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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 1365374, member: 28550&quot;]I just finished reading &quot;The Thief Who Couldn&#039;t Sleep&quot;. It was written&nbsp; in 1966, and the main character sells a bunch of pre-WWI gold treasure in Beirut (since he was selling it without a clear&nbsp; provenance after sneaking it out of a cache in Turkey, he&#039;s forced to&nbsp; sell it for less than the full market rate).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s hard to imagine&nbsp; that nearly 600lbs of gold was worth so little&nbsp; back then. I was wincing a little bit as he sold a pile of primarily&nbsp; 19th century sovereigns with no concern at all to the numismatic&nbsp; premium. I&#039;m curious, how much would a hoard like that bring if it were brought to auction by one of the big auction houses today?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the description of what he recovers: </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How many sovereigns would that be? And how would you go about estimating value without a listing of dates, mint marks, and condition?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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