Stack's Private Viewing Of Pogue V Sale Lots?

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numismatic student Bedrock of the Community United States 11890 Posts	Posted 02/24/2017 9:20 pm I always thought that one of the coolest experiences in coin collecting was scheduling a private showing of coin lots for sale at auctions run by Stack's. They usher you into a private room and a numismatist wearing white gloves shows you a selection of coins that you can take your time to examine. I remember doing this back when most of the lots were raw. Now that is no longer the case. The showings used to be in NY in their showroom before the auction. Are they still doing this and is anyone doing private showings for lots in Pogue V in Baltimore? Post what you are looking at (especially if it will be the 1804 $1). IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com Report this Post to the Staff

Andrew99 CCF Advertiser United States 1533 Posts	Posted 02/25/2017 08:06 am I went to the Corrado Romano sale at Stacks in '89 and they did the viewing in NYC. Back then they had multiple stations manned by a group of people that handled the viewing. They would bring out a box of the lot range you wanted to look at and let you go through them one by one while they watched you. There was no fanfare around any particular coin. The old man's 1792 silver centered cent was in a box with the other coins in that lot range and if you didn't know what it was, you would never know. Now I guess everything is in a slab which makes it easier and the boxes are PCGS and NGC boxes. I'm sure the 1804 dollar is just another coin in the box. I flew out to NYC for that sale. You didn't used to be able to look at Hi Res images on a computer and bid online, but you had paper catalogs that you wrote in to guide you during the auction as you got to see the lot only while viewing, not while the auction was happening like online participants do now. You had to wait for your coin to show up and not let your attention waiver or you might miss your lot. And you had paddles with your number on it. I haven't held an auction paddle in 20 years. Edited by Andrew99 02/25/2017 08:08 am Report this Post to the Staff
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