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The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #855 - Collection of Buffalo nickels in a complete Dansco 7112 album
Nickels-Buffalo
Cris Lindy-Ping Collection. Painstaking effort and time were obviously poured into the assembling of this complete collection of Buffalo nickels that is housed in a Dansco album. Grades range from Very fine through Choice Uncirculated and includes the following notable examples: a 1913 Type 1 (BU), a 1913 Type 2 (XF+), a 1913-D Type 1 (AU), a 1913-D Type 2 (AU+), a 1913-S Type 1 (BU), a 1913-S Type 2 (VF), a 1914 (AU), a 1914-D (BU), a 1914-S (AU), a 1915 (AU+), a 1915-D (AU++), a 1915-S (XF++), a 1916 (AU), a 1916-D (VF), a 1916-S (XF, cleaned), a 1917 (BU), a 1917-D (XF, cleaned), a 1917-S (VF), a 1918-D (VF), a 1918-S (AU+), a 1919 (BU), a 1919-D (AU, cleaned), a 1919-S (AU, cleaned), a 1920 (AU), a 1920-D (XF), a 1920-S (AU), a 1921 (AU++), a 1921-S (XF), a 1923-S (XF+), a 1924 (BU), a 1924-D 9BU), a 1924-S (VF+), a 1925-S (VF), a 1926-D (BU), a 1926-S (XF), a 1927-D (XF+), a 1927-S (AU), a 1928-D (BU), a 1928-S (BU), and a 1937-D Three Legged (AU+). Several other examples litter the 1930’s with AU and BU issues that really round out this terrific set (ck).

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The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #751 - 1818/5 NGC MS-63
Hammer: $4,000
Quarter Dollars-Capped Bust
Robert Michaels Collection. Browning-1. One of the most outrageous coins to exist is the Newman example of this same die-marriage graded NGC MS-67 "star"... but it likely costs a third of a million dollars today. For everyone else, there are nicer choice UNC examples like the present salmon-grey specimen also certified by NGC. The surface seems immaculate -- certainly less bagmarked than one expects of the grade while an impressive strike brings up all of the stars as well as intriguing clash marks strewn into the fields. Minimal planchet striations over the lower bust are likely adjustment marks but they were mostly ironed out by the excellent strike. In this die state, all that remains visible of the underdigit is a small diagonal in the upper loop of "8" and a tiny remnant of the vertical part of the flag adhering to the left.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #309 - Native American Squash Blossom
Hammer: $550
Jewelry-Silver
Circa 1960/1970 and signed by Bobby Thompson of the Navajo nation, this sterling silver (tested, not marked) and turquoise squash blossom necklace features 10 blossoms set between seamed beads and a 5-stone Naja at the bottom. The turquoise cabs are set in a shadow box setting and while most of the background has been blackened nicely, a couple panels need a touch up of color. The turquoise used in the making appears to be from the Sleeping Beauty mine. Condition is very nice for its age with a vintage patina to the metal. Length 30”, 5.54 troy ounces