Talking VEDS! 1999-D 25c From Denver Mint Production Manager

Well now, we all have her number now. Maybe some of us will call her and see if she'll give us something too.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could take up to 24 hrs. to edit stupid things we say in real life? My apology.

Yes I understand. Took you a while to look at that coin. Your not going to take it out of the bag are you?

CoinMaster,
No way is it coming out of that sealed poly bag. I guess I just never appreciated it until finding it in the box of old business cards. I found other neat cards too.

Joe Rizdy's card was perhaps the coolest. He had it laminated with a 1961-D/D CONECA RPM-047 within. I got three of those in 1999.



I have quite a few other error-variety coin dealer cards. I kind of collect them as I go.

Those are pretty neat. The closet thing I have would be this anniversary card from Virg Marshall:






I have been tempted to pick that cent from the card to see if it is a WAM or not....

CoinMasters,

My favorite collection is made up of numismatic items that were given to me over the years that have some special meaning. Included is a 1959 Mexican 20 centavos that my grandfather gave me when I was about 10. There is a high relief medal from the 1986 Garden State Numismatic Association Convention that Dr. King gave me after we had a long conversation and I admired his collection of Ike dollar Caps and other great errors. Then there is my dad's military medals and his badges from the United Steel Workers Conventions. There really are too many to list in this collection but every piece has a story.

My second favorite collection is a single row coin box jammed full of high-grade Civil War tokens. It's the only set of anything numismatic that my daughter was fascinated with and I'll die with it and pass it on.

There is a Barber half from the 1800s (I forget the date) that my great grandmother was awarded by an Art College in the 1880s for a water color. The half-dollar is engraved like a a love token with her name, the date of the award, what it was for and name of collage. I found a old picture of her in an antique frame and had the Barber half placed in a special Capitol holder I had made up for my dad. I inherited this when he passed on a few years ago. I named my daughter after my great grandmother.

Then there is my metallurgical test patterns; several Dupont tokens, plancehts and coupons; GM Roller Press tokens (one is one of two known that I got from the GM Engineer that made it back in about 1964 -- I just ran into his business card today), the Olin Brass minute man token, Corelay® tokens, etc.

Then there is my 1965 dime struck on a 90% silver planchet and maybe next is my 1992 and 1992-D Close AM cents.

I have other collections that I don't do much with anymore but still appreciate like RPM cents and Laminations on Canadian small cents by date.

Oh for some reason I like the Felix Schlag plaques that the MSNS had made to raise funds to create a memorial for his grave. They made 25 of these with a silver pattern made by Gallery Mint. It's a real nice plaque of large size suitable for hanging on a wall. I bought five of them at $250 each (like I need five!).

I have well over 1000 dies and hubs that I love.

Also and error coin collection that I look at every so often.

I also have a neat collection of Mexican errors and one of Canadian doubled dies.

Last but not least is my numismatic library.

Not all in order of importance.

cwb,
Ya, I get to see it every so often but not so often that it gets boring. It's surprising how many things I find in boxes in my safe that I haven't seen in 10, 15, 20 years. About a month ago when I dug deep there were some items I hadn't seen in 30 years.

It never seemed like a labor of love as I put it together but I really appreciate it today even if it isn't the greatest collection in the world. Just remembered, I enjoy my collection of weird fishing stuff.