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Volume 10
November 2014
Issue #3

CONTENTS

OPENING SALUTATIONS
Editor ................................................................................................................5
 
A REVIEW OF THE 2014 C4OA REGIONAL MEETING –
CARSON CITY, NEVADA
 By Mary Elise Arnold ....................................................................................

 7

 
DOORSTOP TURNS OUT TO BE RARE CARSON CITY DIE!
By Wendy Beattie (Senior copywriter at Littleton Coin Co.) for
David Sundman ..............................................................................................

18

 
BEING PATIENT – THE ACQUISITION OF MY 1872-CC
HALF DOLLAR
By Mark Archambault .................................................................................... 24
 
“JUST ONE LOOK, THAT’S ALL IT TOOK ...” – BUILDING
A GRADE SET OF CIRCULATED 1885-CC MORGAN
SILVER DOLLARS
By Bill Dunn .....................................................................................................26
 
THE EAGLE STREET MINT – WHERE CARSON CITY $10 GOLD
PIECES BEGAN THEIR ASCENT
By Tony Arnold ...............................................................................................

35

 
PCGS SURPRISES ME WITH AN AWARD FOR MY CARSON CITY
GOLD COIN REGISTRY SET

By Peter Plath ...................................................................................................

40
 
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ...............................................................42
  
FYI PAGE ......................................................................................................56
  
DONATIONS FROM MEMBERS .......................................................

 58

  
A COMSTOCK CURIOSITY (OF MINE) – THE BOWERS
MANSION—C4OA WORD SEARCH PUZZLE
By Tom DeFina ...............................................................................................

      61

  
REVIEW OF NEW BOOK ABOUT ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE AND SILVER DOLLAR HOARDER LAVERE REDFIELD 
By Rusty Goe ...................................................................................................

       70

 
A TEN-PIECE “CC” COIN TYPE SET IN MINT STATE IS RARE
By Weimar White ............................................................................................

 76

 
A RARE FIND – A COUNTERMARKED 1889-CC MORGAN
SILVER DOLLAR
 By James Sneddon ..........................................................................................

 78

 
THE CHOPMARK CHALLENGE IN CARSON CITY COINAGE
 By Mary Elise Arnold ...................................................................................

 82

 
ARE THERE ANY HINDRANCES TO FREE-MARKET PRICES FOR CARSON CITY COINS?
 By Rusty Goe ..................................................................................................

87

 
NEW MEMBERS AND LIFE MEMBERS ROSTERS ..................91
  
MEMBERSHIP ROSTER ........................................................................

95

  
NON-RENEWALS ROSTER ................................................................

      97

  
A SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLES FOR 2014 .................................

      98

  
ARTICLE CONTRIBUTORS TO DATE ........................................... 101