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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26185698, member: 101855&quot;]About 40 years ago the finest known example of this coin came up in an auction. In those days everything was catalogs, no Internet. For a nanosecond I thought, “if I sold my whole collection, could I buy this coin? I figured that it would sell for about $100 thousand. There were no buyers’ fees in those days. </p><p><br /></p><p>As it turned out, I was right. The published price realized was about $100 thousand. Later I learned that it was good that I didn’t sell my collection. The coin actually did not sell. The consigner bought it in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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