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May 21, 2014 · A London Elephant “Halfpenny” with a hole sold for $1292.50, not a fortune for a rare and unusual 17th century item. Also, there is some mint red color inside the hole. An NGC graded “AU-50”...
NGC certified more than 7,500 coins, tokens and medals from over 100 nations from the remarkable collection of Eric P. Newman, a renowned American numismatist. It comprises some of the greatest rarities in all of numismatics, including a 1792 Washington President Pattern Gold Eagle that realized $1.74 million in August 2018.
- I. Mostly Silver Coins
- II. Success of The Auction
- III. Startling Prices For 19th Century Quarters
- $1.5+ Million For A Quarter
Though more than eighteen hundred, Newman Collection coins were sold, the major silver coins in this collection were auctioned in the Platinum Night session on Friday, Nov. 15. Even so, many excellent coinswere sold in all sessions, including coins that cost less than $100 each. This sale consisted of U.S. coins dating from 1794 to the middle of th...
The total amount realized, more than $23 million, is important in that this sum is among the all-time highest totals for an auction event, in which all the coins offered were from one consignor. More so than this $23+ million total, the rarity, quality and overall importance of individual coins, plus the extensiveness and depth of the offerings of ...
As many of the Newman Collection 19thcentury quarters are so beautiful and so astonishing, they would have realized strong prices if they had come from an anonymous consignor, though not quite as much. People paying premiums for coins because they are beautiful is a concept that is distinct from the idea of paying a premium for a pedigree or becaus...
The Newman Collection 1796 quarter sold for $1,527,500, far and away an auction record for a quarter. It is NGC graded “MS-67+” and has a sticker of approval from the CAC. I discussed it in part 3. The PCGS price guide value for the sole PCGS graded MS-67 1796, the Norman-Knoxville coin, is (or was before this auction) “$1,200,000”! An NGC press re...
Mar 26, 2014 · To date, four Newman Morgan dollars have been resold on eBay. Three San Francisco issues (1881-S, 1882-S, and 1889-S) were listed with no reserve, while a 1903-O was listed at a fixed price. The...
Nov 13, 2013 · This is the fifth in a series on the Eric Newman Coin Collection, the most famous coin collection to be auctioned since the Eliasberg and Pittman sales of the late 1990s.
Pre-1911 Silver New England Imitation Sixpence – NEWMAN-NJ, Newman Plate Coin – NGC AU 58
Jan 20, 2014 · Newman’s collection of world coins will be best remembered for items from German-speaking societies, Transylvania, Italian societies, and Scandinavia, though rarities from all...
