The Dr. Frank Sedwick Collection of Colombian Republic Gold Coins

This sale of the Frank Sedwick collection is a milestone in Colombian numismatics for a number of reasons. Above all, it is the first-ever offering of a collection of EXCLUSIVELY Colombian Republic gold coins. Frank's research notes during his collecting and writing reveal that all previous sales of significant Colombian Republic gold coins were small parts of general Latin American gold-coin collections, sometimes from even larger world-gold agglomerations. The big collections that have offered important Colombian Republic gold coins after Frank's time, like Norweb (Spink America, March 3-4, 1997), Eliasberg (American Numismatic Rarities, April 18-19, 2005) and Millennia (Ira & Larry Goldberg, May 24-28, 2008), were equally broad and diffuse, if not more so. Most likely this is due to the fact that the field of Colombian numismatics is complicated, fraught with ever-changing denominations and design schemes, but with enough recognized rarities to keep the wealthy "trophy collectors" happy. One wonders how much the big collectors who happened to have the Colombian gold trophies really knew about their coins.

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