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<p>[QUOTE="illini420, post: 896626, member: 19423"]Hadn't seen a thread on this one yet... WOW!!!!!!</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://news.coinupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/1794-Silver-Dollar-PCGS.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img src="http://news.coinupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/1794-Silver-Dollar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>LOS ANGELES – What may be America's oldest silver dollar has become the world's most expensive coin, with its owner saying it changed hands in a private transaction between coin collectors for nearly $8 million.</p><p>Steven L. Contursi, who has owned the mint-condition 1794 Liberty dollar for the past seven years, confirmed Thursday that he sold it to the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of Sunnyvale for $7.85 million.</p><p><span style="color: Red">edited- copyright</span>.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pricey_dollar_2#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pricey_dollar_2#" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pricey_dollar_2#</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="illini420, post: 896626, member: 19423"]Hadn't seen a thread on this one yet... WOW!!!!!! [IMG]http://news.coinupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/1794-Silver-Dollar-PCGS.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://news.coinupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/1794-Silver-Dollar.jpg[/IMG] LOS ANGELES – What may be America's oldest silver dollar has become the world's most expensive coin, with its owner saying it changed hands in a private transaction between coin collectors for nearly $8 million. Steven L. Contursi, who has owned the mint-condition 1794 Liberty dollar for the past seven years, confirmed Thursday that he sold it to the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of Sunnyvale for $7.85 million. [COLOR="Red"]edited- copyright[/COLOR]. [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_pricey_dollar_2#[/url][/QUOTE]
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