The Cambridge News published an article October 4, 2016 about a local woman who brought a Chilean coins to a BBC Antiques
Roadshow expert and later sold it for £38,400. -Editor
A tiny coin owned by an unnamed woman from Cambridge has been sold at an auction – for a staggering £38,400.
The little Chilean peso – a coin which nowadays is worth an eighth of a penny – is one of the rarest in the world.
It was part of a collection put together by the woman's late father not long after the Second World War.
It was identified by John Foster, the BBC Antiques Roadshow expert at an auction valuation day.
The auction was staged in London by Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals and jewellery specialists. A spokesman said: “Bidding started
at £18,000 and quickly rose to a final hammer price of £32,000. With the auctioneers' commission added the anonymous buyer paid £38,400.
“The pre-sale estimate was £12,000 to £15,000, so this was more than twice as much as expected.
“The peso was part of a collection of coins assembled by the woman's late father during the years following the Second World War. None of the
rest of the collection was particularly unusual or valuable and she had no idea when or where he acquired the coin, which is regarded as a classic
Latin American rarity by international collectors."
He added the woman, who had asked to remain anonymous, had revealed her father had never been to Chile.
He said: “Not surprisingly she was over the moon when she found out what the coin was."
To read the complete article, see:
Ker-ching! Rare coin rings
up £38,400 at auction (/www.cambridge-news.co.uk/ker-ching-rare-coin-rings-up-38-400-at-auction/story-29777801-detail/story.html)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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