What is the most famous collection of US Proof Gold (pre 1933 gold) and .....................

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 22, 2008 8:36AM

  A couple of collections come to mind: Woodin and Trompeter. Both have long been dispersed.
  
  As for cameos, I don't know. I doubt that either one of those collectors thought to make a special effort to acquire cameos.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
  Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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• rjsriv Posts: 256

  October 22, 2008 9:07AM

  One of the best that you will never get to see was the Lily collection that is now locked up in the Smithsonian. From what I remember there were a few Cameos but as far as being complete it was something special

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  October 22, 2008 9:15AM

  For a short time in 1913, Congressman William Ashbrook had a 33-year run of gold proof sets. He bought them for $2,000 from Elizabeth Gault-Smith (daughter of Edward Bringhurst, Jr. of Wilmington) in Delaware and flipped them a few days later to someone in Milwaukee for a $500 profit.
  
  The Bringhurst collection was dispersed by his daughter following his death and was never accorded the fame of other, nearly-complete collections that were auctioned.
  
  [Source: unpublished research manuscript by Jeff Reichenberger. Verified by the present writer.]
  

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