Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 763862, member: 66&quot;]I don&#039;t consider it to be arbitrary.&nbsp; For generations going back to the late 19th century important coins were known by the name of the collection they were first found in (or in a few cases the first famous collection) and they woud continue to be known by that name even as they moved from collection to collection.&nbsp; The reason was it made it much easier to trace pedigrees.&nbsp; It has only been in the past 20 years or so that important rare coins have started changing their names every few years as they moved from person to person.&nbsp; It has made keeping track of which coin is which when you have a coin with ten or fifteen surviving specimens but they go by 20 or 30 different names.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of the 1913 nickels they were all kept together until 1943 and then each became known for the person that bought it out of the group.&nbsp; (one exception is the Eliasberg coin which really should have been known as the Newman coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in