Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The world's most expensive coin ever sold.

The Flowing Hair Dollar 1794

Obverse

Reverse
Throughout its history, the 1794 dollar has widely been considered one of the rarest and most valuable of all United States coins. In a September 1880 issue of The Coin Journal, the author noted that a good quality specimen of the 1794 dollar was valued at fifty dollars. In the early 1990s, numismatic historian Jack Collins estimated the surviving number of the coins to be between 120 and 130. In 2013, the finest known example, which was among the earliest coins struck and was prepared with special care, was sold at auction for $10,016,875, the highest selling price of any coin in history. The dollar was graded Specimen-66 by the Professional Coin Grading Service, noting the special conditions under which it was struck. The coin, which had previously been owned by Colonel E.H.R. Green, was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in a public auction in January 2013. It was previously sold in 2010 for what was then a record sum of $7.85 million, to the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation. Steven Contursi, a former owner of the coin, said that it was a "national treasure" and that he was proud to have been its "custodian" from 2003 until its sale in 2010.

source: wikipedia

I wonder what is the most expensive coin ever sold for Malaysian coin? Anyone have a clue?

Cheers and keep on collecting.

2 comments:

RM1 ZG ZH ZJ ZK ZL ZM ZN ZP ZQ ZR ZS ZT ZU ZV 14pieces Zeti Paper Money. Is it replacement banknotes?

This is a very peculiar notes because the prefix starts with Z but it is maybe not a Malaysian replacement note. The condition is from AUNC ...