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My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin
expert. Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. No one at the club meeting had an answer. However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? And, approximately how long has the term been around? Bill |
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The term as used on the slab is somewhat confusing. However, the
seller's reference to a page number indicates the solution. It means that this coin has been used as an illustration in a book. Chas. Edwards |
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"Charles Edwards" wrote in message ... The term as used on the slab is somewhat confusing. However, the seller's reference to a page number indicates the solution. It means that this coin has been used as an illustration in a book. Chas. Edwards Well, that was a suggestion ( a member's guess) I heard last night at the club meeting and I rejected it, thinking that a coin used as a book illustration would not be worthy of notation on plastic. If true, that would mean the cent returned to the member as a discovery coin has had it's image taken for inclusion in a future book or book revision. It that particular case, "PLATE" would mean the coin _will be_ used as an illustration in a book. Bill |
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Bill Krummel wrote:
My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin expert. Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. No one at the club meeting had an answer. However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? And, approximately how long has the term been around? A cascade of two mistakes, arguably more. The coin was gold plated some time in its past. I judge this not from expertise, which I lack, but from a casual glance at the striking and very irregular color. That haint copper! The high point wear clinches it! Mistake #1: A typo on the slab label. The "D" is missing from the word PLATED. If intentional by the slabber due to a length restriction on the alteration code, then IMAO it is still a mistake. Mistake #2: Teletrade copied and failed to edit the typo in their auction description. --Dave |
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Bill Krummel wrote:
My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin expert. Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. No one at the club meeting had an answer. However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? And, approximately how long has the term been around? Others have commented that a "plate" coin is one that has pictured in a book. I will only add that the book is normally one that became a standard reference for its subject matter, and that the coin is close to or at the top of the condition census for that particular date/mint/variety/die state. Another lesser-known use of the term "plate" is to name certain large Swedish copper slabs that have been stamped several times with a coin die. Usually, though, this use of "plate" is followed by the word "money" instead of "coin." James the Diehard |
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On Aug 14, 1:50*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Bill Krummel wrote: My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin expert. *Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. *Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. *I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". *I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. *No one at the club meeting had an answer. *However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. *With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". *This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? *And, approximately how long has the term been around? Others have commented that a "plate" coin is one that has pictured in a book. *I will only add that the book is normally one that became a standard reference for its subject matter, and that the coin is close to or at the top of the condition census for that particular date/mint/variety/die state. Another lesser-known use of the term "plate" is to name certain large Swedish copper slabs that have been stamped several times with a coin die.. Usually, though, this use of "plate" is followed by the word "money" instead of "coin." James the Diehard- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Of course you are correct, mon vieux. No need to be a diehard on this one. A plate coin was "the coin" used to produce a photo for a well-known standard numismatic reference book. Just another example of how the hobby is failing to convey to the next generation something that everybody once knew or understood without question or controversy. I have an incredibly chopped up Cap & Rays 8 reales that was one of the numerous plate coins in "Chopmarks by Rose". Although I was aware of the provenance it before I bought the coin, this piece is so distinctive that you couldn't confuse it. oly |
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On Aug 14, 2:14*pm, oly wrote:
On Aug 14, 1:50*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: Bill Krummel wrote: My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin expert. *Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. *Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. *I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". *I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. *No one at the club meeting had an answer. *However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. *With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". *This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? *And, approximately how long has the term been around? Others have commented that a "plate" coin is one that has pictured in a book. *I will only add that the book is normally one that became a standard reference for its subject matter, and that the coin is close to or at the top of the condition census for that particular date/mint/variety/die state. Another lesser-known use of the term "plate" is to name certain large Swedish copper slabs that have been stamped several times with a coin die. Usually, though, this use of "plate" is followed by the word "money" instead of "coin." James the Diehard- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Of course you are correct, mon vieux. *No need to be a diehard on this one. A plate coin was "the coin" used to produce a photo for a well-known standard numismatic reference book. Just another example of how the hobby is failing to convey to the next generation something that everybody once knew or understood without question or controversy. I have an incredibly chopped up Cap & Rays 8 reales that was one of the numerous plate coins in "Chopmarks by Rose". *Although I was aware of the provenance it before I bought the coin, this piece is so distinctive that you couldn't confuse it. oly- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I might expound - in the early days of numismatic printing with photographic illustrations, it was prohibitively expensive to scatter photographs of coins through out the text (and quality was poorer that way too). So the coins were all gathered together in groups of coins on a single "photographic plate" and photographed that way. Each plate was itself numbered and each seperate coin on the plate was numbered, so it could be referenced in the running text of the book. The plates were typically bunched that way in one place, usually bound in the back of the book. And the term "plates" is also pre-photographic. Hand engravings of coin images were assembled together in "plates" in the eighteenth century and the term "the plates" was used much the same as today. I've been reading on the creation of the British Museum and on several early 18th century numismatists. They assembled "plates" for their publications and these hand engraved copper plates were usually very expensive to create and might themselves be used and reused over many decades. oly |
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oly wrote:
On Aug 14, 1:50 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: Bill Krummel wrote: My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin expert. Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. No one at the club meeting had an answer. However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? And, approximately how long has the term been around? Others have commented that a "plate" coin is one that has pictured in a book. I will only add that the book is normally one that became a standard reference for its subject matter, and that the coin is close to or at the top of the condition census for that particular date/mint/variety/die state. Another lesser-known use of the term "plate" is to name certain large Swedish copper slabs that have been stamped several times with a coin die. Usually, though, this use of "plate" is followed by the word "money" instead of "coin." James the Diehard- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Of course you are correct, mon vieux. No need to be a diehard on this one. A plate coin was "the coin" used to produce a photo for a well-known standard numismatic reference book. Just another example of how the hobby is failing to convey to the next generation something that everybody once knew or understood without question or controversy. The "hobby" is failing? I don't recollect any feeling on my part that the "hobby" ever owed me anything. Of course, I had a mentor or two along the way, but mostly took the initiative to find out what I needed to know on my own, because it so was much more efficient. In fact, when I think back to the early days of the North Lugburz Coin Club, which my young teenage self helped charter way back in nineteen mumbly-nine, the adults that were around me really didn't seem to have much knowledge of numismatics at all, they were just guys filling Whitman folders from their pocket change. I'll bet that very few, if any, knew what a plate coin was. James the Selfstarter |
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oly wrote:
On Aug 14, 2:14 pm, oly wrote: On Aug 14, 1:50 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: Bill Krummel wrote: My non-collecting friends and acquaintances think of me as a top-notch coin expert. Even at the local coin club gathering I think I have a small reputation for having coin knowledge. Outside of those small circles, though, I am continually astounded by how little I know about the coin collecting hobby. Last night I attended the local coin club meeting. I was shown a webpage printout of a Teletrade auction similar to this one; http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.a...=2732&lot=1042 and was asked what was meant by "PLATE". I had to admit I had no idea nor had I ever heard or seen the term before as part of a coin description. No one at the club meeting had an answer. However, one club member had brought a coin that was a cent variety that he had discovered and submitted. With the coin was a letter from some variety expert (I don't remember the name) and in the letter was the same term, "PLATE". This led to speculation that "PLATE" must be a descriptor of a discovery coin of any particular variety. Can any rcc'er better explain the term "PLATE"? And, approximately how long has the term been around? Others have commented that a "plate" coin is one that has pictured in a book. I will only add that the book is normally one that became a standard reference for its subject matter, and that the coin is close to or at the top of the condition census for that particular date/mint/variety/die state. Another lesser-known use of the term "plate" is to name certain large Swedish copper slabs that have been stamped several times with a coin die. Usually, though, this use of "plate" is followed by the word "money" instead of "coin." James the Diehard- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Of course you are correct, mon vieux. No need to be a diehard on this one. A plate coin was "the coin" used to produce a photo for a well-known standard numismatic reference book. Just another example of how the hobby is failing to convey to the next generation something that everybody once knew or understood without question or controversy. I have an incredibly chopped up Cap & Rays 8 reales that was one of the numerous plate coins in "Chopmarks by Rose". Although I was aware of the provenance it before I bought the coin, this piece is so distinctive that you couldn't confuse it. oly- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I might expound - in the early days of numismatic printing with photographic illustrations, it was prohibitively expensive to scatter photographs of coins through out the text (and quality was poorer that way too). So the coins were all gathered together in groups of coins on a single "photographic plate" and photographed that way. Each plate was itself numbered and each seperate coin on the plate was numbered, so it could be referenced in the running text of the book. The plates were typically bunched that way in one place, usually bound in the back of the book. And the term "plates" is also pre-photographic. Hand engravings of coin images were assembled together in "plates" in the eighteenth century and the term "the plates" was used much the same as today. I've been reading on the creation of the British Museum and on several early 18th century numismatists. They assembled "plates" for their publications and these hand engraved copper plates were usually very expensive to create and might themselves be used and reused over many decades. Do you happen to know what type of method was used to produce the always high-quality plates in the Quarterman coin books? Were they collotypes? James the Kodak Brownie |
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Mr. Jaggers
Do you happen to know what type of method was used to produce the always high-quality plates in the Quarterman coin books? Were they collotypes? James the Kodak Brownie *********** The Quarterman reprints sometimes reprinted books with collotype plates but the three reprints from him that I have in my library use standard printing techniques (dots) and not collotype. I met the man who issued these reprints (and whose name escapes me for the moment) in 1975 and asked him how Quarterman had been chosen, indicating that the only similar use I had known was Allen Quartermain of "King Solomon' s Mines." He said that I had guessed correctly. Chas Edwards |
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