Great to see you having fun, I hope you remonstrated with NGC about your recent experience but I guess it would be water off a ducks back to them. I will certainly buy coins in NGC holders but never use them again in case I pass away waiting for them. What really impresses me about FUN, which you really share and portray, is that you can literally stumble across anything there! Love your Cart wheel Twopence, I have one but with some edge knocks not as good as yours. A Christmas read for me was Mathew Boulton and the Soho Mint which I recommend. I also found the FUN people really accommodating and the exhibits fascinating. Park in the wrong place though and you sure wear out some shoe leather! Tell us more and thank you for sharing.
Mine was a sliced sirloin. I forget what Randy’s giant slab o’ meat was. Porterhouse, maybe? Brontosaurus?
STOP REPEATING THAT DEBUNKED BULL **** The coins were struck from 75 Mexican silver dollars that Thomas Jefferson had deposited in the mint to be coined. He then picked them up before leaving for his summer trip back to Monticello. https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/8392/ https://blog.money.org/coin-collecting/history-of-the-1792-disme
Ahhh… I thought that might have been another numismatic myth, but wasn’t sure. That’s why I stuck the word “allegedly” in there. Too bad the facts have to get in the way of a good story, huh. I wondered about that. PS- the Jefferson story is almost as good, though.
I have not been to the NGC table yet, but will go there to submit some stuff. Update: I did go on Sunday. I did meet David Vagi of NGC Ancients, while we were at Tom Wood’s Coins of the Holy Land table. I thought, “hey, why does this guy look familiar?” Then I realized I’d seen him not only in some NGC videos on YouTube, but also on an episode of Pawn Stars as well, where he played himself (one of the experts Rick called in). He looked at my Twelve Caesars set, which I had brought along for show n’ tell.
It gets better. If you read the ledger, the first half dismes were spent that night at a coaching inn, almost certainly as a tip to the stablehands. Reading between the lines, they would have been African-Americans, most likely slaves, possibly freedmen. That's right, the first US silver coins! AND there was a small ceremonial striking in October, but the dies had rusted by then. This is the source of most high-grade half dismes. A well-circulated half dismes thus almost certainly was physically handled by Jefferson.
And it looks Delicious! Delmonico : Delmonico steak (/dɛlˈmɒnɪkoʊ/) is one of several cuts of beef (usually ribeye), cut thickly as popularized by Delmonico's restaurant in New York City during the mid-19th century.[1][2] The term applies to the cut, not its preparation. In the mid 19th century it was Delmonico’s practice to serve whatever the butcher thought was best that night as its "Delmonico" steak.[3] It was accompanied by Delmonico potatoes, a serving of mashed potatoes topped with grated cheese and buttered breadcrumbs and baked until browned. A Delmonico steak is often considered to be cut from the first 3" of the chuck eye.[citation needed] In practice, various other cuts of steak are called Delmonico, with regional variation in the United States. It may simply be any thick-cut steak.[4]
Yep. OK, yeah, that’s as good as the “George & Martha’s silverware” myth. So today I held a coin which was quite likely once held by Thomas Jefferson. That’s pretty doggone cool.