I bought this recently from Ron’s personal stash from Timothy.
The reason I bought it was I knew from experience that first proof strikes don’t always come out perfect like you hope.
I helped Dan Carr with his Amazonian Essay Dollars, and Dan gave me the first 8 proof strikes, 16 in all were minted, but Dan wasn’t happy with them , so he sold his 8 as “bulk handled “ proof likes, and proceeded to sand blast the dies and changed the finish on the dies to a satin finish. So the rest of them had a satin finish (339 of them), although I did talk him into turning 40 of the 399 into color-toned.
I said all that to let y’all know that the first strike test strike from Ron Landis may not be the prettiest proof from him, but it is a first strike proof of his 1796 Draped Bust, and I don’t want part with it, if I ever part with it , it’ll take a huge amount of money…….. I’ve put my 2024 first strike proof Amazonian Essay up for sale on eBay for $4999.99 and didn’t really want it to sell because I really don’t want to part with it. Same thing with the Landis it’s a rare piece that I really don’t want to sell, and realized what I was really getting when I saw it‼️
I tried to down load pic of both these first proof test strikes but it didn’t let me ‼️😱
But I was able to post the pictures in my galleries if you want to see them ‼️👍👍🎯
I finally got both these first “test strikes” to download, yay ‼️👍🎯🎯‼️
