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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2553935, member: 19615&quot;]A bit of backstory for the coin discussed here: When I sold my imitations collection, RBW agreed on my insistence to buy this important piece, with the understanding that it would eventually be bequeathed to the ANS. I didn&#039;t want this to be lost from public view. I was more than a little perturbed when it ended up in a CNG esale after Rick&#039;s death. (For the record, this wasn&#039;t at all the &quot;fault&quot; of CNG; they had no way to know that this coin was supposed to receive special treatment.) If I absolutely had to, I was prepared to buy it myself and donate it to the ANS, but it would really have irked me to purchase my own coin a second time. Fortunately that wasn&#039;t necessary. After a frenzied round of emails between me, the ANS, the numismatic executors of Rick&#039;s estate and prospective bidders, Rick&#039;s heirs graciously agreed that the coin would be withdrawn from the CNG sale. The ANS duly purchased it for the amount Rick paid in Gemini; it will presumably remain in the ANS collection for ever and ever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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