The Awesome Smithsonian National Coin Collection | Numistacker in Washington
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2017
- The Smithsonian has some very special coins on show in Washington. Let me save you the trip and do the footwork for you.
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incredible pree 33 pattern proofs,,, just wow,, thanks for sharing such an amazing museum tour... that 1933 st Gaudens wowzers
Very Instructive, Bravo !
What a great video ! It has ignited my desire for a spring trip. Thanks for this and all of your videos.
John
Awesome...thx for the tour!! Going to the Smithsonian is on my "bucket list"...so much history!!
An amazing collection. I guess the original Philadelphia mint cabinet had about 18,000 coins and medals when it was transferred in 23 cases to the Smithsonian, "for safe keeping" in 1923. Since then it has grown to over 1.6 million objects from all over the world. Well done Numi, thanks for the tour.
+Dr. G you it is a great pity they don’t show more of it off at any one time
The gold proofs are so beautiful. That looks like an amazing collection they have on display. Sometime I need to get to DC and go through the Smithsonian. I was there for a training class years ago and had enough time one evening to go to Arlington and walk down the Mall and look at the monuments quickly before it started to get dark.
I saw a similar display and asked an employee about the fear of damaging the coins in that methods of display. I was told the hooks were 24k gold, thus softer than the coins and preventing any damage to them. Great coinage, thanks!
Thanks very much Numistacker for the great tour. When I visited the British Museum in 1964, I held an Una and the Lion in my hand. Today I acquired a 1914C sovereign in MS64 condition for USD672. First one I have seen.
+MétéoMan 1914-C is a really nice pickup. I have been buying more Numismatic recently but thinking I may need to catch up with Lunars and medals too.
Lovely presentation, looking forward to visit some day. Thank you sir
Excellent thanks for sharing.
Very nice !!!
Great video and thank you for sharing! It has been many years since I visited the Smithsonian but I did not get the opportunity to see the coin collections due to time constraints.
My son and I visited DC this past summer.This was one exibition we didnt get to see.He wanted to see The White House, Washington Monument,Lincoln Memorial,Capital Hill,etc.We did get to see The Hope Diamond.Great vid buddy
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I lived there sadly did not see this thanks for sharing
I have been to Washington many times and never seen this at all
What a great collection. Thanks for sharing.
I bet the coins are damaged by the display.
I'll take a flashlight with me.
The narrator mentioned the 1933 Double Eagle would probably be worth $10 million. Since the coins in the National Collection are permanently out of reach to the collecting public, one could only speculate what a coin in that collection would be worth. However, the only known specimen of this coin that can be owned by the public was recently purchased in June/21 for over $18 million.
I will be attending this museum in September, just for the coins. Not that familiar with gold coinage from the US, but I love collecting US coins. What is the specialty on the 1933 eagle in the end of your video, care to explain? Thanks! A Silver Forum member!
thanks for sharing . them gold proofs are something else
Yes they are spectacular. its a shame more is not on show
Numistacker yh and agree mounting them aint the smartest move
I have a Pan-Pacific Octagonal, very beautiful coin.
The round is actually rare though.
The octagon is a more interesting shape. Great coin round or octagon
Beautiful coins. I have copies of many of those coins I bought used. The copied are nice except for the fact they have copy engraved on the reverse. I'm not sure what they're made out of, but they are nice.
Great Video!! I believe there were only 2 Half Unions ever minted. I would love to visit the Smithsonian in Washington. They are supposed to have over 1,000,000 coins in their entire collection. I read that nearly all of that collection is put away in the vaults because of the amount of space it would take to display them all. Its a shame really. But I'd still love to go and check out whats on display.
I wish they had much more on show there. Its sad that more items cant be seen
Ya, and I also agree that some of those display did seem poorly lit. The should go through and revamp how they are presenting everything.
Yeah it is a complete shame the amount of amazing coins they have that almost no one will ever get to enjoy. They should have a rotation system that moves displayed coins to cycle all of them. Otherwise what’s the point of having this collection if it is never seen.
Those gold sovereigns are now in the hands of 'top men.'
That was an awesome, interesting video. You would think, they would have a 1895 proof Morgan there?
I would love to own a Territorial gold piece such as the $50 "Slug." The $50 "Slugs" were produced by private mints during the Cali gold rush. The pattern coins are also nice. I believe the US Mint made trial pieces of the $50 Half Union in gold, silver, and bronze. The Una & Lion is one of my favorite British coin designs.
+MrMonkeySwag96 do you know how many slugs were made?
+Numistacker I'm not sure how many slugs were made. There are many private mints that produced gold slugs. Moffat & Co and Kellogg & Humbert are two firms that produced $50 slugs. There are many different varieties of slugs. I don't know the exact mintage numbers. However, the Red Book has the mintage figures of the different slugs. I believe the surviving population of each variety is in the hundreds or less.
Where the privite minted coins legal to use?
Amazing collection indeed, I have seen a good portion of their Islamic coins as well, the second largest collection of Islamic coins after the Qatar museum collection.
I love these kind of videos you do. Like the travel videos also. I used to go to the Museum of Art in NY on Central Park. Also a must visit if you are in NY.
I think the clips have a coating of rubber, like eyeglass clips. Any coins you have in your collection?
+John A I swapped my 33 double eagle for a Rwanda year of the Dog 1oz Gold BU with only 180 minted...
Great video! Those early gold proofs....I wish....but WAY out of my price range.
+Larry Stendebach yes the early proofs did it for me ))
Great video!, thanks for sharing 👍 btw, I don't like those nails holding the coins...NGC would say "Have been mounted" lol
Watched this again. Numistacker, the 1000 at 5:29 is a "Grand Watermelon" note, so called because the back has a large 1000 spellout with green watermelon looking zeros. They're more or less considered the equivalent of the 1804 silver dollar, they're the king of US paper money. There are around 5-6 of those in public hands and they currently go for 2-3 million. The coin at 4:39 is an Extra High Relief Saint from 1907. I'm not sure if that one is some special unique version, but there are also a few EX-HR 07 Saints in public hands and those rival or are currently worth less than the Grand Watermelon bill.
If you pause at 6:07, the coin to the very far left is a 1787 Brasher dubloon. That's probably the most expensive piece on display at any given time if you don't include any of the stuff that's totally unique like the 1849 Lib, non-monetized (their 1933 Saint -- about 11 of those exist, but only one is legal for the public to own and it sold in 2002 for 7 mill), or non-public like the $100K Wilson (those were only kept within the Fed Reserve system for bank-to-bank transactions and were never released to the public).
A few Brasher dubloons do exist outside of museums, but despite the most recent auction sale of 4.5 million for the best example gradewise that's known (MS63), today that very coin would be worth upwards of 7-10 million. Even the lower grade examples are probably worth around 5-6 if not more. Brasher dubloons (punched by gold regulator and creator Ephraim Brasher, who was a neighbor and friend of George Washington) are gorgeous coins, of immense American numismatic history as the first attempt at anyone creating an American gold coin pre-US Mint, and are worth mucho dinero.
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Numistacker, Great video I love History. Thank you so much for doing it. Different subject for a moment, is there a reason that you prefer NGC over PCGS? I have some coins I want to get graded ( silver proof’s ) 2016 & 2017, completions set of the 2016 centennial gold coins. Please let me know what you think is the best service to use and have them graded. Thank you
+Marty Scott the competence of both companies is pretty much identical. It comes down to price availability membership and holder. I have quite a few PCGS but prefer the NGC holder myself
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I was going to go to this mueseum on my school trip to DC. Honestly I was exited to see it above all things, and the stupid teacher canceled it cause it was "raining"
Did you see the 1849 $20 gold piece that's the most expensive coin ever the 1933 DE sold at auction for $7mil but since then like 10 more have been found so they are probably worth like 4-5 million
If you had to live in America permanently would you be able to sustain it or would you go nuts like myself? :-)
There are a few interesting designs there but US coins are mostly highly overrated and overpriced . Then again if US collectors feel like spending millions on them , let them have it their way . I was just looking at my collection of 15-16th century thalers and ancient greek coins and they have so much more eye appeal and historical weight on them
garbage compared to stuf I saw in europe /elsewhere ...