By Jeremy Bostwick – Senior Numismatist and Cataloger, Stack’s Bowers ……
The January 2025 New York Worldwide Numismatic Conference (NYINC) Public sale of historical and world cash from Stack’s Bowers Galleries will function the third installment of the Richard Margolis Assortment (half II of his intensive array of French materials). Quite a few once-in-a-lifetime treasures will probably be crossing the public sale block, a lot of which have been off the marketplace for a long time.
One such merchandise is a tremendously elusive (and probably distinctive) gold 40 Francs in Proof from 1809. Bearing the left-facing laureate head of Napoleon, it presents gorgeous eye attraction and aptitude, with immense brilliance within the fields and frostiness on the sharply struck gadgets. The one proof hanging of the sort seen throughout each main grading companies, this Gem NGC PROOF-65 specimen additionally hails from prestigious prior collections, having been owned beforehand by Mortimer Hammel and Virgil M. Model. Visit here to view all lots in the Richard Margolis Collection Part III and watch as these gorgeous specimens cross the public sale block this month.
To view our upcoming public sale schedule and future choices, please go to StacksBowers.com the place you might register and take part on this and different forthcoming gross sales.
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Moreover the 40 Francs gold coin in Proof above, Stack’s Bowers is all the time searching for cash, medals, and paper cash for our future auctions, and are presently accepting consignments for our spring 2025 Hong Kong and August 2025 World Showcase auctions. Moreover, we’re accepting consignments for our Collectors Selection On-line (CCO) auctions, the subsequent of which will probably be in February. If you need to be taught extra about consigning, whether or not a single merchandise or a whole assortment, please contact one in every of our consignment administrators at the moment and we’ll help you in reaching the very best return in your materials.
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