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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #348 - 1904 PCGS PR-67CAM
Gold $2.50-Liberty Head Quarter Eagle
3 graded PR-67 CAM, 1 higher at PCGS. Between them, PCGS and NGC have managed fewer than fifteen aggregate UCAM/DCAM events in any grade, speaking to the difficulty of locating a specimen with superior contrast. This is partly due to a lack of special effort on the part of the mint to create high-contrast proof dies after the turn of the century. Nevertheless, this coin boasts exceptionally reflective fields on the obverse -- not quite UCAM but close -- and very good mirrors on the reverse. Contrast is thereby enhanced, but truthfully, the frosted-matte texture on the devices is also not strong enough to yield the kind of contrast that a UCAM designation demands.

Technically, the coin appears virtually flawless under 8x magnification, with fields that are as bright and pristine as possible and showing an absolute absence of hairlines. A single, tiny, sintered dot floats in space beneath the hair bun, just right of the smallest imaginable comma-shaped abrasion, and together, these could provide a pedigree marker for future collectors. A lintmark also occupies one point of the eleventh star.

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The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #514 - 1875 PCGS MS-62+
Hammer: $3,900
Gold $20-Liberty Head Double Eagle
31 graded MS-62+, 112 higher at PCGS. Every type-2 double-eagle is a condition rarity, including the present 1875 off a mintage of about 300-thousand. The reverse of this ideally tinted medium gold example truly falls on the cusp of the choice grade level given the lack of major abrasions while the obverse shows a rather fair number of minuscule bagmarks scattering into the fields. Frosted texture within protected areas has avoided contact and suggests the coin was struck with velvety texture Flickers of orange can be found across both sides.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #177 - 14K White Gold Tennis Bracelet
Hammer: $3,600
Jewelry-Bracelets
Traditional tennis bracelet with 42 round brilliant diamonds weighing approximately 6.00 cttw, SI1-I1 clarity, H-I color with a safety clasp for added security. Length 7”, 13.1 dwt.