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Valued Member
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I've been a coin dealer for many many years and in the early 70's I had the pleasure, while setting up my coin selling tables all over Michigan, of having Ken Potter as one of my customers on a regular basis. He ran a mail order biz then BTI (before the internet) and was always looking for RPM's, laminations, DD's, etc for his customers. One day in Dearborn at the Carriage House he came up to my table and was all excited. He showed me a 1936 Lincoln Cent he just bought for 10 cents in a junk box. At first glance it was "Ho-Hum" but then I noticed what he was talking about. It was a FULL double die just as strong as the famous 1955 DDO. I never knew one existed until he showed it to me. What a find for 10 cents. At the time he said he should be able to get a couple hundred dollars for it in his mailer. Ken was a real nice guy and always had his small (size of a soda straw) magnifier to look at all my Lincoln cents. Just thought some of you error collectors would like to hear an old timers story. Peace!  |
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United States
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I sure wish I could have started back in the 70's. Good story!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great story...the best part of collecting is finds like that. Perhaps he found the 1936P-1DO-001  |
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United States
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Yes, I would be excited, too! I might not pee my pants, but it would be close!  Thanks for sharing. Dick |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Great story, thanks for sharing and welcome to CC!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi, Ken still is a Great guy:-)...It was in the 1980s that I first met Ken (not in person) but I forget if it was snail mail or email but he was one of the first people to teach me what a Machine Doubling damaged coin looked like. In fact, he sent me a BU 1956 D Lincoln that had severe Machine Doubling damage on the reverse. As I got further into the hobby, I sent Ken several coins to examine when I thought that they might be new die varieties. He always went out of if his way to be helpful and we still email back and forth about once a week, on average. Thanks for the great story at the start of this thread! Bill Edited by foundinrolls
10/19/2008 6:59 pm
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Thanks for the replies peeps.  Another weird sidelite of that particular show. First of all my birthdate is 1936.....same year of that coin Ken showed me. Also, another old time coin dealer (Les Durant of the famous Durant family) had a dealer table at the show also. I bought my first 1936 proof set in Capital Plastic holder from Les at that show for $1000. He had 2 sets, 1 had a bad hairlined half, the other was a Gem. I bought the Gem set and just sold it last year for $6700 to a local collector. My, how time flys by when your having fun.  Peace to all! |
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Great story.
Thanks for telling.
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Pillar of the Community
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For those who think in strange ways....like I do on occasion.
Picking 1972 as a date in the early 70s and taking inflation into consideration; The 1936 proof set came out ahead of inflation between 1972 and 2008. Anything over $5140.00 beat out the inflation rate:-)
Bill
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Ken is a great guy, I have had the chance to talk to him many times and get to know him on a personal level. Ken is a unique person thats for sure and is not above sharing his knowledge in error coins. I watched him photo some coins a while back in Redford Mi. they (the photos)later showed up in Coin World. He has taken photos of some of my coins and written articles about them as well. |
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Thanks for shearing Jerry  regards Harry |
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