GoldFinger1969

We're giving you our expert/best opinion. If you disagree, go and sell the coins and tell us what they sold for. They look like regular, circulated Ike dollars. Each worth $1.00...maybe a few pennies more to a beginner collector.

I hope that clown who thinks his circulated Ikes are worth thousands each didn't give you a stroke !!

Just curious, your name isn't Ralph Wiggum is it

The difference is that the majority of YouTube viewers and posters are not experts in coins, they are experts in social media and generating clicks. We are experts in coins who share our knowledge. If you don't choose to believe us, go back to YouTube and send them money for coins marked up by 100-1,000%. We'll see you again in 5 years when you tell us you should have listened to us in the first place.

I'm not sure what specifically is bothering you, but I understand how you want to get away from troubles and not find more here. But you don't have to read posts with conflict between dueling heavyweights just like you can ignore threads on coins you have no interest in. I wish there were MORE activity on the threads/coins I have interest in -- I recall before a major layout change that these forums seemed to be more heavily-trafficked -- but I can't control it. So I probably check in 4-5 times for every 1 time I post or read a response to something that interests me. Hope you stay or at least lurk from time-to-time, Mo.

Well, in the 1929 Saint Hoard Hoax, it appears he might be blameless as Fenton told Gillio who told Breen. If anything, Fenton and Gillio started it.

Just to be clear.....so these are ACCOUNTED for 1927-D's that were destroyed in the 1930's....or could still be out there ?

Congrats, but I can't help but wonder if the fact that you are NEW was a reason for the surge in traffic ? Don't get me wrong, I HOPE you are right and that there are alot more coin collectors 2 years after the pandemic than back in late-2019. But as RWB says, we need to see it last. In any event, I wish you continued success and hope what you are experiencing is part of a much larger trend, one which I lean to, too. Could it be dealers looking for inventory or is it end-collectors ? Thoughts ? Yeah, that's what I've heard and read: there's no inventory. So that DOES kind of lead credence to the fact that rising prices are not increasing dealer supply because end-use/end-collector demand IS RISING. Which is good. Again...let's see it persist, ESPECIALLY once the pandemic is in the rear-view mirror with dozens of deaths daily instead of hundreds or thousands.

Found the details while doing some research in the HA archives:"Clarification of a false rumor of a hoard was first published in Stack's Eldorado Sale (5/2009). That correction bears repeating, as the story has made its way into the numismatic media on several occasions as truth. One false rumor was seized upon by the numismatic press through the prolific writings of Walter Breen. Back in 1984 noted English dealer Steve Fenton sold a 1929 double eagle to Ron Gillio. Steve then played a little joke on Ron by telling him he had found a small hoard of 40 1929 double eagles and was unloading them as quickly as possible. Ron told this to Walter Breen and the English Hoard of 40 pieces was born."

In the immortal words of Maxwell Smart, Agent 86.....I got as far as "This should be good enough....."

What kind of print run are we talking about -- 5,000 copies ?

I don't even understand what you described.....

There's NOTHING since 1959 ?

So "adjustments" means filing away excess metal content ? I think Roger (or someone else) wrote an article that referenced filing adjustments for Saints, do I have that right ?

It's also possible that if this coin IS special that the documentation and "story" behind it being special was transmitted ORALLY overe the years instead of in-writing, right ? Collectors/people in the 1800's probably told specific facts rather than had it in print. And photography wasn't widely available until the 1860's anyways.

Thanks, I thought there was a conflict. So....there remains the possibility that twenty-five 1927-D's are out there, right ?

Roger, on Page 492 you state that the $500 in gold coin was 25 pieces and was sent to the Treasurer in Washington, DC. Which narrative is your latest thoughts -- the book implying 25 DEs or the post above where you state denomination is unknown ?

Thanks....and I take it there are about 140 survivors so time of striking is key to value, right ?

Without getting my head taken off....what's the story with how this is or might be the first -- or one of the first -- silver dollars ever struck ? Has the pedigree of ownership been established? Where in the timeline do things get hazy ?

Did you ask how they found the site ? Was it folks from these forums ?

She may have been confused. $0.25/hour net is feasible. I don't think she meant to "lie" by saying $0.25 a week because that works out to a 1 cent an hour or less....something from the 1600's or so.

$4,000 was big money for a Chrysler back then. I remember my mother got a Plymouth Duster in 1972 or 1973 for like $2,500.

The NEWBIE section here seems very active. Hopefully, they'll also post and inquire in ours here. Need more threads to have longer, wider, more voluminous back-and-forths like the RWB Saints thread.

The site looks good. Nice interface, minimal clutter. I like it ! 1 glitch...when I hit GOLD COINS nothing comes up. If you don't have any, then something should say "No Inventory At The Current Time" or something like that.

Accoding to the BLS Handbook of Labor Statistics, the average textile worker in the U.S. made about $0.42/hour in 1940. The rate was about $0.45 in the North and $0.37 in the South. $0.25 an hour -- net -- was possible after taxes and other deductions for smaller mills or companies.