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Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Condition Census Project: Episode 1
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From: Chris Stevens <noe1oak@yahoo.com>
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When you find a way to explain this to your wife, call
mine and give her the same story! I also have several
hundred catalogs in piles, trying to accumulate
references of different colonial series.
Although I'm not documenting everything, I had hoped
to put together a binder with each of the top twenty
or thirty plated examples I can locate for each
variety of MA Silver, VT's, Machin's...etc.
I have actually found plated examples of colonials
that both my brother and I own, some going back to
sales from as early as 1975. (where the pedigree had
been unknown for probably ten years)
I enjoy knowing as much as possible about my coins.
There is no doubt in my mind that Garrett, Taylor, and
Hearns pieces trade hands without either party ever
knowing the pedigree. Catalogs are great!...As they
say, Knowledge is Power!
Let me know how your project comes along, or if you
would ever consider joining forces, comparing catalog
inventories,...etc.
-Chris
--- colonialcoinunion <jagre@attbi.com> wrote:
> I was going to title this post 'too much time on my
> hands' for reasons which are
> about to become obvious.
>
> After a couple of years of looking unsuccessfully
> for the definitive, practical,
> useable colonial condition census reference (ideally
> a small Roper catalog-
> sized book with color photos of all the coins listed
> by type ranked in grade
> order) I decided to create my own.
>
> Step 1: Purchase every significant and almost every
> insignificant auction
> catalog and FPL and reference book featuring
> colonial coins ever produced.
> Though this was hard to explain to my wife, it was
> easier than explaining Step
> 2.
>
> Step 2: Stack 500 catalogs on my dining room table
> in huge, precarious piles.
>
> Step 3: Transfer the prices realized by hand into
> each catalog alongside the
> lot description. I started doing this to make
> things easier, though it has turned
> into an incredibly tedious effort which I now feel
> obligated to continue.
>
> Step 4: List under every colonial type the top 5
> examples I could find in all the
> books..
>
> Step 5: Scan or photocopy the lot description and
> plate photo of each coin
> onto an 81/2 x 11 sheet and insert them into those
> clear pages that fit in three
> ring binders, then spend even more time studying the
> photos and descriptions
> and ranking them in order.
>
> I'll post episode 2 'renting a cot at Kinkos'
> tomorrow if there is sufficient reader
> interest.
>
> JA
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