The Fairmont Collection/Hoard

Apparently there were 147 Double Eagles in the collection; this Hendricks subset may or may not have included them all when it went up for sale earlier this year:

https://coinweek.com/auctions-news/...es-20-double-eagles-from-fairmont-collection/

 

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One more than I have at any time

 

i would love to afford a coin from this collection but i can barely afford my rent its too dang high

 

Update on the Fairmont Hoard...another sale.....they go on and on and on....outside of mega-collections like Eliasberg which took multi-year time outs on their sales....I can't recall another Hoard going for this long.

https://raregoldcoins.com/blog/2023...t-the-most-recent-fairmont-sale-november-2023

The 1983 El Salvador (~49,000 coins) and 1996 Wells Fargo No Motto Saints Hoards (~19,900 coins) each got sold within a few years from what I have read.

 

Fairmont Collection/Hoard @ Doug Winter Website: Guest blogger Richard Radick (must be a collector or dealer) has done a spectacular 6-part (so far ! ) deep dive into the Fairmont Collection, focusing on the 8,000 or so graded/certified coins and their impact on the various coins and grades.

It's very complicated...involves math and lots of assumptions...but it's the BEST (only ?) deep-dive that attempts to pierce the veil of secrecy that has surrounded a massive hoard (or group of collections, multiple bank holdings, whatever) that have been merged together into what must be the LARGEST hoard/collection in my records.

They've been selling this for 7 years now....beats 1908 No-Motto, SSCA, etc.

Anyway, here's the deep dive. You can read the individual parts solo but I think you learn the most and best by starting with Part 1 (which was a year ago in December 2023) so that you have the entire picture:

https://raregoldcoins.com/blog?category=Market Blog

 

Update over at DW site on the Carson City coins of the Fairmont Collection.

https://raregoldcoins.com/blog/2025/2/21/fairmont-gold-pieces-part-ix-the-carson-city-coins

GDJMSP....have you been following how the Guest Blogger has been using the PCGS Population Reports to construct "time series" and estimate the size of the Fairmont Collection/Hoard ?

Fascinating stuff.

 

I have seen some of these coins on the bay bringing big premiums !