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24 July 2008

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Eight South African Proof Sets at Dix Noonan Webb - NumisMaster

One unusual group of sets that closed in last weeks Dix Noonan Webb sale No. 78 was a run of eight South African proof sets. Normally I do not see too many of these at auction, though I know they do trade privately.

Some 20 years ago these scarce 20th Century cased sets were a very hot commodity, with high prices and a handful of collectors striving to obtain them.

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17th century rare gold coin recovered in N.L. - Canwest News

Call it the 17th century equivalent of losing your bank card - and then picture the owner losing his mind trying to find it. Sometime around 1627, the owner of a very valuable gold coin lost it at an early British colony on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula.

Archeologist Jim Tuck, who dug the rarity out of the stone footing of a house this week at the Colony of Avalon, says how it got there is anybody’s guess, but the erstwhile owner - maybe the man who founded it in 1621, Lord Baltimore, himself - didn’t let it go very easily

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Anaconda Rare Coin Inventory to be Sold in Heritage’s June Summer FUN Auction

More than 350 rare coins from the inventory of noted Dallas firm Anaconda Rare Coins will be offered by Heritage Auction Galleries in their Summer FUN Signature® Auction catalog. The auction will be held June 25-28, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The catalog will be posted by Heritage on their HA.com website.

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Dealer brokers 1880 gold “Stella” coin sale - The Garden City News

Eastern Numismatics Inc., of Garden City, recently completed the sale of one of 17 known 1880 Four-Dollar Gold “Stella” coins. The coin was purchased by Eastern Numismatics for more than $500,000 on behalf of a client, a record price for a coin of this type.

“This was a tremendous opportunity and we are very pleased that we were able to acquire this coin on behalf of our client. This is a rare but very well known coin with a somewhat infamous history.

It is said that the original proofs where given to several members of Congress in Washington. A number of these coins found their way into the possession of ‘mistresses’ of prominent politicians. In some instances they were made into jewelry,” said Joseph Parrella, Vice President of Eastern Numismatics Inc.

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