I recently purchased a nice hoard of error coins from a local dealer. Ive been buying his error coins every weekend for the past few weeks. Theyre all raw ungraded, but most are all in mint state. Whoever took the time to find all these errors and attribute them put a lot of work in. Yesterday the dealer went on to tell me how he had purchased all of the errors from his friend Arnold Margolis. He told me he has recently passed away. When I got home I did some research and found that Arnold was a famous error coin expert. He wrote books and even had a magazine called Error Trends in the 70's. I had known these error coins I was purchasing were from somebody's personal collection but not a famous error expert! The dealer that Im purchasing them from knows he has been giving me amazing deals on them. He is pretty old and I feel bad that he isnt selling a lot of his coins because Im sure he doesnt use the internet at all. There must be so many dealers like this guy all around the country.
My condolences to his family. May he rest in peace. I happen to have one of the Error Trends from May, 2007. It was a freebie from the FUN Show, but I never got around to subscribing. Chris
