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I've seen a number of coins, 5 and 10-cent silver it seems, with reference to the Doaktown Hoard. What and where was this? Part of the reason for asking is because there's a Doaktown in NB.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Cant even find a reference on Google.
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Pillar of the Community
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United States
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There is a reference in the CNA Ebulletin #6, March 10, 2005.
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Thanks for the replies. I did check with the person that made the CNA ebulliten reference and he doesn't recall the hoard either. I do see there's a reference to it in two April 2003 Coin World magazines (online snippet via the Newman Numismatic Portal), but I don't know anyone that would have it lying around and Coin World doesn't seem to have an online archive. |
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Would the RCNA Library have older issues of Coin World available to its members? "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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Could the hoard be fictional in an attempt to add value to otherwise normal coins?
I wouldn't put it past someone.
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The hoard is quite real .
Information would be available
from either Tom Becker or Michael Findlay
if you reached out .
Remember this was covered in some old issues of
Coin World . Access is restricted on NNP though.
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A number of years ago, I used to buy quite a few coins from Tom Becker (coin dealer - New Hampshire). I bought approximately 60 coins from him that were attributed to the Doaktown Hoard. My memory is foggy, but I believe that Tom said that the hoard of coins was found in an old house(?), in Doaktown, New Brunswick. Unfortunately, Tom passed away 5+ years ago. Sandy Campbell was close to Tom. Having known Tom well, and his great knowledge of coins and their provenance, I am sure that Sandy would know the Doaktown Hoard history. I haven't talked with him for some time, I miss the coin shows!
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I was sad when I heard Tom Becker passed (March 2014). After he semi-retired, he found a niche in Canadian coins. He wrote a number of really good articles and experiences as a coin dealer, for the old Canadian Coin Reference Site (CCRS). Some of his stuff was collected in a 1991 book called "Confessions of a Coin Dealer". It was his article on Canadian nickel dollars, that altered my numismatic passion forever... Tom used to sign his digital articles with a photograph. Apologies for the resolution, this is as good as I can find.   "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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Tom was a great guy with a wicked sense of humor. Never met him in person, but we communicated a few times as I was publishing my first two books. I greatly appreciated his wisdom.
He had me in stitches once about readers who feel the need to contact authors with a list of inconsequential typos in a book (minor misspellings, missing commas, etc.). His explanation started like this....
"Rob - Based only on my experience, nothing brings a writer back down to earth like a jealous reader."
Sorry about the off topic post.
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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I also remember Tom Becker from the old CCRS and I did buy coins from him in the past. He was a great guy!
MG
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