Quick everyone turn to ABC World News

They are going to air a program about coins. It is now 6:16 Est. time. It should be comming on in about 5-10 minutes.

 

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What channel?? I have fios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Umm 2 on metro cast. Don't worry it hasn't aired yet. Commercial break. I believe it is about a large cent that sold for 1 million dollars? ABC World News.

 

That was much shorter than I would have imagined... Still cool to see coins in the news!

 

Yes, way too short but very cool.

 

Yes, way too short but very cool.

 

What was it about? that 1793 Chain Large Cent?

 

Yes here is thread on this http://www.cointalk.com/t197977/

 

If this is the same news cast. It comes on at 5:30PM West coast time.

 

I think that was also in the newspaper.

 

It was pretty widely covered. I wish I had the money to make that purchase. (Not that I would.)

 

well I guess that beats the 1855-S 3 dollar gold piece.

 

As usual with these high-price coin auctions,
the "winner" was the "anonymous buyer".

 

The high grade of the coin plus the fact that it was part of the Eliasberg collection equals premium price. Simple math:yes:

 

Well yeah. If I were to make such bids to win and own something of such value, why would I announce to every thief in the world watching that I'm now the current owner so they can target me.

 

I could be wrong, but doesn't "anonymous buyer" usually equate to "investment group"?

BTW, owning/purchasing a million+ dollar coin does not necessarily equate to automatically having a target on your back that's not already there. What I mean by that is that having a million+ bucks to spend on a "hobby" usually equates to having a standard 7 figure annual income. Folks with those types of incomes usually have adequate security and security advice readily available.

 

I think some just do not want to draw the attention. The anonymous bidder could mean any number of things, including what some suspect of the 1933 double eagle: The U.S. government may have been the winning bidder.

 

There's nothing sinister here. Anonymous buyer means only that the winner did not want to be identified publicly. As a rule we do not identify winners of any of our auctions in any way, although we will do so, only with their consent, if the item is newsworthy.

BTW, here is a link to the coin: http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1166&lotNo=3020

 

It could be foreign buyer who often rename anonymous to avoid any backlash and avoid any potential hassle when moving the item back home (Saudi princes for example are known to spent a lot of $$$ in auctions).

 

maybe yes! Maybe not!..