Just wondering if anyone knows where or into what famous collection this coin ended up in. I've been collecting for @30+ years and this is the first I've heard of it? Over the past few years I've gotten into cherry picking coins (after all the years of collecting the "hole" fillers I need are getting rather costly and I only can afford 2-3 a year, cherry picking keeps me going!) and have found that alot of the older books have alot more listings then the some of the newer ones. Anyway I picked up a 1962 oddity book on ebay for .99 cents and was looking thru it when I came across this. Just curious as to where it ended up and if it's ever been put up to auction?
The book is the 1963-1964 edition of Major VARIETY-ODDITY guide of United Sates Coins. By FG Spadone. I just got it and have already noticed several coins I have not seen listed in other guides I own.It covers half cents thru gold coins.Its a great book with excellent pics. For example it has over 18 differant 1962 cent varieties and even lists a 1795 dollar struck on a cent planchet. I've bought quite a few books on ebay (less than $20 total) and have found probably about a hundred differant wheatie varieties in my stashes that in theory are worth a few hundred $$. The best so far a 1935 dbl die. ( I don't know all the fancy #'s but it's in the cherrypickers guide). I'll probably be going thru a few hundred this weekend if anything good comes up I'll post it. Mattman
Well considering that the last known 1943 bronze cent was sold at auction in New Orleans in 1981 by Bowers and Ruddy,I doubt you'll ever find out what happened to this particular coin.The 1981 sale brought $10,000 so you can imagine what it would fetch today. http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article480.chtml
The Spadone brothers were prolific authors of lightly circulated, little known specialty coin books. The Manchukuo Coins section of John's Catalog of Modern Japanese Korean Manchukuo Coins published in 1960 has just about the best pictures of the Japanese Puppet State coins I've found.:thumb:
I just find it rather odd that a coin of this rarity (1943 cent triple struck in copper) that has been photogrphed and published has just disapeared. I would think that if whoever has it, knows what it is, it would be certified by now. Thus that might mean that this coin is now sitting in someones old cigar box, in a jar of pennies on the mantle or maybe in all those "unsearched" wheaties on eBay. (HA,HA!!) Maybe it'll show up someday (with ALOT of zeros behind it) only time will tell.
You're assuming the coin was real. A lot of older books contain coin varieties that turned out to be fakes.
I've found that around Error collectors the Spadone brothers aren't thought of too highly....so this could have been a fake... Speedy
I've been an error coin collector for well into the 50 year range and the primary thing I've learned is to really think about the old saying of Only Believe Half of What You See and Nothing of What You Hear.
In stamp collecting, suspcious errors are treated as "printer's waste", not catalogued and not valued. Maybe coin collecting could learn something from that.
That coin was determined to be a fake struck from false dies years ago. Would still be interesting to know where it is today.
