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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #766 - 1881 NGC MS-65 PL
Half Dollars-Liberty Seated
5 graded MS-65 PL, 23 higher at NGC. A brilliant white gem, some cartwheel effect still roams through the field but is mostly replaced by excellent mirrored qualities, particularly on the near-DMPL obverse. Especially well struck and splendidly preserved, only 10,000 circulation strikes were produced in Philadelphia as opposed to fewer than a thousand proofs, yet the former are often mistaken for specimen strikings. A nick on Liberty's mouth joins some additional diminutive bagmarks here and there, not impeding visual appeal at all even in aggregate.

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The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #550 - 1909-S NGC MS-66
Hammer: $17,500
Gold $20-Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle
13 graded MS-66, zero higher at NGC. Not so many years ago, 1909-S was considered rare in high grade until a hoard of better examples entered the market and helped increase the supply of gem examples. That said, this spectacular coin, showing exceptional copper-gold color, exceeds the gem grade by a full point at NGC, and places it smack dab into the discussion of finest-known pieces at that grading company (PCGS claims two higher graded examples).

Close inspection reveals superbly frosted surfaces and a lack of major marks; the cataloger suggests the one lone depression down the left edge of Liberty's gown may be the most noticeable. On the reverse, what appears at first to be a micro pinscratch could actually be an interesting strikethrough, which could then be of significant interest as a provenance marker for a coin this scarce. An exquisite, much better date within the series that would be almost impossible to beat in terms of quality.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #231 - 18K Yellow Gold Pocket Watch
Hammer: $1,600
Jewelry-Watches
This 18K pocket watch has a beautiful movement marked “E.KOEN, GENEVE, No 77628”. Unfortunately, the chiming mechanism doesn't seem to work. On the inside lid it is engraved “Fr. Stanley Goodwin, Christmas 1891, H.R. EKEGREN GENEVA” and the outside back lid has a fancy monogram of “C.H.S.” Winds, sets and runs. 72.9 dwt.