The Dallas Bank pedigree
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IMO, this is one of the forgotten pedigrees of recent years. The coins were sold raw, in a joint Sotheby's and Stack's auction, in the month following 9/11. It was a gold coin collection owned by a wealthy Texas man who died young in his 40's. Has anyone ever seen a gold coin with the "Dallas Bank" pedigree?
Here's Doug Winter's account of the sale, from one of his blogs:
<<8. Dallas Bank Collection, Stack’s/Sotheby’s 2001
This collection actually belonged to Jeff Browning, a collector who was active in the Dallas area in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. I had heard about these coins for years and despite the fact that I spent essentially my entire adult life in Dallas I had never had the chance to see the coins (as they were kept in a bank vault in Dallas).
The meat of this collection was a set of Double Eagles which was complete from 1850 through 1932. It included one of just two known examples of the rare 1861 Paquet Reverse as well as Condition Census examples of many of the New Orleans Type One issues. My personal favorite coin in the sale was a fantastic Uncirculated 1879-O (easily the finest known) on which I was outbid by a prominent Midwestern collector.
My strongest memory of this sale is not coin-related. It was held in New York just a few weeks after the 9/11 bombings and I can remember taking the subway downtown with a friend and visiting Ground Zero. It still smelled of smoke and chemicals and many of the shrines which had been erected to the dead were still intact. It was one of the most chilling and moving mornings of my life. >>
Here's Doug Winter's account of the sale, from one of his blogs:
<<8. Dallas Bank Collection, Stack’s/Sotheby’s 2001
This collection actually belonged to Jeff Browning, a collector who was active in the Dallas area in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. I had heard about these coins for years and despite the fact that I spent essentially my entire adult life in Dallas I had never had the chance to see the coins (as they were kept in a bank vault in Dallas).
The meat of this collection was a set of Double Eagles which was complete from 1850 through 1932. It included one of just two known examples of the rare 1861 Paquet Reverse as well as Condition Census examples of many of the New Orleans Type One issues. My personal favorite coin in the sale was a fantastic Uncirculated 1879-O (easily the finest known) on which I was outbid by a prominent Midwestern collector.
My strongest memory of this sale is not coin-related. It was held in New York just a few weeks after the 9/11 bombings and I can remember taking the subway downtown with a friend and visiting Ground Zero. It still smelled of smoke and chemicals and many of the shrines which had been erected to the dead were still intact. It was one of the most chilling and moving mornings of my life. >>
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It's "syrup" now.
Very, very nice.