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Diverse Offerings Push Stack’s Bowers Sale Past $19 Million

The Stack’s Bowers Galleries November 2019 Baltimore Auction brought together collectors of every discipline for an offering of five important collections and numerous additional rarities. In total, more than $17.6 million was realized across more than 6,000 lots of United States coins and related issues. In total, the firm’s official auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Winter Expo realized $19,124,255 across 16 sessions. All prices include the buyer’s fee.

Session 1 of the sale featured numismatic Americana, including Washington Before Boston medals from the collection of Marc McDonald and Presidential Inaugural

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