$36 Million Platinum Night Session Drives Heritage’s $62 Million FUN Auction
Published January 18th, 2008
Two million dollar coins were sold during the course of Thursday’s Platinum Night session by Heritage Auction Galleries, the Official Auctions of the FUN 2008 Orlando Convention. Total prices realized from Heritage’s coin auctions exceeded $50 million, and another $10 million in rare currency was auctioned in Heritage’s second largest auction ever. Results from both auctions have been posted by Heritage in their Permanent Auction Archives at HA.com. When proceeds from Final Session Auctions for coins and currency are concluded, plus Post Auction Buys from both events are combined, the total prices realized are expected to exceed $62 million. An additional $4.3 million was realized in Heritage’s Signature auction of Ancient and World Coins held at the NYINC just prior to FUN.
“We are simply thrilled,” commented Heritage President Greg Rohan, “that two coins out of the incredible Madison Collection each broke the $1 million mark – both were 1796 quarter eagles, one without stars and one with. Lot 3058 was the Madison 1796 $2.50 with No Stars, certified by PCGS as MS65 (Breen-1, Breen-6113, Bass-3002, BD-2, High R.4) and which realized: $1,725,000. This coin, the single finest graded at PCGS, was simply the finest of the first quarter eagles. Its pedigree included Lorin Parmelee, Brock, the University of Pennsylvania, Philip H. Ward, Jr., Lelan Rogers, Numisma ‘95, and A Gentleman’s Collection.
