Hi everyone I was just wondering if any of you had a favorite coin collector or collection. Like Louis Eliasberg who assembled a collection of every single US coin--only one to have ever done so to my knowledge--but unfortunately he dies 30+years ago.
Eliasberg obviously achieved every collector's dream by getting every single coin. However, I don't think they're are that many high profile collections out there today.
There's one fellow I recall who collected coins and was good friends with my dad as well back in the 1960s and 1970s. His name was Sherman E. Clark and he had what I would call a "Wheel Horse Collection". He was pretty well known around Leon County down in Texas as a collecter and often gave presentations at the local schools Centerville, Madisonville, Crockett, etc. I recall a couple of times our families would get together for cookouts and those two would actually get a few beers in them and play poker with coins from their collections!!! Nothing of real value, just silver dimes, quarters, and buffalo nickels. Sherman seemed to have everything from ArrowHeads to Rare Books. I remember he gave me and my little brother each a 1909-S Lincoln Cent, he had like a roll of them. A very generous man who sadly passed away much too young back in 1985 at 63. Take Care Bone
I would say that I admire Eliasberg for what he accomplished, but I still think that I am impressed with what I have managed to put together. I'm my own hero in that I too want to have a collection that will standout... But Eliasberg is still really awesome.
Sure there are, you just don't hear that much about them until they go up for auction. Of course if you watch the big auctions you can see who is accumulating what
