It’s nice work if you can get it.. The June 2012 edition of Coinworld has a nice cometary piece by Q. David Bowers which bares noting for a number of reason. Now, to my knowledge, Bowers need to produce a monthly article for Coinworld, which is often not easy to do. The need to meet a deadline with a new topic is a daunting task and not easy. This months article was called “Cherry pick for quality”, but I’m not certain that it reaches its target audience which is likely new to middle collectors. Bowers puts forth a meandering memoir of his collecting history starting in 1952, and tells the story of his relationship with a bank and cherry picking through rolls of Lincoln cents, eventually acquiring a near perfect collection of cents minus the 1909 VDB S cent.. But then the disconnect begins. Because when Q. David Bowers decides to cherry-pick, it is not like you and I. Bowers, off offhandedly, proceeds to tel the story of his desire to put together a cet of PROOF 65 RED and Brown examples of Indian Head Cents. Say what? Is Bowers going to look thought a hundred thousand Lincoln rolls to cherry pick top echelon Proof Indian Heads? No. Will he sift through thousands of Estate Collections.... No. Will he advertise of select pieces in Coinworld and Cointalk... No. Bowers talks to the lovely Melissa Karstedt from the Stacks office in New Hampshire, to do the cherry picking for him through nearly ever collection brought to Stacks retail galleries and endless numbers of coin shows. I’ll tell yah, its good work if you can get it.
It is not unusual for very high end collectors to use brokers to acquire the coins that they want. I, on the other hand, enjoy the hunt the most.
But he is saying that he is having a good time cherry picking. He might be picking cherries but none of them are Indian Head Cents.
That is Christine's daughter. Christine has been in numismatics for a very long time, at a number of different places if memory serves, and Christine is very nice (I've never met Melissa). Ruben, I know you are only joking, but I find your insinuations concerning Melissa to be rather distasteful.
I meant nothing about Melisa, other than she is the one actually cherry picking all the cents and she has a great job. I thought they were sisters. See what i know.
If you think that his insinuations were distasteful, then be glad that you can't read my mind. What's going on in there would floor you!
