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Stack’s ANA Auction Establishes New Market Levels

STACK’S BOWERS BROUGHT the goods for their ANA world coin auction, that’s for sure! There was so much high quality material that I needed to focus this review down to a couple of areas where the collections established entirely new levels for a series by blowing away previous auction records.

This Trade Dollar of Japan, for instance, while estimated reasonably, sold for upwards of ten times that. Partly because you rarely see any of the three dates

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