What's the price? Forty twice!"
Posted on 05/01/2025 11:37:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Traveller Collection, thought to be the most expensive coin collection to ever come to auction, will be sold off over the next three years - with the first sale taking place on May 20...
When they were finally retrieved by the collector's heirs, the coins were stored in a bank vault and later presented to the auction house for sale. Unfortunately, no further details have been made available about the hiding or discovery of the coins, due to the family's request for privacy.
The collector's detailed records made it easier for the team at the auction house to research the provenance and value of the coins, some of which could be traced back to auctions of some of the greatest collections of late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among the highlights is a 100 ducat gold coin of Ferdinand III of Habsburg, which was minted in 1629 when he was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, the release says. Made up of 348.5 grams of fine gold, it is one of the largest denominations of European gold coins ever minted.
Also featured is an "exceedingly rare" set of five Tomans, minted in Tehran and Isfahan in the late 18th and early 19th century by Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar. Only five complete such sets are known, one of which is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in the United Kingdom.
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I misread this title assuming it was a collection of US coins and wondering about which collection. European and other non-US coins might bring more from non-US collectors.
Sometimes movies or shows will have a painted ad on a building with a price for something on it. Stayed up for years. Cigar, soft drink, item at a store.
No one could do that now unless they use a pixel board or led light version so it could change a lot.
In the earlier gas shortage price increases in the 1970s there was a magazine cartoon of a guy reading a sign as he is gassing up his car:
“Price per gallon may go up as you are filling the tank.”
Yup. It came as a surprise. The actual underlying sources for each one I’ve viewed has been CNN.
Wow. Good to wash down some food.
In the 1940s, McDonald’s sold a “pure beef hamburger” for 15 cents, a “tempting cheeseburger” for 19 cents, and “golden french fries” for 10 cents.
Probably 1955 my younger sister went to the ice cream and lunch place and had to walk back for 2 cents she miscalculated the change she was carrying in her pocket in trying to pay for the 9 cent chocolate cone. Owner put wax paper over it and held it in the freezer for her. Wouldn’t trust her to pay later.
Walked home and back and got the cone.
OMG!
When I was going to college in Ithaca, the Pabst Brewing Co.
was running a promotion. One six-pack for $0.99. And it didn’t
matter if you wanted the 12 oz. or the 16 oz. They were both
99 cents.
Those were indeed the days.
Ha! A perfect story match for a FReeper called SunkenCiv:-)
Now where the heck did I put that metal detector?!
Probably true in this case, very rare items.
Accuweather? No wonder they can’t predict tomorrow’s weather forecast accurately, they’re too focused on coins and crap.
About 1970 or so, my oldest brother was a student at University of Oregon. One day he wanted a yogurt or some such from the vending truck that Springfield Creamery operated on campus, but he only had four cents and the price was five cents. Ken Kesey happened to be working the truck that day and he was kind enough to lend my brother a penny, which my brother repaid the next day.
:^)
In an article about adults who were victimized by bullies as children or adolescents it said a study found that current people are 40% lower in empathy than in the 1960s.
My guess is that they were a Jewish couple and they buried the coins somewhere, probably in what become East Germany. The family probably had to wait decades until German Reunification before they could get the coins back. That would make sense. The couple probably would not have been able to get the coins out of Germany at the time. Of course the question is did that couple make it out of Germany for did they end up in a concentration camp, regardless a remarkable story to tell.
This is like the more modern version of all the stories we read about ancient coins being found buried and we wonder what happened to the person who buried them.
FTA: The pair eventually settled in Europe, despite the dark shadow that Hitler’s Nazi party was casting over the continent. The collector must have felt the imminent threat, however, as the coins were packed carefully into cigar boxes that were then transferred into aluminum boxes and buried underground - where they remained for five decades.
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