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The Famous (Infamous?) Pennnypacker Auction Centre Sale of the Leonard M. Holland Large Copper Cent

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The Famous (Infamous?) Pennnypacker Auction Centre Sale of the Leonard M. Holland Large Copper Cent
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320.00USDto x*********q+ buyer's premium (48.00)
This item SOLD at 2022 May 15 @ 00:49UTC-5 : EST/CDT
Fine condition. Bound in green cloth. Catalog folded vertically. This was John Adams' copy with prices realized for most of the early dates entered in ink (copied from Dorothy Paschal's catalog following the sale). Adams also added a list of six attendees: Paschal, Norman Stack (in error because it was Harvey Stack), Ray Gallo, C. Douglas Smith, Louis Helfenstein, and Gene Reale. Harvey Stack drove the other five from NYC to the auction being held in Reading, PA, in his station wagon. This consortium agreed to have one person bid on the cents. Later that night there was a second auction among those six back at their hotel. Most of the prices realized at this "second sale" were more than double the price realized at the first sale. Adams recorded the prices paid by Helfenstein for the eight cents he acquired at the second sale.