Walt's Coins

The Collection of Walter Husak

(Photo Index)

December 15, 2022: It was with great sadness to learn that Walt passed away today. He was one of the nicest guys in the hobby. He had a multi-million dollar collection and was a numismatic icon, but he was always down to earth. A true gentleman that will be deeply missed.

The Walter Husak collection was sold by Heritage Auction Galleries February 15, 2008. The 301 large cents in his collection represented one of the most remarkable collections of early date large cents ever assembled in terms of quality and completeness, lacking only three Sheldon varieties, the S-15, S-79, and S-80. The collection sold for over 10 million dollars.

I had the privilege of meeting Walt at EAC 2003 and again at EAC 2008 in Dallas, soon after the conclusion of his auction. In short, he is a true gentleman. I was fortunate enough to win one coin from the auction, the 1797 S-124. Walt was kind enough to give me his personal envelope of the coin, plus all past envelopes that he saved for the coin, in order to preserve the pedigree. He was also kind enough to grant me permission to post these photographs of his collection that he took himself, before the collection was slabbed and sent to Heritage, in hopes that these photos could be shared by the collecting community.

The photos of Walt's coins are shown below, by variety. You can click on the coin icons to see a large view of the coin. There is no photo available for a few of the varieties; in this case there is a "hole" where the photo would be.

I want to personally thank Lance Newman, who took the time to convert the majority of these images to viewable format.

1793 Chain	S-1	S-2	S-3	S-4
1793 Wreath	S-5	S-6	S-7	S-8	S-9	S-10	S-11a	S-11b	S-11c
1793 Cap	S-12	S-13	S-14	S-15	S-16
1794	S-17a	S-18a	S-18b	S-19a	S-19b	S-20b	S-21	S-22	S-23
	S-24	S-25	S-26	S-27	S-28	S-29	S-30	S-31	S-32
	S-33	S-34	S-35	S-36	S-37	S-38	S-39	S-40	S-41
	S-42	S-43	S-44	S-45	S-46	S-47	S-48	S-49	S-50
	S-51	S-52	S-53	S-54	S-55	S-56	S-57	S-58	S-59
	S-60	S-61	S-62	S-63	S-64	S-65	S-66	S-67	S-68
	S-69	S-70	S-71	S-72
1795	S-73	S-74	S-75	S-76a	S-76b	S-77	S-78	S-79	S-80
1796 Cap	S-81	S-82	S-83	S-84	S-85	S-86	S-87	S-88	S-89
1796 Cap	S-90	S-91
1796 Bust	S-92	S-93	S-94	S-95	S-96	S-97	S-98	S-99	S-100
	S-101	S-102	S-103	S-104	S-105	S-106	S-107	S-108	S-109
	S-110	S-111	S-112	S-113	S-114	S-115	S-116	S-117	S-118
	S-119
1797	S-120b	S-121b	S-122	S-123	S-124	S-125	S-126	S-127	S-128
	S-129	S-130	S-131	S-132	S-133	S-134	S-135	S-136	S-137
	S-138	S-139	S-140	S-141	S-142	S-143
1798	S-144	S-145	S-146	S-147	S-148	S-149	S-150	S-151	S-152
	S-153	S-154	S-155	S-156	S-157	S-158	S-159	S-160	S-161
	S-162	S-163	S-164	S-165	S-166	S-167	S-168	S-169	S-170
	S-171	S-172	S-173	S-174	S-175	S-176	S-177	S-178	S-179
	S-180	S-181	S-182	S-183	S-184	S-185	S-186	S-187
1799	S-188	S-189
1800	S-190	S-191	S-192	S-193	S-194	S-195	S-196	S-197	S-198
	S-199	S-200	S-201	S-202	S-203	S-204	S-205	S-206	S-207
	S-208	S-209	S-210	S-211	S-212
1801	S-213	S-214	S-215	S-216	S-217	S-218	S-219	S-220	S-221
1801	S-222	S-223	S-224
1802	S-225	S-226	S-227	S-228	S-229	S-230	S-231	S-232	S-233
1802	S-234	S-235	S-236	S-237	S-238	S-239	S-240	S-241	S-242
1803	S-243	S-244	S-245	S-246	S-247	S-248	S-249	S-250	S-251
	S-252	S-253	S-254	S-255	S-256	S-257	S-258	S-259	S-260
	S-261	S-262	S-263	S-264	S-265
1804	S-266a	S-266b	S-266c
1805	S-267	S-268	S-269
1806	S-270
1807	S-271	S-272	S-273	S-274	S-275	S-276
1808	S-277	S-278	S-279
1809	S-280
1810	S-281	S-282	S-283	S-284	S-285
1811	S-286	S-287
1812	S-288	S-289	S-290	S-291
1813	S-292	S-293
1814	S-294	S-295

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