I found this in a GSA box. I don't own the copyright to it, but I'm not entirely sure it actually is subject to copyright law. I've scanned the two sides of the GSA order form for everyone to see. I hope it doesn't violate copyright law, as I'm posting this for educational purposes. There should be three images in total, as I couldn't fit the entire side on my flatbed.
Yeah the offer was good from June 1 to July 31, 1973. Many of the collectors here knew about them and some of them were lucky enough to buy some of them. I have one in the original GSA packaging, but I paid alot more for mine. :thumb:
That I believe is the order form from the second sale. Of special interest is selection #2, the uncirculated Morgans and Peace dollars from other mints. There were the coins put in the hard plastic holders that just said United States uncirculated silver dollar. The ad calls for Morgans AND Peace dollars but as far as I know there is not a single Peace dollar known in a hard pack holder. They are only known in the soft plastic holders that sold in selection #1 for $3 apiece. if a hard pack Peace ever does show up it would be something to rival the single Seated dollar that sold in the sale in a $3 softpack (Which still exists in the original GSA holder.)
*fume* I was born at the wrong time in history. Though granted $30 then is about $150 in today's dollars.
Do you (or anyone else for that matter) know of or have any pictures of this Seated Liberty Dollar in the GSA softpack or know where to look? I went to the eBay auction page and the pictures are no longer hosted. Nothing was to be found on google images, checked a few other forums but I'm only a member here so search functionality is limited to what google can find.
No reason to kick yourself over it. I got a couple of these at about age 10 or so when the sale occured. For $30 you typically got an 1883 or 1884-cc in MS 63/64. Well using your figure of $30 then being $150 now....you're not too far away from being able to buy it, $250 should do it easily . You didn't miss something like buying stock in Microsoft, Walmart, Home Depot or something like that. It was definetly cool at the time though ! About the best semi-modern deal I can think off is to go back to 1955 when you could easily buy all the 1955 DD cents you wanted at 25 cents each. Errors were just a novelty and that was the grandaddy of them all.
For anyone interested I run www.gsadollars.com I have a section of the site with history of the hoard and pictures of some of the original advertising/order forms.
