October 2008 Torex

Auction Details

The Canadian Coinoisseur October Torex® Auction consists of 3030 lots, which will be sold in three sessions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday the 23rd, 24th and 25th of October at the Hilton Toronto Airport. Among the outstanding aspects of this auction are the multiples of most of the key dates in the Canadian Decimal series. For example, among the Fifty Cents Pieces there are two 1870 No LCWs, six 1872H Inverted A Over Vs, five 1890Hs, two 1921s, forty-one examples of the 1932 and seven examples of the 1947 Maple Leaf Curved 7. Around ninety percent of the lots have been certified and the total catalogue value is around $3 million.

The First Session, at 5:30 pm on Thursday the 23rd begins with a few bulk lots, Mint Sets, and Error Coins, then progresses through Gold Coins, World Crowns and Minors, Tokens, Medals and Maritime Decimal Coins. Then come nearly 350 lots of Five Cents Pieces and the session concludes with over 430 lots of Twenty and Twenty-Five Cents Pieces.

Session Two, at 5:30 pm on Friday the 24th of October, begins with over 220 lots of Small Cents, continues with over 340 lots of Ten Cents Pieces and concludes with 430 lots of Fifty Cents Pieces.

Session Three, at 5:30 pm on Saturday the 25th commences with over 270 lots of Large Cents, continues with over 420 lots of Silver Dollars and concludes with 329 lots of high grade Paper Money, mostly certified by PMG.

There are fifty-six consignors contributing to this sale. Four of these had old-time collections and were attempting to assemble Canadian Decimal complete. For this reason, there are multiples of many of the major key dates, many of which infrequently appear even individually at auction. Of the 3030 lots in the sale, nearly 2500 are Canadian Decimal Coins, and well over 90% of these are certified by ICCS. This group amalgamates into Canada near-complete in an outstanding mix of grades from nice collectible pieces to the finest known examples. There appears to be something for nearly everyone. The Paper in the sale, except for the Bank of Canada Sales, is quite likely the most consistently high-grade grouping to come to auction in this country.

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1892 Twenty Dollars Bank of Hamilton2731 - 1892 Twenty Dollars Bank of Hamilton
Canadian Coinoisseur
1892 Twenty Dollars Bank of Hamilton Specimen, CH-345-16-06S Serial Number 04361 B, PMG Extremely Fine 40 Exceptional Paper Quality. Plus the Vignette
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
Sold to hoosierdoug for (700.00 + 140.00BP) = 840.00
 
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1892 Fifty Dollars Bank of Hamilton2732 - 1892 Fifty Dollars Bank of Hamilton
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1892 Fifty Dollars Bank of Hamilton Specimen, CH-345-16-08S Plate Position C, PMG Choice Uncirculated 63 Exceptional Paper Quality
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
Sold to floor for (950.00) = 950.00
 
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1934 Five Dollars Imperial Bank2733 - 1934 Five Dollars Imperial Bank
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1934 Five Dollars Imperial Bank, Jaffray, CH 375-22-04 Serial Number J295152 D, PMG Choice Uncirculated 63 Exceptional Paper Quality
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 650.00 - 800.00
Sold to floor for (500.00) = 500.00
 
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1934 Ten Dollars Imperial Bank2734 - 1934 Ten Dollars Imperial Bank
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1934 Ten Dollars Imperial Bank, Jaffray, CH 375-22-08 Serial Number H210906 A, PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 Exceptional Paper Quality
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 650.00 - 800.00
Sold to clarkedc13 for (450.00 + 90.00BP) = 540.00
 
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1939 Ten Dollars Imperial Bank2735 - 1939 Ten Dollars Imperial Bank
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1939 Ten Dollars Imperial Bank, CH 375-24-04 Serial Number E064764 C, PMG Choice About Uncirculated 58 Exceptional Paper Quality
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 550.00 - 700.00
Sold to floor for (350.00) = 350.00
 
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1858 One Dollar International Bank2736 - 1858 One Dollar International Bank
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1858 One Dollar International Bank, Falls, One Signature, Brown Protectors, Fitch, Red Serial Numbers, CH 380-10-04 Serial Number 15517 A. A well cent
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 375.00
Sold to floor for (260.00) = 260.00
 
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1858 Two Dollars International Bank2737 - 1858 Two Dollars International Bank
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1858 Two Dollars International Bank, One Signature, Red Protectors, Fitch, Large Blue Serial Number, CH 380-10-10-12a Serial Number 16692 A, PMG Choic
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 375.00 - 475.00
Sold to floor for (280.00) = 280.00
 
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1858 Five Dollars International Bank2738 - 1858 Five Dollars International Bank
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1858 Five Dollars International Bank, One Signature, Ochre Protectors, Fitch, Small Blue Serial Number, CH 380-10-12-16a Serial Number 10907 A, PMG Ch
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 500.00 - 650.00
Sold to floor for (350.00) = 350.00
 
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1880 $5 Merchant’s Bank of Halifax2739 - 1880 $5 Merchant’s Bank of Halifax
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1880 Five Dollars Merchant’s Bank of Halifax Specimen, CH 465-20-02S, Serial Number 00000 A, PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 Exceptional Paper Quality
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to floor for (1,200.00) = 1,200.00
 
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1896 $5 Merchant’s Bank of Halifax2740 - 1896 $5 Merchant’s Bank of Halifax
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1896 Five Dollars Merchant’s Bank of Halifax Specimen, CH 465-22-04S, Serial Number 00000 A, PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 Exceptional Paper Quality
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
Sold to floor for (1,500.00) = 1,500.00
 
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