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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4496259, member: 66&quot;]I know it was still somewhat common in the early to mid 80&#039;s and much more commonly done earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the most part making electrotypes went out of fashion in the early 20th century.&nbsp; It really isn&#039;t the easiest thing to do.&nbsp; The foil pressings let you have a record of your own collection, you could get pressings of famous or high grade pieces you didn&#039;t have or die stages that you didn&#039;t have.&nbsp; The plastic 2X2&#039;s made the pressing easy to handle or mail.&nbsp; So you wanted to get an attribution confirmed.&nbsp; You could mail the coin and risk losing it, you could get of cameras and shoot a roll or two , have the developed and printed an hope to have some good enough to send, or you could quickly make a pressing put it in a 2X2 and mail it.&nbsp; Remember this was an era when there really wasn&#039;t much in the way of good reference images to compare your coin to.&nbsp; The pressing also had the advantage of being three dimensional like the coin, which is better than a two dimensional image.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the real problems with the pressing was getting the coin out with damaging the foil impression.&nbsp; The foil really conforms to the surface of the coin and it&#039;s like a vacuum seal.&nbsp; Some of the pressings up above were obviously damaged in trying to remove the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could make pressings of electrotypes, but you would want to keep the pressure lower than you would doing one on a copper coin.&nbsp; Do multiple light pressings rather than one hard one.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have all FIVE.&nbsp; Dan&#039;s first sale was in September of 2009.&nbsp; At EAC in May of that year Goldberg Auctions had &quot;prototype&quot; catalogs for that first sale that they were distributing to attendees at the convention.&nbsp; That catalog was not in the same format as the one finally decided to use for the sale.&nbsp; I got one and Dan signed it for me.&nbsp; The only way to get that catalog was to be at EAC that year.&nbsp; They also had all of the Holmes early dates there for viewing plus the unique 1793 NC-5 on loan from the ANS collection.&nbsp; The only time EVERY early date variety has been in the same place at the same time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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