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Edited by Sid Belzberg
03/30/2019 2:44 pm
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I would love to own that coin!
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I for one wants to thank you for releasing your collection back into the public after your enjoyment, after someone else buys a coin especially this historic coin. it's their to do whatever, even cleaning. Although I cringe at this thought
Edited by john100
03/30/2019 2:59 pm
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Certainly legally it is their right. I always viewed myself as a temporary custodian knowing that I don't live forever and would consider it inconsiderate to ruin historical objects.
Edited by Sid Belzberg
03/30/2019 3:19 pm
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Welcome to CCF Sid. I never had the opportunity to meet you, but I have sat around the pubs at coin shows in Toronto with Bob Forbes and the others, hearing the stories of coin shows past with you and the coins you would pass around amongst the beers. For the sake of our members here, bosox was not mincing words about buyers beware. The photos speak a thousand words, and seeing this makes me very, very sad, for Canadian numismatics: Before: https://coins.ha.com/itm/canada/wor.../312-15545.sAfter: https://coins.ha.com/itm/canada/wor...ption-071515 "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Roger .. I thought that you were with us that day at one of the early CCRS gathering. Mr Belzberg was there for the photo.  |
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Bill, I moved to Ottawa from Edmonton in September of 2008. My first Torex was the June show in 2009, after I had met and gotten to know Jaime.... That said, I had been on CCRS since early 2005, until, well - when we all left.
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Okie - had some U. S. Coast Guard bookends that day. I think my wife took the pic, but maybe not. Those were the really fun TOREX days. :)
http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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Yes, and Sid let us look through some of his eye-dazzlers.
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BTW - regarding the Cook coins, IMHO it would have been easier to take two or three million dollars in cash and light it on fire. Probably the same result.
http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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M. Belzberg! |
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I have not seen, nor held, the 1911 dollar. I will defer to those that have, and who have a lot more knowledge than I, BUT, coin photography can be a really tricky thing (although I image anyone bidding on such a coin would likely view it "hands on") case in point, all 3 of these are the same coin:  |
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Wade, agreed. If it were one or two, I might scratch my head. We are talking many dozens. IMO, no way it just the photography.
http://www.victoriancent.com2011 & 2025 Fred Bowman Award Winner, 2020 J. Douglas Ferguson Award Winner, & 2022 Paul Fiocca Award Winner. Life Member of RCNA.
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Wow. I could not imagin cracking out such valuable coins and messing around with them. The 1911 dollar looks like a coin that wouldnt make it into a PCGS slab now. All the ungraded large cents have wierd colours to them. It will be intresting to see what the market does. Cleaned or not some coins are so rare maybe it wont matter. At the end of the day, its your collection to what you like with?
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