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<p>[QUOTE="harley bissell, post: 2854741, member: 88212"]Steve Tannenbaum was a famous token collector who was murdered by a hit and run driver in New York City. His rarities are slabbed as his. I had the opportunity to purchase twenty of the Menter tokens from his collection and bought them. Another ten went for slightly higher than I bid for them. This is a small set and I didn't know that anyone had made a complete set. I wanted the ones from my state the most so bid high for them. I also purchased the entire transportation token collection of noted Indiana collector William Bridge so that I could strip out the Indiana tokens and sell / trade the other states. Because he is so well known I replaced my tokens with his and only added what he was missing to my collection in my own holders. I bought the library of noted indiana token collector/dealer George Conder to use as research for my own token catalog. Later this year I will sell all of the state catalogs in one lot and keep only the first edition Indiana by Wagaman. It is in bad shape but it has been marked to show every token in the Conder collection. So the answer is yes. I gather pedigree coins and tokens if I find them. If they are from a famous enough person I put the coin and holder together in a 3 x 3 flip to preserve them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="harley bissell, post: 2854741, member: 88212"]Steve Tannenbaum was a famous token collector who was murdered by a hit and run driver in New York City. His rarities are slabbed as his. I had the opportunity to purchase twenty of the Menter tokens from his collection and bought them. Another ten went for slightly higher than I bid for them. This is a small set and I didn't know that anyone had made a complete set. I wanted the ones from my state the most so bid high for them. I also purchased the entire transportation token collection of noted Indiana collector William Bridge so that I could strip out the Indiana tokens and sell / trade the other states. Because he is so well known I replaced my tokens with his and only added what he was missing to my collection in my own holders. I bought the library of noted indiana token collector/dealer George Conder to use as research for my own token catalog. Later this year I will sell all of the state catalogs in one lot and keep only the first edition Indiana by Wagaman. It is in bad shape but it has been marked to show every token in the Conder collection. So the answer is yes. I gather pedigree coins and tokens if I find them. If they are from a famous enough person I put the coin and holder together in a 3 x 3 flip to preserve them.[/QUOTE]
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