The New York Subway Hoards

Well, many of you may want to know: what is the New York Subway Hoard?

The NYSH was a coin hoard pieced together by the owner of a New York City subway company, consisting of rare coins of the United States. The compartments included 8 1901-S quarters, 45 complete sets of Barber dimes (minus the 1894-S), 241 1916-D dimes, 166 1942/41 dimes, 24 sets of Barber half dollars, 20 1913-S quarters, 160 1912-S nickels, 29 1918/17-D nickels, among other curios. The lot was sold to Littleton Coin Co. of Colorado in the 1990s, and is considered one of the group's highlights.

 

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Never heard of it till you mentioned it Nevada. Seems the items were sold to the Littleton Coin Company..........this from their site........

http://www.littletoncoin.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Display|10001|10001|-1||LearnNav|Learning-From-the-New-York-Subway-Hoard.html

 

I bet they took a screwing when they sold it to littleton..

 

I bet he also collected these rare gems.

 

Actually, earlier than that according to the article.........

 

It had to be at least 1942, because of the presence of those '42/41 dimes.

 

I grew up in Littleton, Colorado
That is a good article and I have never heard of the hoard either. (NYSH)
Here's there correct address. In New Hampshire
Littleton Coin Company
1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561

 

Yeah, but Bob, I believe they moved...........

 

What about this brass-colored NYC subway token from the picture? Is there any collector's value?

 

OK stupid question... you can find it on eBay for a couple of dollars so I guess that's about its value