Lot 1885
Original Box for the 1915-S Panama-Pacafic $50.00 Octagonal. Excellent condition. Box only, no coin. Many sales were made to banks throughout the country. Usually they were of special purple-plush boxed coins or sometimes in sets mounted in copper frames. With the close of the Exposition the rare coin exhibit of the Panama-Pacific fair was moved to the Palace of Fine Arts, where it looked very much at home and continued as a sales agency over the post-Exposition period until May 1, 1916. The Department was continued on a mail order basis, down to November 1, 1916, when, at the request of the Exposition and by authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, most of the coins remaining unsold were returned to the mint and destroyed. (Hence the high melt percentage of the $50 octagonal and round gold pieces, in particular.).
Estimated Value $400 - 500.
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| Realized $1,006 |
