Dan controls the name and title of "Clark Gruber" and is the Denver/Colorado area. He has struck a number of pieces with Clark Gruber...
Hey Dennis! Thank You for all your dedication and hard work posting. You must have an enormous Vault room. Nice collection!
Thanks, but... Clark, Gruber & Company was the actual predecessor of the Denver mint, so if Carr "controls the name and title of "Clark Gruber"" it's just more hokey nonsense to me. As far as I know the actual Clark Gruber only produced gold coins and nothing in silver, so that adds to my being perplexed. Collect what you want to I guess.
@ KBBPLL, Collect what you want to I guess... That's what it's all about, collect what brings you joy.
From the Moonlight Mint home page http://www.moonlightmint.com/ As of August 2013, Moonlight Mint is also officially doing business in the state of Colorado under the registered name “Clark Gruber & Company”. The internet domains “Clark-Gruber.com” and “ClarkGruber.com” now point here to MoonlightMint.com. The firm of Clark Gruber & Co. established operations in Denver during the Colorado Gold Rush. Beginning in 1860, Clark Gruber began converting miner’s gold into coins which were readily accepted and circulated locally in the Denver area and beyond. The firm was so well-respected that the US Government bought them out in the mid-1860s, first running the operation as an assay office and then eventually converting it into the Denver Mint. In an ironic twist, in 2001 the Denver Mint sold one of their surplus Grabener coin presses which became a core asset of Moonlight Mint in 2008, and now a reanimated Clark Gruber & Company. Clark Gruber coins are today highly-prized by collectors for their rarity and history. The tradition of Clark Gruber is now carried on.
I don’t believe anybody confuses his later iteration of Clark Gruber with the originals at all. Dan’s coins are his alone but IMHO well executed, faithful to the area, and show innovation. Besides what ordinary collector can buy original CG pieces at the prices now fetched. Perhaps leave it at that and appreciate or not his work.
