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A Walking Liberty half that Lane acquired at just 8 years old led to a lifetime of collecting one of the finest collections of U.S. coins ever assembled.
The finest known example of a coin once dubbed "the most beautiful of all Pioneer gold coins, and one of the rarest" will take center stage in a new collection when it is sold in Heritage's FUN US Coins Auction Jan. 10-14. Fort Worth coins dealer B. Max Mehl is the source of that praise
Nearly three dozen bids poured in for the finest-certified 1815 B-1 Quarter Dollar, CACG-Certified MS67 until it sold for $126,000 to lead Heritage's US Coins Signature ® Auction to $5,654,911 Dec. 14-17. "The 1815 quarters represented the first Capped Bust design for the denomination by John Reich, the celebrated German-born designer of American coins," says