Did you
know Stack’s Bowers Galleries in conjunction with Sotheby’s sold an 1823 Newcomb-2 cent graded MS-66 BN (PCGS)
for $376,000, setting a new record for any cent of the Matron Head type. That
record was tied just a few minutes later when the finest known 1839/6 cent,
graded MS-65+ BN (PCGS), brought the same sum. Both of these coins were
featured in the D. Brent Pogue Collection Part V, which crossed the auction block
on March 31, 2017.
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