1933 Double Eagle Is Going Up For Auction!

I had to go look it up as it's been a long time since I visited this site, but it's pretty neat.

https://invertedjenny.com/

There is a corner plate block with the red plate number showing. There are only 100 stamps on the sheet not 200 so only the one plate number. See the link on the sales data to see the whole sheet at once by position. There is the unique siderographer's block in red.

Col. Green bought the entire sheet (because of course he did, like all 5 of the 1913 Liberty nickels), He gave his wife Mabel one in a locket (position #9), there is a photo of it on the discovery page.

A really neat website to explore and learn about the inverted Jenny stamps.

I had no idea that Stuart Weitzman had earlier purchased the unique one-cent Magenta British Guiana stamp for $9,480,000 at an auction at Sotheby's, which is a world-record price for a stamp. I knew it has expensive but holy cow! The price on the Jenny block was never told but it last sold in 2005 for $2,970,000

All three of these could be close to $30,000,000.00 and still not even half the price of the top priced 1963 Ferrari 250GTO, ($70 million+) but on par with the 7th or 8th highest priced Ferrari.

https://www.ferrarilakeforest.com/m...ve-ferraris/

The rich keep getting richer.

Adding some other cool 1933 Links and threads here on CCF:

http://goccf.com/t/226799

http://goccf.com/t/227178

http://goccf.com/t/93647

http://goccf.com/t/18603

http://goccf.com/t/382514

@kbbpll That's insane! I feel any modern marking done on a historic item will always detract its value, intentional and unintentional. Imagine if coin collectors carved their initials on the most valuable coins they owned!

Amazing auction for three amazing items.

Same.

no time to read all links (note to self)

The total for all 3 items:

1933 St. Gaudens Double Eagle $18,872,250.00
Block of four "Inverted" Jenny misprint Stamps with plate number $4,860,000.00
The Unique British Guiana 1856 One-Cent Black on Magenta Surface-Colored Paper $8,307,000.00

Total on all three lots was $$32,039,250.00

I didn't guess too far off at around $30 million total on all three. Still crazy prices, proving those with money, have lots of it to spend.

Only if I have 300 million $!

I found a few of these recently in my searches here is an excellent example of old pedigree information and cataloging via ink on an old ex-Miller attributed 1786 Connecticut cent, ex-Taylor, (I just purchased a copy of the Taylor catalog and am now looking for a copy (reasonably priced) of the photo plates that were issued.

https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/l...ad-vg-8-PCGS

The Homer Downing coins are probably the most well known and the neatest pedigree with inked ID coins. Homer inked in the H & D on the edge with yellow ink for his initials. Chuck Heck had a coin in his collection he shared with the NBS group in an old e-sylum interview:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylu...0n01a19.html

When Chuck sold his collection that contained a number of inked Hayes & Downing coins and the Goldberg catalog had fabulous photos unfortunately not a single photo of any of the inked edges, though the coins with them were so mentioned in the descriptions.

I too would love to see any examples Condor101 has in his own collection, such an interesting way to pedigree a coin in a fairly non destructive way back then, I know it was and is still fairly common in the ancient collector side.