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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 05:55:28 -0000
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Subject: Re: favorite coin
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Neil,
I always look into the posts every few days or so, however I do not
comment as often as I should. Yours was one of the "better ones".
Thanks.
Your story of being a federal coinage colletor, and then gravitating
into the "good stuff" is probably very similar to the majority of us.
Once you go colonial, you never go back!
Mike and Tom simply had good taste.
Geoff,
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Rothschild"
<nrothschild@n...> wrote:
> March, 1995....
>
> I was dabbling in Franklins, Bust Halves and other Federal Silver.
I was
> also active on the old CompuServe Coin Forum. I met some guy from
> California there, and somehow or another he talked me into buying a
> "Connecticut" from him. I didn't really know what it was, but it
was cheap
> so I bought it (but it was a couple bucks more than a 1949-S UNC
Franklin,
> so it wasn't really "cheap"). He told me it was a 1788 M.9-E and
it "had a
> neat head style".
>
> I liked the coin, so I bought a "Laughing Head" from him.
>
> He also told me to buy a "Taylor". So I emailed him back: "What
the hell
> is a Taylor?"
>
> A long email conversation ensued and he kept saying "You gotta go to
> Cincinnati to the EAC convention. And you gotta buy books".
>
> The book thing was weird because you couldn't call up Bowers &
Merena or
> some mail order coin house and buy the books. You certainly
couldn't get
> them at the local book store. These books were very secretive.
You had to
> find someone who had an extra copy who was willing to part with
it. Very
> strange.
>
> I thought the coins were neat, so I went to Cincinnati and I bought
as many
> books as I could carry back on the plane. I bought a Taylor from
some guy
> named Tom that looked like a refugee from Berkeley circa 1972. I
bought a
> Crosby (1983 Quarterman edition) from Charlie Davis. I bought some
ANS COAC
> publications. Then I met a guy named Ed who had a bunch of weird
> counterfeit coins and HE talked me into buying some crazy book
called
> "Forgotten Coins" for some ridiculous amount of money, more than I
probably
> ever paid for a coin, much less a book.
>
> Eventually I figured out that this coin was heavier than any other
M.9-E on
> record (170 grains). A few years ago I bought the lightest M.9-E I
know of
> to go with it. I have an AU now, but this coin will forever be in
my
> collection (weight aside).
>
> Eight years later, I have 250 varieties and a room full of books
but this is
> how it all started... with this coin from that guy from California.
>
> Here's to you, Mike Bristow, I'll be forever grateful...
>
> Neil
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