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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,563 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 7, 2024 6:34AM

    @Maywood said:
    I was looking at some new images this morning to see if I could identify any additional Eutopia Dollars(HK-1005) and I came across an archived lot from a 2015 Stack's Auction that I overlooked. The NGC encapsulated Eutopia Dollar was listed in the OP but probably from a google search, the listing archived at Stack's has some really interesting information and some pictures of some neat coins. Included in the description is the following: This group was offered (along with an additional Eutopia Dollar, not in this offering) as lot 131 in Presidential Coin and Antique Company's Exonumia Auction #69, The Arlie Slabaugh Collection, in June 2001. Included is a Xerox copy of the 68 page pamphlet published in 1885 by Nicholas Veeder,

    Here's a link to the listing at Stack's:
    https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/1-1HMTF/1886-eutopia-dollar-with-associated-pieces-silver-and-gold-323-mm-hk-1005-rarity-8-ms-62-ngc

    Below are the "coins" which appear to be test/trial pieces of some sort, just the obverses.





    This set was in my collection for a number of years and I consigned them to Stacks. After I bought it from the Presidental auction, Joe Levine relayed to me someone in Pittsburgh wanted to buy only the test pieces (excluding the two Eutopias) from me. I didn’t want to break up the group, so didn’t sell.

    Later, after slabbing both Eutopias (both NGC MS62), I sold one on eBay at the height of the SCD boom. It sold for a record price which still has yet to be beaten.

    The Stacks group above must have sold at the bottom of the market as I think I took a small loss after holding all those years.

    I still have an original Veeder book, but the PDF is available online free.

    I also agree with the R6 designation for the Eutopia. The test pieces are unique.

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