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Daniel Frank Sedwick Auction, Over $1 Million in Treasure - Coin News
Oct 15 at 7:07pm
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC announces the release of their new mail-bid Treasure Auction #4 by catalog and internet. The auction closes November 6. Highlights of this sale include:
- A California Gold Rush-era gold ingot from the S.S. Central America (1857) estimated at $125,000+ and also a gold bar marked with the “En Rada” stamp (Peña-Randa) from the Atocha (1622) estimated at $40,000+;
- The “Golden Fleece wreck” (ca. 1550) Special Research Collection of Mexican Charles-Joanna rarities (including the famous 3 reales of 1536 estimated at $10,000+ and many of the finest specimens of the first issues struck in the New World), as well as gold “finger” bars and silver “splash” ingots from the same wreck;
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Daniel Frank Sedwick Launches New Website - Coin News
Sep 9 at 11:11pm
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC, specialists in colonial coinage of Spanish American, shipwreck coins and artifacts of all nations, has announced a newly re-designed website of treasures for sale.
Returning visitors will immediately notice the new site’s intuitive navigation and faster loading times. But there is much more.
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Sedwick’s Treasure Auction #3 hits $800,000
Jun 23 at 6:06pm
Treasure Fever has struck again! Expert numismatist and auctioneer of shipwreck coins and artifacts Daniel Frank Sedwick has released the results of his Treasure Auction #3. This mail-bid auction surpassed predictions by grossing over $800,000 ($700,000 + 15%), with an unprecedented 92%+ of the lots sold.
Consignments for Sedwick’s next auction (Treasure Auction #4) in the fall of 2008 are already pouring in. One of the top highlights of the sale was a rare mariner’s astrolabe that sold for $28,750.00 (with buyer’s premium). Other major highlights include a Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos of 1703 that sold for $17,250 and a Cartagena, Colombia, cob 2 escudos of 1622 (the first gold coin struck in the New World) that sold for $23,000 (both prices with buyer’s premium).
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