The following is a news story from CoinWorld - In connection with John Kraljevich's research on certain provenances of coins in the D. Brent Pogue Collection Part III sale, set to cross the block next Feb. 9, I have been involved in helping to track down obscure information. I have always held that a coin is worth one point on its own, but another point of desirability can be added by learning the art, history, and romance concerning it.
In a related scenario, John W. Adams, whose collection of 1794-dated copper cents I cataloged and Bowers and Merena Galleries sold in 1984, "collected collectors" in addition to the coins themselves. The aura of each coin was increased by adding the biographies of past owners. Nearly all of the Pogue coins have rich pedigrees, some dating back to the era in which the coins were struck.
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