Green Pond Collection Anchors Heritage Platinum Night Auction; Complete Set of Dahlonega Gold Rarities to Sell at FUN

Dallas, Texas. Heritage Numismatic Auctions is offering the Green Pond Collection, a complete set of the gold coins produced at the Dahlonega Mint, at their FUN 2004 Signature Sale. The collection holds dual PCGS Registry leadership as the #1 Current and #1 All-Time Finest Dahlonega Collection. The Green Pond Collection will be sold as part of Heritage's inaugural Platinum Night in Orlando, January 7th, 2004.

"The Green Pond Collection," according to Heritage President Greg Rohan, "is one of the finest complete collections of the gold rarities minted in Dahlonega. Overall, the quality is simply incredible. Many of the coins are the finest known survivors, and virtually every example is Condition Census - and most of those are low on the list. The Green Pond pedigree will be further enhanced by the fact that nearly every rarity is also a plate coin in the second edition of Doug Winter's Gold Coins of the Dahlonega Mint, 1838-1861."

The coins in the Green Pond Collection were purchased from many sources between 1997 and 2002, with a majority of the rarities coming from Heritage, Doug Winter, and Hancock and Harwell. The list of pedigrees includes an astonishing ?who's who' of American numismatists, from the most important collections and auctions: Harry Bass; I.M. Bates; Chestatee; John Clapp Sr. and Jr.; Connoisseur's; Gaston DiBello; Duke's Creek; Eliasberg; George Elliott; Fairfield; Leon Farmer; Donald Groves; Jascha Heifetz; Mark Hurst; Arthur Lamborn; Melish Collection; Michigan; Miles; Dr. Arthur Montgomery; North Carolina; North Georgia; Pittman; James A. Stack; Winter; and Dr. Philip Weinstein.

According to Dahlonega specialist and Green Pond cataloger Doug Winter, "The Green Pond collection was assembled by an extremely savvy collector who was fascinated by the history of these southern gold coins. He was amazed that an issue that might be considered "common," by the standards of Dahlonega Half Eagles, was actually incredibly rare by the standards of most of the twentieth century coins that he had been purchasing. Thus followed six years of careful and fortuitous purchases. The result of his labor is one of the truly great specialized collections of United States gold coins to ever appear at public auction."

Full-color, enlargeable images of the Green Pond coins are currently viewable on the Heritage website, www.HeritageCoin.com. Membership in Heritage's website community is free.

Green Pond Highlights

1855-D Gold Dollar MS62 PCGS

1860-D Gold Dollar MS62 PCGS

1861-D Gold Dollar MS63 PCGS

1840-D Quarter Eagle MS61 NGC

1841-D Quarter Eagle MS63 PCGS

1855-D Quarter Eagle MS60 PCGS

1856-D Quarter Eagle MS60 PCGS

1854-D Three Dollars MS61 PCGS

1842-D Large Date Half Eagle MS61 PCGS

1845-D Half Eagle MS65 PCGS

Catalogs for this sale will be available from Heritage, c/o Sonia Magdaleno, 100 Highland Park Village, Second Floor, Dallas, TX 75205. All of the lots are displayed in full color on the Heritage website at www.HeritageCoin.com.