Two extremely rare coins from The Poulos Family Collection – an 1876-CC twenty cent piece and a Proof 1975 dime without the S mintmark – sold for $456,000 each as Heritage’s September 4-9 numismatic auctions at the Long Beach Coin and Collectibles Expo realized well over $30 million in total. U.S
September 16, 2019 – The most valuable United States modern coin ever sold at auction, a 1975 proof No S dime, changed hands twice in less than a week, both times for record prices.
The finer of the two known 1975 proof dimes without the San Francisco S mint mark was jointly purchased on September 6, 2019 for $456,000 by modern coin specialist Mitch Spivack along with his son, Justin, owner of MonsterCoinMart in Orange County California, and with collector Steven Heller also as a partner on the deal. They then sold it five days later through agent Nick Cascio for $516,000 to an avid Roosevelt dime collector who wants to remain anonymous
The world paper money girls and boys at Heritage Auctions have been a tad busy over the last couple of months what with a major Hong Kong sale and the distractions of ANA. Nonetheless the catalog for their upcoming Long Beach auction has been slowly taking shape online.
For some weeks now the top item listed on the first webpage for that sale must have caught a few readers’ eyes
The Heritage Auctions ANA sales are still a month off, yet such is the way of today’s numismatic world that shortly after these concludes in mid-August Long Beach waits just around the corner.
In point of fact consignments for that Sept. 4-9 sale closed on July 5
At top, reverse of the rare and top-selling 1917 Great British sovereign that realized $28,800 at Heritage’s successful Long Beach sale. At bottom, obverse of 6th issue hammered Elizabeth I gold pound struck at Tower Mint, which sold for $21,600 in AU55 NGC. (Image courtesy www
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