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Posted 08/07/2015 3:12 pm
Massachusetts Pine Tree coinage, and territorial gold pieces, and a few other very scarce colonials and state coins bring in big bucks even with holes and repaired holes, but rarely above $500k.
For the "real" big bucks, look to the ancients and medievals, where some coins are so impossibly rare that holes don't even remotely make an impact on the value, easily busting through the $500k mark when you get into the "1 of 15" or "1 of 10" or "1 of 5" or even "1 of 2" rarities..
I can't access auction catalogs here at work or I'd go look, but I'd bet on it being a Greek or Roman coin, or possibly pre-Norman coins (Saxon/Mercian/etc.) It's hard to get accurate pricing since most of these coins in this price range are rarely, if ever, offered for sale, being held by old money, royalty, or in museums.
For the "real" big bucks, look to the ancients and medievals, where some coins are so impossibly rare that holes don't even remotely make an impact on the value, easily busting through the $500k mark when you get into the "1 of 15" or "1 of 10" or "1 of 5" or even "1 of 2" rarities..
I can't access auction catalogs here at work or I'd go look, but I'd bet on it being a Greek or Roman coin, or possibly pre-Norman coins (Saxon/Mercian/etc.) It's hard to get accurate pricing since most of these coins in this price range are rarely, if ever, offered for sale, being held by old money, royalty, or in museums.
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