leeg

Nice

56 minutes ago, ldhair said:

Thanks Ali and Coinbuf!

Hi all,

    Did a search trying to find my answer with no luck.

I've noticed some set's as Best in Category that are dated 2014. Wondering what the criteria is for that award.

Thank you,

Lee

Update: I found a 57-D in NGC 67RB.  

15 hours ago, RWB said:

Don't really know. But I would like collectors to get the best value for their money - and that means separating the tripe from the prime fillet.

On 2/2/2021 at 4:26 PM, dleonard-3 said:

leeg, When I see nice Lincoln cent photos, I have to compare it to mine...……..Yep! yours is very well struck.  Mine is mushy in the hair details.

 

Thank you kind sir!

Please PM with price.

Thanks,

Lee

On 1/25/2021 at 3:33 PM, RWB said:

Lee, thanks for the support, but it's OK --- questions are part of the feedback from readers. I also use it to help me understand if I have written something that does not make sense to readers. It's too easy to get trapped into one's own thoughts and not realize that the written words fail to actually explain the subject. In a way, I treat questions as a kind of "peer review" so that the next article or book can be clearer and better.

BTW - I really wish I could convince Whitman or someone with the resources to publish your Classic Commemorative book. It is so far beyond anything in print in accuracy, comprehensive treatment, and contextual interest, that keeping it from readers is incomprehensible. But the hobby of money runs on money of the hobby.

Got cha and much thanks!

In my mind all these questions are just "Over the Top."

Roger shouldn't have to answer all these mundane (lacking interest or excitement; dull.) questions. This topic has come up before in this Forum  when the book project first came out.

Roger is a noted author with many "book of the year" awards. It's very simple really: You buy it based on past Numismatic Awards, or you don't. Simple as that.

P.S. Good thing I haven't printed my book.

Sorry all messed up.

A SUPER deal!

The reverse:

On 11/30/2020 at 3:39 PM, rons said:

Got the coins today Lee and they did not disappoint  Thank you

Thanks so much Ron!!

I personally have not found any official documents about the boxes.  QDB said some of the coins were put in red and white boxes. He did not state a reason why.

Courtesy of Stacks Bowers Galleries.

Courtesy of Cradle of America booklet, page 54.

Congressional Authorization Act

[PUBLIC—NO. 687—74^TH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 7690]

AN ACT 

To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city of Albany, New York. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city of Albany, New York, there shall be coined at a mint of the United States to be designated by the Director of the Mint not to exceed twenty-five thousand silver 50-cent pieces of standard size, weight, and composition and of a special appropriate single design to be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but the United States shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage. 

SEC. 2. The coins herein authorized shall bear the date 1936, irrespective of the year in which they are minted or issued, shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value, and shall be issued only upon the request of a committee of not less than three persons duly authorized by the mayor of the city of Albany, New York, upon payment by it of the par value of such coins, but not less than twenty-five thousand such coins shall be issued to it at any one time and no such coins shall be issued after the expiration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Such coins may be disposed of at par or at a premium by such committee, and the net proceeds shall be used by it in defraying the expenses incidental and appropriate to the commemoration of such event. 

SEC. 3. All laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of coins, for the prevention of debasement or counterfeiting, for the security of the coins, or for any other purposes, whether such laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the coinage herein authorized.

Approved, June 16, 1936.

The end.

21 hours ago, RWB said:

LeeG has extensive material about all the classic commemoratives - far richer, deeper and more engaging that ANY prior work by ANY author. What is so disappointing is the unwillingness of a hobby publisher to print and distribute his work. I realize that there are likely more Commemorative coin books per collector than any other subject, but this one is exceptional and makes all the others instantly obsolete.

Whitman Publishing LLC -- are you listening?

[PS: If I won the lottery I'd publish it in a minute...! ]

With a lot of help from you!

Original Envelope of issue. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions.

    Lathrop’s specialty was animals; thus a beaver gnaws on a maple branch amid statutory inscriptions on the obverse of this important contribution to American numismatics. They appear, presumably, because the beaver is on the seal of the city and the maple is the New York state tree. The design would then seem to become an allegory of municipal government feeding on the rule of the state!

    In order to appreciate the scene on the opposite side, Arlie Slabaugh’s description of it must be quoted in full: 

    Reverse, Peter Schuyler and Robert Livingston, secretary, taking leave of Governor Thomas Dongan in New York. Schuyler is holding the charter. All are dressed in the style of 1686 when the charter for the city was signed by the Governor. Above the group, an eagle with outstretched wings, with the word LIBERTY in minute letters immediately above the eagle. A small pine tree appears behind Governor Dongan at left, which, with the pine cones at lower sides between lettering, and the maple keys (which contain the seeds) in a similar position on the obverse; represent the growth and fertility of the city.¹⁵

    Enough said! That the coin as a whole has considerable appeal can be counted as a credit to the good training and innate taste of the artist, who was able to work in all these allusions to local aspirations and a bygone event with modest, positive precision. The tiny LIBERTY and the miniscule eagle spreading its wings over the three colonial officials are doubtless concessions to federal iconographic tradition. The bird’s posture recalls similar compositions, such as the eagle of Zeus or Nike on coins struck under the auspices of imperial Rome.”8

     “Many of the coins were offered for sale at $2.00 each in official original holders, which pictures the obverse and reverse of the coin, plus the word ‘Albany’ centered above the photographs. Page two of the holder presents us with a short history about Albany, while page three contains five slots in which one to five coins were placed when filling an order. Page four or the back of the holder was blank.

    The official mailing envelopes were imprinted: ‘ALBANY DONGAN CHARTER COMMITTER, 60 STATE STREET, ALBANY, N.Y.’ The rarer vehicles are cardboard boxes which housed a single coin. Such was distributed by ‘THE NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF ALBANY’ in a red box with a red velour interior and split pouch for the coin. The bank’s coat of arms imprinted in gold ink graces the top cover, as well as a white box with blue velour interior, but with blue ink. When encountering the above mentioned holders, simply remember that today (2007), it is this special type of holder(s) which determines the worth of a coin-holder offering. The above boxes housing a MS-64 and MS-65 coin brought $4,370 as a pain in the American Numismatic Rarities auction on March 8, 2005. Holders can be valued at $75 to $125, with original official mailing envelope, $125 to $175. The rarer boxes have brought between $350 and $1,000. Value is based on condition.”9

¹⁵ Slabaugh, Vol. II, p. 113.

⁸ Numismatic Art In America; Aesthetics of the United States Coinage, 2nd edition, Cornelius Vermeule, Whitman Publishing, LLC, 2007, p. 184-185.

⁹ The Commemorative Trail, 2007 Vol. 24, No. 2 of 3, p. 13.

Original Holder of issue. Courtesy of a collector who wishes to remain anonymous. BlueCC image.