Below is a good reference for the Hawaiian specialist. This is the 09/09 Hawaii Collection Auction Catalog (with color pictures).

http://issuu.com/goldbergcoins/docs/hawaii

 

The style is similar to my Eisenhower book…

I’m performing a few finishing touches on another soon to be released book.  I am planing to release this book within a week.

Excerpt:

The Franklin Mint issues have been previously integrated into Hawaiiana numismatics. There are a total of 36 medals and 12 ingots cataloged in the book Hawaiian Money Standard Catalog “Second Edition”, 1991,  by Medcalf & Russell (MR91).

In performing the research for this book, I uncovered a total of 73 Franklin Mint medals relating to Hawaii. These additional 37 medals are not generally known by the Hawaiian specialist and are often overlooked and not collected. I’ve also uncovered a total of 25 Franklin Mint ingots. These additional 13 ingots are also not generally known by the Hawaiian specialist and are also overlooked and not collected.

This book fills the knowledge gap about the previously undocumented Franklin Mint issues relating to Hawaii and catalogs the 73 Franklin Mint medals and 25 Franklin Mint ingots .  This book also provides additional information that is helpful to the Hawaiiana numismatist, such as images,  mintages, cross reference to MR91, and identification of the source set of the medal or ingot of interest.

I was surfing the internet and came-upon this curious set. This set consist of all the serial numbered medals except the gold. I am assuming all medals have the same serial number (as labeled on the set).

An online auction house (not eBay) was selling an 1984 gold Hawaii coin in BU condition.

Provided information and images were not very helpful. However my snooping identified it as a gold IKI.

I’ve been watching this coin since February 5th.

I did some moderate visual investigation.  I determined it was 13 mm based on the cardboard flip size.

I saw the words IKI and STATEHOOD on the reverse.

I placed my absentee  bid days in advance.

I watch the online bidding today. Within a minute my absentee bid won !

The coin is likely to be a BU 1984 Kalakaua Gold Statehood IKI in 18 KT with a mintage of 218. This purchase was based on the visual inspection of blowup poor quality pictures….