Dealer Frank S. Robinson will conduct a special auction of closing June 5, with all holed coins. The sale, with no buyer fee, includes about 270 lots, many of them group lots.

Most coins are from one collector, who seemed to love holed coins. After all, one can get 98% of the coin for, usually, a fraction of the price.

The sale includes U.S. and mostly world coins. One notable item is a U.S. 1822 dime, a very rare date, with a plugged hole.

The catalog is posted at www.fsrcoin.com/holey.html

Lot 18. Dime 1822, RARE!! fairly small & neat plugged hole at obv top, otherwise a very decent G/AG, ltly toned, most of LIBERTY visible. Ex Henry Christensen auc in orig env. (Compare an AG-3 sold for $1440, Stack's 1/24; Fair-2 $940, Heritage 6/16; Holed G $705, Heritage 7/15.)
$400