Reverse proof Roosevelt dime most significant coin of century.

Nothing like lumping everyone in a certain profession together and then having a negative attitude about that group; you are a very kind and courteous person. Regardless, I find it fascinating that you buy at estate auctions yet claim to never deal with a dealer when in fact estate auctions are dealers.

 

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No, the dealers (and around here we all know them well by sight) are the guys sitting three seats over at the very same auction I'm at, with exactly the same kind of bidder number I have. It's not even hard to figure their desired retail markup - all you do is watch slow starting lots and see at what price they bail.

 

If you sell a coin then you act as a dealer.

 

We're not talking "coin auctions" here, sonny. We're talking back country rural areas with an auctioneer who will be selling tobacco lots in September. We're talking a locality where more homes sell by auction than through realtors.

 

It's an estate auction likely run by a licensed company to sell used or new goods at auction. That's a dealer. You can try to hide behind semantics all you want, but your invective shines through and it is not a handsome look.

 

Whatever. Oh, by the way, I also spent over 35 (redid the math) years in the photography field, so yeah, I don't need any numismatic photography either.

 

Okay?

 

It frankly never occurred to me that "numismatic photography" could ever be its own "thing". Congrats on that at least. Well marketed.

 

Sarcasm! The only way to communicate!

 

Just sayin', I've been photographing coins on slides with a Micro-Nikkor since the 1970's and now it's a whole separate profession? Who knew?

 

Auctioneers: All the buying opportunity of a coin dealer, just a whole lot less attitude, pretense and abuse.

 

Though I have been involved in photography myself, off and on, since the late 1970s, I can't claim to have been clever enough to start this niche. There are, however, at least two wonderful books on the subject. One by Gerald Hoberman titled The Art of Coins and Their Photography and the other by my friend Mark Goodman aptly titled Numismatic Photography. The Hoberman book might be from the 1970s so it is getting a bit long in the tooth while the Goodman book is recent.

Some people go to photographers for family portraits because they do not want to take them on their own or they do not want to invest in the equipment; some people buy vegetables at a farmer's market because they are not inclined to grow their own; some folks go to a local mechanic or Midas shop to get the oil changed in their car because they might have no interest in doing so themselves while others use a photographer for images of their coins for the same, or similar reasons. It's just a service that many folks offer to various degrees of thoroughness.

 

Oh sure, and from what I see, you're very very good at it. (My avatar pic is a "selfie" done with Novatron lights and Portra 160 film in a Hasselblad.) You've stumbled across a guy who TRIES to do as much as possible himself. I grow my own veggies AND do the farmer's market. I change my own oil. I represent myself in court. I win there. I only wish I could do my own surgery. "Suture self, I'd call it." Something deeply ingrained in me makes me want to avoid middlemen whenever possible.

 

That's no excuse!

 

Thank you! Good shot for a selfie, too.

 

This thread has derailed a bit off topic. So to bring it back a bit, I would just like to say that I think the RP Rosies will fall in line with the other significant pattern coins of the 18th century. This coin will be highly sought after in the future. How many will survive? This is a coin to put away and let it appreciate over time.

 

Well, it's now about 5 years and one cerebral hemorrhage out of date.

 

No way. The first part of your prediction is hogwash. The last line is spot on. These can never be of pattern level. Speaking strictly for me, the W regular proof is the better piece than the Philly RP. I think RP's are a silly fad. "Colored coin light" is how I view 'em.

 

Bkozak33 is my hero and he's never wrong, and he's always serious, and right. Always right.

 

Hey! I resemble that remark.
It all depends on what you stack and when...
...and this coming from someone whose mood sign is "educated".