Q. David Bowers Shares His Experiences With Louis Eliasberg

that will probably be the only one collection ever in history to accomplish what he did. If you think about it it would take a normal man 3 lifetimes to be able to accomplish anywhere near EVERY DATE/MM of EVERY coin ever minted by the US. Even if you accepted junk coins (or the worst of the known examples known) you would still never be able to do so. There was over 4422 coins in his collection which consisted of 1074 Gold Coins (which included the unique 1870-S Three Dollar gold piece and the excessively rare 1822 Half Eagle), 1348 colonials, patterns, copper coinage, nickel coinage and silver coinage from Half Dimes through dimes which of course had the Gem Proof 1913 Liberty nickel, 2000 silver coinage from Twenty Cent Pieces through silver dollars and miscellaneous items from the collection including a Proof 1804 dollar and a Gem Proof 1885 Trade dollar