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Yes, those coin and stamp departments leased the space from the department store and were independent operations. Back in the 1960s, the Gimbels stamp department, which was run by the same company which marketed the coins, claimed to be the largest stamp dealer in the world. Dentuck Posts: 3,815 .
Authenticated after 1980 Steve Ivy sale by ANACS to Numismatic Funding Corp. Even though this is referred to as the famous "Ice Cream Specimen" there's no way to be certain that this is indeed the piece Hallie Daggett spent. Robert Freidberg bought this coin over the counter for $2.40 (24 times face value) at Gimbels Department Store, NY, in 1957.
The first time I purchased coins from a professional coin dealer was just before Christmas 1964. My parents had planned a holiday trip to New York City and during that time I was scheduled visit the coin department at Gimbels Department Store. I was 15 years old and had been collecting coin since "Christmas morning, 1959." The coin counter there was not very large. In fact it was located under ...
Gimbels Department Store sold them in the 1960s. I was never a great roll searcher so I never bought one. ...
The numismatists who maned the counter at Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia, PA spent a fair amount of time with me helping me to learn the ropes. They helped me learn to grade and spot over graded material.
With all due respect to the better grade examples of the 94-S, the Ice Cream Cone Dime is my favorite. I think that the story captures the imagination of all collectors and the essence of coin collecting for many of us.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
The first Chain Cent I saw was at the Gimbels Department Store coin counter in Philadelphia. They had graded it AG. It was in some ways better and some ways worse. The date was visible had had some help with some tooling. The head was outlined, and the LIBERTY was visible.
My mother thought that. She thought people had to hide the fact that they had those coins. She was amazed when she saw gold coins openly offered for sale at the coin counter in Gimbels Department Store in New York City in the early 1960s.
When I was 16 the manager of Gimbels Department store in Phildelphia offered me job there to clerk in the coin deparment. I couldn't take him up on it because I lived 90 miles from the store.