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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 4801960, member: 76111&quot;][ATTACH=full]1166176[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1166177[/ATTACH] For your consideration, the first page of buyers for Glendining&#039;s sale of Henry Platt Hall&#039;s magnificent collection of ancient coins in 1950.&nbsp; Glendining would often publish, after the sale, additional catalogues that detailed prices realized as well as the buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those of you who believe that dealers buying coins from auctions is some sort of problem or even new phenomenon, just look at the horror of what used to happen 70 years ago!&nbsp; The vast majority of these coins were bought by dealers.&nbsp; This has always happened and it&#039;s perfectly normal and healthy.&nbsp; This is just a random example from my library.</p><p><br /></p><p>The participation of individual collectors on a wide scale basis is a fairly recent occurrence and truly democratized because of the internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some names are still in business today.&nbsp; As a hint, the dealers include: Baldwin, Spink, Seaby, Cahn, Spink, and Santamaria.&nbsp; Some of the others might be too, but there are the ones I recognize off hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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