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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2250945, member: 75525&quot;]Doug, </p><p><br /></p><p>You are correct that the Coin ID# (1140) on the JQA sale is the Sydenham number. It should have been the lot #, see below. The Christian Blom ticket was printed in blue ink, but the date and other notes are in red. It may be the person who bought the coin from CB added notes including purchase date. Based on your comment I will not buy the auction catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read the following note in a Stack&#039;s blog on the sale - </p><p><br /></p><p><i>The collection was so vast that we used several catalogs to sell them at Public Auction. Each of the lots were put into 2X2 envelopes, stating it was from the Massachusetts Historical Society Collection sold at public auction, then the date of the sale and the lot number. On the rear flap of the envelope it said Stack’s New York.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>By putting the name of the society, the date of the sale, the lot number, and the auctioneer on the envelope, we established the pedigree of each coin being sold. If the new owner retained it with the coin, this envelope provided a way for the pedigree to continue into the future. Those who attended our first sale in 1970 and the sales that followed speak of the historical importance of the offering and how the retention of the pedigree added to both pride of ownership and the coin’s value.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><a href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n19a17.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n19a17.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n19a17.html</a></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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