Coins that are less than perfect can often find willing buyers as evidenced by offerings found in the Heritage May Platinum Night session that had cuds and die cracks but brought great prices.
A couple of contemporary circulating counterfeits from the 1770s were offered in an online offering by Stack's Bowers Galleries of selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection.
One of just two known proofs of an 1829 Half Eagle Large Diameter, Large Date, BD-1, R.7, PR66+ PCGS. JD-1, R.8 as a Proof drew 56 bids on its way to a record $2.88 million to lead Heritage Auctions' Central States Numismatic Society US Coins Signature® Auction to $46,206,006 May 3-7. When added to the
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A recently offered signed Kimon silver decadrachm circa 405 B.C. from Syracuse in ancient Greece is a beautiful coin reflecting high quality workmanship of the dies and has a well-documented pedigree.