Johnston2

1 hour ago, Revenant said:

I've always found the NORFED stuff / story interesting but they aren't that pretty and I just can't justify the premiums people want for them. Personally, while interesting his plan wasn't bright - there was never any chance the gov't would let him get away with that.

To a lot of people they stopped making coins in 1964.

They now make tokens.

I had come to this forum about a year about a year ago with an interesting bullion round at the flea market.  I didn't really know much, people threw around the names Bernard von Nothaus and Daniel Carr, and it got me really into this stuff.  What I had gotten was a creation of Bernard von NotHaus with a TWENTY denomination on it and something that wasn't hawaiian nor a NORFED product, which is somewhat unusual for him.

I sold the bullion round I had bought for 20 for a hundred-something dollars.  That had me looking up stuff on the Liberty Dollar encyclopedia.  I had the owner of the Liberty Dollar encyclopedia contact Bernard von Nothaus for the following mintage information:

"5000 one ounce silvers were minted in 2009
200 #ed and gold plated
100 #ed
50 hallmarked with my hallmark" (B inside of a triangle inside of a circle done with a metal stamp as far as I can tell)

That's straight from the horse's mouth.  There seems to be an abundance of these coins in Florida.

This is the hallmarked coin what which I pried from the flea market dealer for 70 after explaining what they are and getting to know the fella:



That is ONE out of FIFTY TOTAL PRODUCED!   I personally would let go of this coin for 300.