The Fairmont Collection/Hoard

Apparently there were 147 Double Eagles in the collection; this Hendricks subset may or may not have included them all when it went up for sale earlier this year:

https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/...es-20-double-eagles-from-fairmont-collection/

 

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One more than I have at any time

 

i would love to afford a coin from this collection but i can barely afford my rent its too dang high

 

Update on the Fairmont Hoard...another sale.....they go on and on and on....outside of mega-collections like Eliasberg which took multi-year time outs on their sales....I can't recall another Hoard going for this long.

https://raregoldcoins.com/blog/2023...t-the-most-recent-fairmont-sale-november-2023

The 1983 El Salvador (~49,000 coins) and 1996 Wells Fargo No Motto Saints Hoards (~19,900 coins) each got sold within a few years from what I have read.

 

Fairmont Collection/Hoard @ Doug Winter Website: Guest blogger Richard Radick (must be a collector or dealer) has done a spectacular 6-part (so far ! ) deep dive into the Fairmont Collection, focusing on the 8,000 or so graded/certified coins and their impact on the various coins and grades.

It's very complicated...involves math and lots of assumptions...but it's the BEST (only ?) deep-dive that attempts to pierce the veil of secrecy that has surrounded a massive hoard (or group of collections, multiple bank holdings, whatever) that have been merged together into what must be the LARGEST hoard/collection in my records.

They've been selling this for 7 years now....beats 1908 No-Motto, SSCA, etc.

Anyway, here's the deep dive. You can read the individual parts solo but I think you learn the most and best by starting with Part 1 (which was a year ago in December 2023) so that you have the entire picture:

https://raregoldcoins.com/blog?category=Market Blog

 

Update over at DW site on the Carson City coins of the Fairmont Collection.

https://raregoldcoins.com/blog/2025/2/21/fairmont-gold-pieces-part-ix-the-carson-city-coins

GDJMSP....have you been following how the Guest Blogger has been using the PCGS Population Reports to construct "time series" and estimate the size of the Fairmont Collection/Hoard ?

Fascinating stuff.

 

I have seen some of these coins on the bay bringing big premiums !

 

Fairmont Collection/Hoard is over...no more sales.

8,300 PCGS-certified coins.....over 400,000 gold coins in total.....coins believed rare WERE in fact rare; very few found like some rare Carson City's......coins believed to be pretty common were in fact even MORE common in MS and lower grades.

9-part series over at Doug Winter includes fascinating but detailed statistical probability analysis trying to determine the origins of the hoard and the coins we could expect to see and have seen.

 

Did they have cup holders back then?

 

I'm not sure what you are asking....

 

The blue thunder car of @LakeEffect Sorry I didn't make myself clear, no offense to the post.

 

The Ford Fairmont? They sure did...

 

Wow, that interior looks great for its age. Thanks for the pic.

 

a true classic

 

Wow! A stick shift on a car and an ashtray? I'm so lucky to see it for my own eyes.

 

And a clean cup holder. No coins in there!