What is an "inferior" coin ? They are both 1 ounce gold coins with a face value of $20. Just because the coin had great value in the numismatic...
Nope, Mint officials often were allowed to swap older Saints for newer ones to sell to Philly or NYC collectors. Had been going on for a decade...
It's not so much a question of who is worth watching, it's whether that information will be the SOLE input into one's collecting or investing...
One more thing.....Mint and Treasury officials were certainly aware that 1933 Saints were sold in the 1930's. They saw the advertisements in...
Exchanges of older dates and mintmarks for new releases was common practice at the Philly Mint. If the market value for 1933 Saints wasn't ~ $800...
The Treasury Export License was granted because they had ASSUMED -- incorrectly -- that 1933 Saints had been released. Therefore, the only...
If 10 coins were taken from the Philly Mint, I'd expect there to be a shortfall of 10 ounces of gold. The gold books balanced. The coins were...
That's the same coin as the current one (as it should be -- Stacks/Bowers is behind both coins)....you said that there are pics of a "Farouk" coin...
Well, we have different definitions of the word "stolen." :D
If the CoinWEEK article is correct, it's likely the Kodak-Browning 1933 which was kept from the government after Stack lost his court case in 1950.
Those coins were graded, though they are sitting in Fort Knox, waiting for my associates Pussy Galore and Odd Job to liberate them. :D FWIW, the...
Well, one guy did just that.....Feds didn't know he had the 1933 Saint....and he turned it in voluntarily in 2018 or 2019. :yack:
I'm not sure about that. There might be 1 or 2 and maybe 3 out there....but that's assuming Israel Switt or whoever got an even 25 out of the...
No way.....serious ? I thought the guy was a bigtime coin collector, surely he had people who told him that's something you never do, right ?
They went up like 70-fold from 1970 to 1989.....they even went up 6-fold from the bubble PEAK of 1980 to 1989. Click on this and check out...
Folks, remember Weitzman is NOT a coin collector and didn't even WANT the coin (he donated it to the public). He's only getting it...
Do you have pics of the 2 coins in question, Eddie ? If so, please post. Actually, I have the (alleged) Farouk Coin in the OP so just post...
The Langbord 10 Saints weren't "stolen" -- the government just says they are. The Liberty Nickles, Flying Cents, Indian Head Eagles -- all legal...
I'm not talking about 2 wrongs making 1 right....I'm talking about a legal precedent being used after the fact which the government has done many...
As I've seen posted here from others including BB21.....this coin may or may not be the actual Farouk coin. But whatever coin it is -- Farouk or...
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