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Heritage Auctions' Coin Newsletter [Read this newsletter online]( [Heritage Auctions]( [Coin News]( In This Issue: • [Take our Annual Auction Survey](#collector-a) • [Seldom Seen Selections: Condition Census 1881 Proof $3](#collector-b) • [Website Tips: Create a Wantlist from a Search](#collector-c) • [This Week's Top Ten](#top10) • [Around Heritage Auctions](#around) • [Is It Time To Sell?](#sell) • [Current Auctions](#current) March 20, 2018 [Newsletter Archive]( [Last Issue]( []Take our Annual Auction Survey You Can Win $10,000 to spend at Heritage Auctions Heritage is the World's Largest Numismatic Auctioneer, but we're always striving to improve, and so today we are asking for your help. Let us know what you collect and what you'd like to see in upcoming Heritage Coin auctions. By [answering all of these questions fully]( you can help Heritage to continue to build auctions with the material you want to see. And remember, if you fully answer this confidential survey you may be chosen to win one of these valuable prizes: - Grand Prize: $10,000 to spend at Heritage Auctions* - First Prize: Five winners - On any single consignment that exceeds $10,000 in value, Heritage will add $1,000 to the final settlement amount you receive.* - Second Prize: Ten winners - On any single consignment that exceeds $10,000 in value, Heritage will add $500 to the final settlement amount you receive.* - Third Prize: Ten winners will have the opportunity to have a Heritage representative review their collection, give a professional current market evaluation, and have up to 30 coins certified by PCGS or NGC at Heritage's expense (up to a $5,000 value).* - All respondents will receive a coupon to auction one item (valued above $1,000) free of seller's fees, in one of Heritage's 2018/2019 auctions.* [Take the Survey Now]( *It is a condition of acceptance that (a) for any prize valued at more than $600, winner will comply with reporting under Federal law in accordance with 1099-MISC requirements; and (b) permission is granted to use winner's name and photograph in advertisements, website promotions, and for other promotional purposes as determined by Heritage Auctions, unless prohibited by law. Your confidential, completed survey must be completed by May 15, 2018, to participate in the drawing. Only one entry per person is eligible to win. Winner will be announced on our website. Thank you, and good luck! [Back to Top](#top) []Seldom Seen Selections: Condition Census 1881 Proof $3 [1881 $3 PR66 Cameo PCGS. CAC]( [1881 $3 PR66 Cameo PCGS. CAC]( With only 500 circulation strikes produced, the 1881 three dollar gold piece boasts the lowest mintage in the series and is an important key date. High-grade survivors of the circulation issue are rare. Equally rare, however, is the proof variant. Paul Taglione once wrote (1986): 1881 Proofs rank amongst the best preserved of the series and there are some really exceptional specimens of this date ... I would dare claim that it is distinctly possible (likely?) that there are more high quality Proofs known than counterpart business strikes." This remains true strictly in terms of high-grade populations, but it misrepresents the availability of the 1881 proof overall. The accepted mintage of the proof issue is 54 coins, but this was not always known. In the Dr. Wheeler, et al Collection sale (5/1937), Thomas Elder stated that "probably not over 15 or 20 proofs" were struck, which was in line with the perceived rarity of the issue at the time. Estimates of the mintage gradually increased over time, and the 54-coin figure began appearing in the 1960s. In his Proof Encyclopedia, Walter Breen presented coinage figures drawn from Mint records, consisting of 40 pieces issued in gold proof sets on February 9th, 10 additional coins delivered in late March, and four more in the final quarter — a total of 54 proofs. The modern-day availability of this issue is one of more active debate. Q. David Bowers, in his 2005 treatise The United States Three Dollar Gold Pieces: 1854-1889 , estimates the number known to be 45 or more pieces. However, in years past, the availability of proofs has been skewed by misattribution of prooflike circulation strikes. David Akers (1979) wrote: "... deceptive first strikes exist that are virtually indistinguishable at first glance from actual proofs." The combined PCGS and NGC certified proof population records 76 grading events, which is highly inflated by resubmissions. Since our Permanent Auction Archives began in 1993, we have offered an 1881 proof three dollar piece on only 20 occasions, including two appearances of an impaired coin. In our experience, this issue is significantly rarer than Bowers' estimate of at least 45 coins suggests. [The Premium Gem]( offered in our March 29-31 [auction in Dallas]( is among the finer 1881 proofs known and is tied for the finest example that we have seen. It is the only PR66 coin that we have ever handled in a PCGS holder, and it has been more than 13 years since its last offering. The only semi-recent appearance of a comparable Cameo proof is a PR66 Cameo NGC coin in lot 5844 of the 2013 FUN Signature Auction, which realized $47,000. This CAC-approved PCGS coin has the potential to set a new price record. The bright surfaces display orange-gold color and are impeccably preserved. The cameo contrast is outstanding, the devices appearing to float atop liquidlike fields. The strike is full, and eye appeal is seemingly unsurpassable. This is a Condition Census coin at PCGS, which lists two PR66 Cameos, two PR66 Deep Cameos, and a lone PR67 Cameo finer. CAC has awarded green labels to just two Cameos in this grade and one finer. [Back to Top](#top) []Website Tips: Create a Wantlist from a Search With our new My Wantlist feature, we now offer the ability to save any search you make on the Heritage site exactly as you made it! [Create a Wantlist from a Search] Perform any search on the Heritage website, exactly as you would normally. Use the left side of the page to refine your search as you see fit. For coins, you can include grades, designations such as DMPL or BN, grading services, and even things like whether the coin is available with a CAC sticker. To save your search, click on the "Create Wantlist" button immediately above the beginning of the search results on the page. You will see an overlay that looks something like this: [Create a Wantlist from a Search] Here you are trying to save a search for 1883-CC Morgan dollars in MS67 and with a regular CAC sticker. Review your selections to make sure they are what you want. A new feature in My Wantlist is the Wantlist Nickname. By default, the nickname is the keyword you used on a search. However, you can change it to anything you want, such as 1883-CC MS67, or CAC Superb Gem, or Fred, or anything else. This allows you to easily identify the search as you see fit. There is no requirement to have a nickname on a wantlist search; it is for your ease of identification only. Once you are satisfied with your search, click "Create Wantlist", and the search will be saved for you. You will receive emails on the wantlist – if you want to receive them – when matches become available for bidding or immediate purchase. Some selections on the left side of the search results cannot be saved as a part of a wantlist; these mostly have to do with individual auctions or current prices. In other words, you can't save a search for a 1883-CC dollar from the April 2017 CSNS auction because the April 2017 CSNS auction will not happen again after April 2017. [Back to Top](#top) [] This Week's Top Ten [1888 $3 PR66+ Cameo PCGS. CAC]( [1888 $3 PR66+ Cameo PCGS. CAC]( The ten most frequently offered proof three dollar gold pieces in Heritage auctions: - 1888 - 1887 - 1876 - 1883 - 1886 - 1889 - 1882 - 1884 - 1885 - 1881 Do you have a suggestion for a future top ten list? [Send it to us!](mailto:StewartH@HA.com?subject=Top Ten List Suggestion) [Back to Top](#top) [] Around Heritage Auctions Heritage Spring Wine Auction Set To Clear $3 Million [Heritage Auctions]( Impeccable vintages from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Château Haut-Brion and Château Mouton Rothschild crown Heritage Auctions' next [Fine & Rare Wine Auction]( March 23-24 in Beverly Hills, California. More than 100 lots of DRC, 240 lots of First Growth Bordeaux and Petrus and nearly 100 lots of Harlan and Screaming Eagle lead the sale. The auction, which will feature a total of more than 1,600 lots, will take place at the Heritage Beverly Hills Gallery and be simulcast to Hong Kong. "It's a great time to sell wine as the global market has never been thirstier for the best of the best," Heritage Auctions Fine and Rare Wine Senior Director Frank Martell said. "We're looking forward to a strong sale and a busy first half of 2018." Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, of course, leads the list of highlights. Hot on the heels of two $100,000+ lots in 2017, DRC is expected for top-lot honors in March, including: - [Romanee Conti 2002 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (3)]( (est. $32,500-42,500) - [Romanee Conti 2006 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (2)]( (est. $20,000-28,000) - [Grands Echezeaux 1990 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (12)]( (est. $20,000-28,000) - [Romanee Conti 1990 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (1)]( (est. $16,000-21,000) - [Romanee Conti 1982 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Bottle (2)]( (est. $16,000-21,000) Pauillac, a village on Bordeaux's Médoc peninsula, produced [Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2000 Pauillac Bottle (12)]( (est. $18,000-24,000), while [Richebourg 1981 H. Jayer Bottle (2)]( could draw $16,000-21,000 or more. Further highlights include rare bottles of Henri Jayer purchased on release from a local consignor an East Coast consignment of rare large format Sine Qua Non, including the rarest double magnum of SQN ever to come to market: the [Sine Qua Non Red 2001 Rudy Matt Cuvee Double-Magnum (1)]( (est. $15,000-20,000). Purchased by Rudy Kurniawan and a friend at the Hospice du Rhone, the whole barrel was bottled and kept by these two collectors. Three double magnums were bottled, and this item, #1 of 3, is certainly the most desirable. [More information about Rare Wine Auctions]( [Back to Top](#top) []Is It Time To Sell? An exciting consignment opportunity presents itself, as Heritage proudly presents an auction of US coins on June 13-18 in conjunction with the Long Beach Coin & Collectibles Expo. Heritage's Long Beach auctions have been fixtures, in conjunction with Long Beach coin shows, for literally decades. These auctions have a long-established record of attracting eager bidders and producing strong sale results for consignors, and we expect this pattern to continue. You can personally benefit from Heritage's connections to buyers from around the world and sell your coins alongside the millions of dollars of rare, desirable and important offerings that have already been consigned. The [consignment deadlines]( of April 30 will be here before you know it. Call our Consignment Hotline at 1-800-872-6467 x1000 today! June 13 - 18 Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature Auction Consignment Deadline: April 30, 2018 [David Mayfield]( Vice President, Numismatic Auctions [David@HA.com]( 1-800-US-COINS ext. 1000 Interested in Selling? 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