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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 6612452, member: 86498&quot;]Perhaps from one of the more notorious collectors</p><p>Antiochos IV Ar Tetradrachm Antioch 168-164 BC Obv. Head right diademed Rv, Zeus Nikephoros seated left. SC 1400 HGC 620a[ATTACH=full]1266813[/ATTACH]Purchased from Sotheby&#039;s Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection Auction 4 Lot 458 June 19 1991. For some time Nelson and his brother William had been trying to corner the silver market which lead to record prices of about $50 an ounce.(January 1980) Their efforts provoked a backlash leading up to &quot;Silver Thursday&quot; March 27 1980 when the price of silver and gold crashed. As the Hunts were largely buying on margin when the price began to plummet they were unable to meet their margin calls cause a major panic on Wall Street. Though they managed to survive this incident, the crash did eventually force them into bankruptcy in 1988.The coins were sold in a series of auctions between June 1990 and 1991.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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