Karelian Collection. This remarkable example is graded Extremely Fine 40 EPQ by
PMG.
This one-year design type features the profile portrait of
William Henry Seward prominently at the center. A large 50 counter is in an ornamental end panel at left while the red scalloped Treasury Seal is found at right.
Just 22 examples of the type are known, six are in government collections and another permanently resides in the
ANA Museum, leaving 15 pieces available to collectors. The print run for this design was 80,000 notes, of which only 23,500 were distributed. Treasury records report that only $1,250 worth (25 notes) are outstanding. This remarkable note carries an estimate of $150,000-$250,000 USD.
Utah Jazz Owner Larry H. Millerâs Rare 1794 Silver Dollar Fetches Over $1MM
Photo courtesy/copyright Stackâs Bowers Galleries
Rare coin investing authority Steven Contursi, famed for his word record-setting $7.85 million rare coin sale further parlayed into a $10 million deal, nabs another 1794 Silver Dollar at auction for over $1 million
On December 17thStack’s Bowers Galleries presented the sale of the remarkable collection amassed by Utah businessman and Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller that “comprises an astounding array of rarities that are found only in the most legendary cabinets in U.S. numismatics,” according to press materials. At this first public offering of this part of the collection, legendary coin investor Steven Contursi nabbed the coveted “1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar. MS-62 (NGC)” for just over $1 million dollars.
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by Doreen Carvajal
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For more than 70 years, Léone Meyers family has fought to reclaim a looted painting, and yet she cannot bear the thought of displaying it in her Left Bank home, across from the River Seine. The small work, by Camille Pissarro, shows a shepherdess tending her flock, and hangs not far away at the Musée dOrsay, with other precious French impressionist paintings. But the peaceful countryside scene from 1886 is fraught with a backstory of plunder, family tragedy and legal battles that stretch from Paris to Oklahoma. Meyers mother, grandmother, uncle and brother died in Auschwitz. Her father hid the painting in a French bank that was looted in 1941 by the Nazis, and the work vanished in the murky universe of art market collaborators and middlemen. Decades later, in 2012, she discovered the whereabouts of La Bergère, or Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep, in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, at th
Jim Bisognani: It’s Time for My 10th Annual NGC Year in Review – Part 1
To say 2020 was an eventful year would be an understatement. We are all part of history by living through this pandemic, the likes of which the world has not witnessed in over 100 years. Yet, through science, determination and rapidly evolving technology, a fully functional vaccine is being administered to the heroic frontline medical staff and those most in need a mere nine months since COVID-19 infiltrated the US. There is finally a light at the end of this devastating tunnel truly amazing and life-preserving news.
For us in the numismatic world, like everyone, it has been an adjustment to live without all of the things we previously took for granted. Coin shows and other major live venues have been canceled for the lion’s share of 2020. These events were lifelines for many dealers, and their cancelation could have been a crushing blow to many businesses. Yet, the internet shopping phenomenon
1804 silver dollar sells for $3.36 million
Seven figure silver dollars highlight the extraordinary sale.
COSTA MESA, CA
.-Stacks Bowers Galleries announced the sale of the spectacular collection built by Utah businessman and Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller for $23,636,374 (all prices include buyers premium). The collection was sold in two auctions. Part 1, offered in November, realized $9,057,072, while Part 2 realized $14,579,302.
Assembled quietly over many decades, the Larry H. Miller Collection included an astounding array of rarities that are found only in the most legendary cabinets in U.S. numismatics. Offered publicly for the first time by Stacks Bowers Galleries, the Miller Collection has joined the ranks of such revered names as Garrett, Norweb, Eliasberg, Pogue, and other luminaries.