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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5235396, member: 19463&quot;]My favorite is the turtle #4.&nbsp; I do not have the book you quoted but I do have the 1973 hardback sale catalog when the Ward collection was sold by Sotheby. Your coin was lot 423 and brought 2800 Swiss francs (cheapest of his five turtles).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to what you quoted the listing described the coin as having two dots added at shoulder and &#039;Holloway (2) Group 18. p. 251; cf. Milbankpl.1. 14; Boston Museum IIII)</p><p><br /></p><p>Lot 422 was a really nice earlier turtle that brought 18000 Swiss francs.&nbsp; I was given that catalog over 30 years ago by a friend who attended the sale and penned in prices and a few notes here and there.&nbsp; My catalog is listed as &#039;Part II&#039;.&nbsp; I do not have other parts.&nbsp; Many of my better catalogs were gifts from &#039;old guys&#039; (aka my age now) who were cleaning out their holdings.&nbsp; Then, as now, the postage to send a ton of catalogs for sale made giving them to a young person appealing.&nbsp; I wish I knew what I will do with them.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure Ward would sell but what about the boxes of lesser books?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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