Rare Philadelphia coin sells above estimate contrary to post-auction reports
Dallas, Texas (January 14, 2019) — An uncorrected reporting error republished by more than 1,000 media outlets worldwide negligently included a bogus pre-auction estimate of the 1943 bronze Lincoln cent auctioned January 10, 2019 by Heritage Auctions.
South West News Service (SWNS), a global wire service,
issued an article to its subscribers stating that the coin was expected to sell
for the inaccurate estimate of $1
