Rare Machin's Mills at Stack's-Bowers Baltimore auction
Whit
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Good evening everyone: In a thread of last Dec. 26 (Link1), I posted a couple of pictures of a colonial that I had very tentatively identified as a rare Machin's Mills piece. The consensus of much-more-informed readers was that the coin was the real deal. So in early January, I took the coin to Stack's/Bowers in NYC for a consult. Cut to the chase: the coin is indeed as suspected ... Vlack 13-87CT, 5 now known .... and it resides in a PCGS holder as lot 364 in the Stack's/Bowers Baltimore auction (Link2)
A different thread on this coin (Link3) asks if this coin was cherry-picked. I stress that the coin belongs to a retired couple who are not numismatists and did not realize what they had. As the fellow who has been helping them dispose of a small accumulation of low-end type material, I confess that I too did not know what they had. But a little research in a good book along with help from the generous folks on this forum has resulted in a nice payday for them. I thank those who advised me on this coin, and I thank PCGS for sponsoring this forum.
Whit
A different thread on this coin (Link3) asks if this coin was cherry-picked. I stress that the coin belongs to a retired couple who are not numismatists and did not realize what they had. As the fellow who has been helping them dispose of a small accumulation of low-end type material, I confess that I too did not know what they had. But a little research in a good book along with help from the generous folks on this forum has resulted in a nice payday for them. I thank those who advised me on this coin, and I thank PCGS for sponsoring this forum.
Whit
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