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newmisty | 01-09-2010 02:49 AM
.Rare coin fetches over �2.3 million in auction Rare coin fetches over �2.3 million($3.7 Million) in auction http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100108/...oe_uk_usa_coin Booyah- Quote:
Fri Jan 8, 2:15 pm ET MIAMI (Reuters) � A rare 1913 U.S. coin once owned by an Egyptian king and later featured in a famous U.S. TV detective series was sold for more than $3.7 million (2.3 million pounds) in a public auction in Florida, the auctioneers said on Friday. The so-called Liberty Head nickel, one of only five known of that specific date and design, was sold "in spirited bidding" to a private East Coast coin collector in Orlando late on Thursday, said Greg Rohan, president of Dallas, Texas-based Heritage Auctions. The buyer wished to remain anonymous. The $3,737,500 price for the five-cent coin included a 15 percent buyer's premium. "It is probably the most famous United States rare coin," Rohan said in a statement. Once part of the coin collection owned by Egypt's King Farouk, who was deposed in 1952, the Liberty nickel changed hands several times and featured as part of the plot in a 1973 episode of the well-known CBS TV series "Hawaii Five-O." The value of the rare coin, which was made at the Philadelphia Mint with the Miss Liberty design, crossed the million dollar mark in 2003

Jekyll7 | 01-12-2010 12:08 AM
Re: .Rare coin fetches over �2.3 million in auction Still holding out for the Eliasberg 1913...and some lucky numbers. The upper-end numi-market still seems quite healthy.

newmisty | 01-13-2010 01:28 PM
Re: .Rare coin fetches over �2.3 million in auction Cool! http://www.coinresource.com/guide/ex..._head_1913.htm

Hellsbane | 01-13-2010 02:54 PM
Re: .Rare coin fetches over �2.3 million in auction I beleive there is an even rarer US coin, but the only two minted are, i believe, in government hands. Back when the Sanfran mint was closed, " long before it reopened ", they minted two silver dollars. One was put in the Smithsonian, the other in the buildings cornorstone.

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