Another Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction at the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo is now in the history books, with a huge showing at 2016 Spring Expo. When the gavel fell for the final time, the total prices realized were well above pre-auction estimates, with more than $13.5 million in sales!
Stack’s Bowers reports:
Part II of the Twin Leaf Collection of Middle and Late Date large cents opened the sale, and eager collectors bid with vigor in the auction gallery, on the telephone, and over the Internet. The Twin Leaf Collection was masterfully assembled over the course of several years and included numerous gem coppers of 1816-1857, with pedigrees in many instances that dated back to the 19th century. Among the highlights of the Twin Leaf Collection was lot 10192, a popular 1839/6 overdate graded by PCGS as AU-53 that brought $23,500.