Thursday night in Orlando Florida at the United Numismatists convention with the Heritage auction
featured rare coins but starred the 1913 Liberty Head nickel. This coin has a very interesting history
behind it being it was the first coin auctioned at six figures. Which was in 1972 for 100,000 dollars
the sale was brokered by Abe Kosoff. And the owner at that time was Edwin Hydeman the coin was
sold to Worldwide Coin Investments of Atlanta. But at Thursday nights auction the coin was auctioned for a hefty 3.7 million dollars.
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