Bermuda 1989 50 dollars

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Stack's Bowers October 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 74008
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This specimen was lot 74008 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2024), where it sold for $1,320. The catalog description[1] noted, "[{Bermuda|BERMUDA]]. 50 Dollars, 1989. Elizabeth II. NGC PROOF-69 Ultra Cameo. Hogge Money. Bright and flashy with hard mirror fields and frosted intricate devices. This low mintage issue garnered a nearly perfect grade from NGC and is tone, haze or fog." This "Hogge Money" theme was used on several NCLT's of 1989-90.

Recorded mintage: 500.

Specification: 15.60 g, 0.999 fine gold, 27 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Fr-11; KM-59.

Source:

  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the S.P. Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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