A Well-Balanced Selection in the October Torex® Auction
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The Canadian Coinoisseur October Torex® Auction features a well balanced selection of lots, and will be conducted in two sessions on Friday and Saturday the 27th and 28th of October at the Radisson Admiral in downtown Toronto. The 1,859 lots of Coins, Tokens and Paper Money in the sale run the gamut from bulk and group lots through nice collectible pieces to finest known examples. A total of sixty-five consignors contributed to the auction and have provided us with a wonderful mix of numismatic material in diverse categories and a broad range of grades. The sale seems to have something for nearly everyone.
The First Session, at 5:30 pm on Friday the 27th begins with just over one hundred lots of Paper Money, including a near Uncirculated 1912 Train Note, some Choice Uncirculated 1935s, three major printing errors, a Radar Test note and 10,000,000 note. This is followed by nearly one hundred lots of Tokens, including two Side View examples and many Uncirculated pieces. Over forty of the Token lots are ICCS certified pieces, including a LC-10B3 in ICCS VF-30, a UC-1 in ICCS PF-65, a PC-4 in ICCS MS-64 and a LC-60D1 in ICCS AU-50, and among the uncertified pieces are many other high grade and Uncirculated examples. Included in the three dozen lots of Error Coins are a dozen Brockages, of both Tokens and Decimal, and mostly from the 19th century. We received a nice selection of metal printing plates and hand-carved wooden printing blocks that had been used to print the illustrations in the Breton and Leroux catalogues a century and more ago. These we have grouped into over thirty lots, and these are followed by a nice group of Medals. Over one hundred twenty lots of World Crowns and Minors follow, including many high-grade certified 18th and 19th century examples, such as a French 2 Francs of 1832 A in NGC MS-65, a 1765 Nurnberg 30 Kreuzer in NGC MS-66 and a 1798 20 Grana of Naples & Sicily in PCGS MS-65. Among the twenty-eight lots of Gold Coins is the MS-63 example of the 1916C Sovereign from the Mason and Belzberg Collections. Some of the other gold selections are a 1912 Five Dollars in MS-65, an MS-63 example of the 1881 Newfoundland Two Dollars and a 1777 Saxony Ducat in MS-63. The First Session continues with over two hundred eighty lots of Canadian Large and Small Cents including many certified Red Gems. Then follow over one hundred twenty lots of Five Cents Silver, including two ICCS certified examples of the 1921. The Friday evening session concludes with eighty lots of Nickels, among which are an ICCS MS-64 example of the 1926 Near 6 and a PCGS AU-55 Far 6, as well as many ICCS George VI and Elizabeth Gems. The Second Session begins at 5:30 Saturday evening with eighty Bulk Lots, which include some ninety rolls of mintstate George VI and early Elizabeth cents. Then comes over one hundred fifty lots of Maritime Decimal Coins, which include highest graded and near finest known examples. Again, we have received an outstanding selection of Newfoundland coins, including what is likely the finest known example of the 1896 Large 96 Twenty Cents. This is a newly certified ICCS AU-58 from an old collection, and from the same collection is a 1900 Twenty Cents in ICCS MS-62. Also among the Newfoundland lots are many mid-grade pieces and dozens of pieces certified ICCS MS-63, through MS-66. The session continues with nearly one hundred fifty lots of Canadian Ten Cents pieces ranging from nice certified examples in lower grades to several near finest known examples. Over one hundred sixty lots of Twenty Cents and Twenty-Five Cents pieces again run the gamut from small group lots to highest certified examples and there are many ICCS certified Elizabeth Gems. The one hundred fifty lots of Fifty Cents pieces which follow include six Mintstate Victorian examples, the most spectacular of which is an 1872H in ICCS MS-64 with a Superb Eye Appeal certificate. We also received a nearly complete date run of ICCS MS-65 Elizabeth Fifty Cents pieces, and if past auctions are any indication, there will be some heavy competition for these. The October Torex® Auction concludes with over two hundred lots of Silver Dollars, including Specimen examples of the 1935, 1939, 1949 1950, 1951, 1953 and 1964. There are some outstanding PL-66, PL-67 and PL-68 pieces, including two 1956 pieces in ICCS PL-67 Ultra Heavy Cameo. It was a pleasure cataloguing this sale, and with its wide diversity of numismatic material, I am sure it will bring pleasure to a broad range of collectors. The lots can be viewed online and bids can be placed, either in advance or simultaneously on eBay LiveAuctions by going to www.coinoisseur.com and follow the links to the auction. Live lot viewing is scheduled for 12:00 to 9:00pm on Thursday the 26th and from10:00am to 5:00pm on both Friday and Saturday the 27th and 28th of October at the Radisson Admiral on the Toronto waterfront. Printed full-colour catalogues can be ordered online at www.coinoisseur.com or for $15.00 from the Canadian Coinoisseur, #345 Unit 101 - 1001 West Broadway, Vancouver, Canada V6H 4E4. Please visit The Canadian Coinoisseur website for a PDF of the October 2006 Auction catalogue: |
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