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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 5235593, member: 94602&quot;]Thanks for your reply. I also have the catalog somewhere sealed as it smells of moisture. The hammer price is a great counter example for people &quot;investing&quot; in ancient coins. The prices of coins are severely inflated in such auctions in the 70s. With 2800 swiss francs in 1973 you could buy 850 g of gold which is something like 45.000$ today. I merely paid 1600$ all in for the coin...</p><p><br /></p><p>And to reply to [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] , the provenance was a lucky find. I got another coin from the Ward collection this year which I did not include in my top five since it irritates me to remember the traumatic bidding.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Lot 344 from the same sotheby&#039;s auction...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217391[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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