Maybe he unpacked that a little bit to explain.

Sure.

It's not a collection.

It's a hoard.

And it's a bank hoard that was literally days away from being melted a few years ago.

And Stacks Bowers put together a deal and purchased it.

And there's tens of thousands of U.S. gold coins, pre-1933 U.S. gold coins, including...

reverse looks okay okay so anyways getting into some of my favorite coins we're getting into the bigger stuff now the big coins i like the 20 libs this is one of my favorite kind of dates i always buy these when i get a chance

Before we get into the examples, could you give a little bit of a maybe a lead in about what we're gonna be looking at today? And how in general do you approach collecting these kind of early mint branch mint coins?

The way to approach them is you can do them a couple of different ways.

You can do them as type coins, you can do them as date sets, or you can just buy whatever is interesting to you.

What you have to learn is that every Dahlonega coin is different.

It's not like Morgan dollars where most Morgan dollars look the same.

Every year that Dahlonega and Charlotte made coins, the coins were a different color, had a different texture, the surfaces were different.

So you had to learn what a good coin looks like.

And at what point did you start to track these populations and be able to come up with survival estimates and to, because a lot of your book, the value of your book, when I read it is this comparison of, you know, each issue and being able to know the rarity within specific grades are When did you start, I guess, analyzing that and what was your methodology for collecting the data that you did?