Heritage's Nov. 1 and 3 sessions featuring Part IX of the Eric P. Newman collection had some wonderful coins that had been off the market for at least a generation and totaled $4.5 million.

One lot showed the robust interest in a more esoteric corner of the marketplace. An eight-slot leather coin holder, made around 1920, that once held all five of the 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coins,brought $10,800 at Newman IX. The set was purchased intact from the "Col." E.H.R. Green estate - with the famed "nickels" in place - by a partnership of Eric P. Newman and B.G. Johnson. The five 1913Liberty 5-cent coins have long since dispersed, including the most famous example: the George O. Walton example graded Proof 63 by Professional Coin Grading Service, which was long thought to be lostafter allegedly disappearing in a 1962 car crash. That example emerged four decades later and would sell at Heritage's 2013 Central States Numismatic Society auction for $3,172,500.

To read the complete article, see:
Why did this old leather coin holder sell for $10,800?(https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2017/11/why-leather-coin-holder-sold-for-over-ten-thousand.html)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: NOVEMBER 26, 2017 : PCGS Type 1.0 Holder Sold (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n49a13.html)