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<p>[QUOTE="J.T. Parker, post: 7540417, member: 106405"]My IHC Story:</p><p>My friend Billy and fellow coin collector, the one I ended up doing his collection's appraisal for his widow. (see full story in 'Eddie...What I've Got Here?'...thread) </p><p> He came home with 300 IHC he had bought from a Vietnamese Jewelry shop (?) He had gotten the price down to 30¢ each and paid the guy $100 for the lot. Billy wanted one of my Krause-Mishler World Coin catalogues (1997) so for a trade, he allowed me to pick out 50, after he had gone through them and gotten the ones he wanted.</p><p> What I couldn't believe was all the later dated coins that were obviously Au-Unc and had 90%-95% red..I recall asking him if he had missed those and he demurred. So, I ended up with 23 beautiful red IHC's in AU-UNC condition, dating from 1900 - 1906..and some earlier dates (1887-1899) in XF. Unfortunately, because I was buying and selling, I had to sell all of them...Woulda, shoulda, coulda...</p><p>J.T.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J.T. Parker, post: 7540417, member: 106405"]My IHC Story: My friend Billy and fellow coin collector, the one I ended up doing his collection's appraisal for his widow. (see full story in 'Eddie...What I've Got Here?'...thread) He came home with 300 IHC he had bought from a Vietnamese Jewelry shop (?) He had gotten the price down to 30¢ each and paid the guy $100 for the lot. Billy wanted one of my Krause-Mishler World Coin catalogues (1997) so for a trade, he allowed me to pick out 50, after he had gone through them and gotten the ones he wanted. What I couldn't believe was all the later dated coins that were obviously Au-Unc and had 90%-95% red..I recall asking him if he had missed those and he demurred. So, I ended up with 23 beautiful red IHC's in AU-UNC condition, dating from 1900 - 1906..and some earlier dates (1887-1899) in XF. Unfortunately, because I was buying and selling, I had to sell all of them...Woulda, shoulda, coulda... J.T.[/QUOTE]
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