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Jeff Garrett: An Inside Look Into a Numismatic Career
Greg Rohan is President and one of the owners of
Heritage Auctions, the largest collectibles and rare coin auctioneer, and third-largest auction house, in the world. A few weeks ago, Heritage sold a staggering $90 million worth of coins at auction in their
Dallas headquarters with just three live bidders in attendance.
The world of rare coin auctions and numismatics in general has changed a lot in the last few years, so I asked Greg to share some of this inside knowledge about these changes and perhaps make a few predictions.
Greg, how did you get started in numismatics and when did you become a dealer? I have heard Jefferson Nickels were your first passion.
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Jefferson nickel debuted in 1938, replacing the
Buffalo nickel in the 25th year of that coin’s production run. A design contest to commemorate Founding Father and third President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson, open to “all American sculptors”, was held in 1937. German émigré and American artist
Felix Oscar Schlag was the winner. He received $1,000 for his effort.
Schlag’s concept for the obverse, which art scholar
Cornelius Vermeule claimed was similar to
Jean-Antoine Houdon’s 1789 bust of Jefferson, appeared essentially the same on the five-cent nickel for 66 years. The original reverse concept, however–featuring an innovative three-quarters perspective of Jefferson’s mansion Monticello–was rejected by the
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