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….

 

Live Friday night auction (not eBay). $350

Did you know that this ingot was struck by Franklin Mint for Deak International?

Does 2SI-9 really exist?

I recently acquired a 2SI-8. This ingot is also listed in the book: Guide Book of Silver Art Bars by Archie Kidd, 6th ed, 2008, on page 21.

This book sells between $275 – $400. The old numismatic adage “Buy the book before buying the coin.” may not be cost effective here. 2SI-8 has a retail value of $70. However, it does have a limited mintage of 250. Snippets of page 21 from the Kidd book indicate that it’s identified as DEAK-2. Also, Franklin Mint is listed at the minter (Deak International is really the issuer).

The Kidd book does not list the 1 oz Hawaii (aka 2SI-9), however the Dallas and London 1 ounce silver ingots are listed. Is M&R incorrect? Is Kidd incorrect?

I still like that fact that two books (Medcalf & Russell and Kidd) report the same 250 mintage figure for the silver 1/2 ounce ingot. This is a very small number based on the documented Hawaii silver ingots in the M&R book.

Besides, I can always tell people that I have been at the top of Diamond Head multiple times. (My father worked in the crater when the FAA facility was located there). Do you know how many US National Geodetic Survey markers are at the top of Diamond Head?