NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JULY 28, 2013
The E-Sylum (7/25/2013)
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The Discount Grocers Sign
An E-Sylum reader writes:
I saw this grocery store sign in San Francisco. Owner must be a paper money collector.
More on the Mickley 1804 Dollar
Dave Stone (U.S. Coin Cataloguer at Heritage Auctions) writes:
I just wanted to clarify about the Heritage lot description for the Mickley 1804 dollar in the August 2013 sale. There will be several versions of the lot description in different formats. An abbreviated version of approximately 30 pages will be included in the printed Platinum Night catalog, while a longer version of approximately 60 pages will appear online.
Unfortunately, the software we usually use to enter lot descriptions in the catalog and online cannot accommodate a document of this size, so we are preparing a PDF document that will be available on the website. The current description on the Heritage website is just the introduction to the longer description which will be posted soon, as noted at the end of the online introduction.
Regarding Jim Duncan’s question about the pedigree of the Mickley dollar, I have attached the detailed roster which will be included in both the long and short descriptions.
6. Mickley Specimen, the Present Example
PR62 NGC. Chief Coiner Adam Eckfeldt; unknown intermediaries; Henry C. Young, a teller at the Bank of Pennsylvania (circa 1850); Joseph J. Mickley (circa 1858); Mickley Collection (W. Elliot Woodward, 10/1867), lot 1676, realized $750; William A. Lilliendahl; Edward Cogan (1868); William Sumner Appleton (1868); Massachusetts Historical Society (1905); Massachusetts Historical Society-Maryland Collector Auction (Stack's, 10/1970), lot 625, realized $77,500; Chicago collection; Reed Hawn, in a private treaty transaction via Stack’s in 1974; Hawn Collection (Stack's, 10/1993), lot 735, realized $475,000; David Queller; Queller Family Collection (Heritage, 4/2008), lot 2089, realized $3,737,500; the present consignor.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: THE MICKLEY 1804 DOLLAR (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n30a17.html)
Mickey Turoff
Paul Bosco writes:
Joe Levine told me Mickey Turoff died a couple months ago. Mickey was a complicated case. Talent and knowledge galore, but he rarely picked up a pen and he rarely shut his mouth. In equal measure, he would spew numismatic pearls and guttural autobiography. I mostly liked Mickey –heck, I was at his wedding.
Mickey had many American medals, including one of the very best V.D. Brenner collections. He probably knew more about Brenner than anyone else, and probably has taken some valuable info to his grave. With Mickey gone, speculation about the future of his collections has perhaps already begun. My money is on a Stack’s-Bowers sale, although I’d prefer a Joe Levine (PCAC) production. Joe would use the exact amount of ink needed to write an auction catalog , one that would give Mickey a proper send-off and lessen some of the damage from his lifelong writer’s block.
The Last Books Signed by Don Taxay?
Tom DeLorey writes:
Apropos George Kolbe's interest in autographed copies of Don Taxay's "Counterfeit, Mis-Struck and Unofficial U.S. Coins," I may have the last copy of it that Taxay ever autographed. While I was at Coin World I heard that Taxay would be visiting the office the next day, so I brought all of my personal copies of his works down to the office and had them autographed on April 23, 1977. I am not sure when he disappeared, but it could not have been much more than a year after that.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUERY: INSCRIBED TAXAY BOOKS ON COUNTERFEITS SOUGHT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n28a12.html)