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1855 $50 Coin Highlights Heritage FUN Auction

The finest known example of a coin once dubbed “the most beautiful of all Pioneer gold coins, and one of the rarest” will take center stage in a new collection when it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ FUN U.S. Coins Auction Jan. 10-14.

Fort Worth coin dealer B. Max Mehl is the source of that praise for the 1855 Kellogg & Co. $50 graded PF-64 Cameo by PCGS, certified by CAC (Kagin-4, High R.6), of which only 14 examples are known to present-day collectors – none with a higher grade than the example that is up for grabs in the first major auction of the new year. It has been called the

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