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Please Note: A 15% Buyers' Premium is added to the hammer price of all lots in this sale.
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Lot Title:
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1879-CC ANACS F-12 details/heat damaged/tooled/altered surfaces.
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Description:
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The ANACS description could not more aptly describe the condition of this Carson City product. Hardly recognizable as an genuine coin at first glance, prudent examination of the date and mintmark positioning is required to lead to successful attribution as an authentic yet t severely altered double-eagle. Extreme granularity seems to have been caused by heating the coin, possibly with a blow torch, and then the whole coin was polished, followed by a subsequent attempt to smooth the left obverse side. Bizarre! But genuine. Genuinely bizarre?
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Low Estimate:
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$825.00 |
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High Estimate:
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$900.00 |
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Lot Status:
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Bidding has been closed for this lot. |
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Hammered Price: |
$1,125.00
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Price Realized:
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$1,293.75 |
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Price history for items of the same classification:
| Lot # | Auction | Current Bid or Hammer Price | Description |
| 448 | The Collector's Auction on 10/20/2006 | $4,500.00 |
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1879-CC AU.
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Original mint luster can be observed around the devices of both the obverse and reverse. At some point in time this coin may have been lightly wiped. It has bright orange color and has only a few... |
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