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Angelo43

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  1. I have a date run of these and many raw pieces as I have been collecting these since I was in high school( I'm 69) Many of them are going to NGC now Just need one to grade
  2. Some of my 20 lire ,gold and silver are going to Heritage this year.
  3. Pics straight from NGC or PCGS Thank you but not my doing
  4. So thought Heritage. Other than trying to call the elderly sister and ask for a letter confirming my thoughts I can't think of any other avenues to pursue. I really don't want to bother an elderly person. i did think of trying to call the Diocese he oversaw but thought that was overstepping also. Also here's some older ones just back from NGC
  5. Thank you They are on the way to Heritage along with many others that I have decided to liquidate. I don't think the Cardinal bought many in the States but I am probably wrong. According to the seller he received many of them from the Pope himself. This was according to the pictures that the sister showed him along with a beautiful Chalice that he was also trying to sell.
  6. I totally agree but and this is a big but, what if the only reason that the sister sold the medals in this manner was to avoid the income/estate tax in Canada? If that was the only reason and there is very little likelihood of her being found out in these pages by a Canadian govt official then why not try to find out? In addition this is a mystery. would you not try to find out similar information on a topic that your interested it?
  7. Not really, I have it narrowed down to the above Cardinal but little else to prove my suppositions.
  8. Tried them and did not like them at all because of the process to seal them. too time consuming
  9. Did you get the provas from Nomisma? I got some from them too
  10. Has anyone ever won any coins from them. I have won some Italian provas today and wondering if anyone has any experience with the shipping from Europe? Also, prices were very strong leading me to believe in Europe the world coins are very hot right now. Anybody have any thoughts
  11. The medals are authenticate I'm trying to prove provenance
  12. Many of them are holdered in PCGS and NGC that I sent to them Pictures are on PCGS chat and I will post some of the NGC ones here Soon! Payments were reasonable for Papal medals
  13. I have checked the ones that died in the 2010 2020 dates and narrowed it down to the three because of the last date of the medal 2016. the archive photos of the Vatican is an interesting idea and could put me on the right track. The sister did not want to tell anyone her name and was very private about the whole transaction. I do believe the seller. He also paid cash for the medals. It's an interesting story. The medals range from the 1600's to 2016 and are mostly the official Papal medals, with some others. Many are the 1800's restrikes but there seems to be a way to tell if they are original but except for the telltale line on the edge signifying a cast restrike i'm a novice at it.
  14. I am looking for some help from the Numismatic community. I have acquired approximately 250 Papal medals from an eBay seller in upstate New York. He acquired them, purportedly, from the sister of a Roman Catholic Cardinal after his death. I am currently preparing the Papal medals for inclusion into an auction at either Heritage or Bowers. There seems to be some consensus that says that if I could prove the provenance of the medals that they would be more sellable. The last of the medals was the Papal medal of 2016, year four, of Frances reign. There were three Cardinals that died after 2015. One of them was Bernard Frances Law who was an only child, therefore, he could not have a sister that would have sold these metals The other Cardinals were William Wakefield Baum and William Henry Keeler. I have been able to find out that Cardinal Keeler has two sisters both living in Toronto. The seller was very forthcoming in telling me that the sister who sold these medals wanted only cash and would not allow him to keep any of the photographs that she showed him showing the Cardinal receiving some of these medals from the Pope. He also showed me pictures of a chalice the was made from the Almy company in Spain for the Cardinal. I could not find out anything from them after repeated calls, except the for Cardinals Baum and Keeler, they bought shirts from them. Cardinal Baum also died in 2015, he might have received the 2016 medal, but I doubt it. It’s my guess that William Henry Keeler was the Papal medals collector however I have no proof of that, merely conjecture. I have obviously looked through the Internet extensively, but I cannot find any reference to either of these two Cardinals being Papal medals collectors. I am asking the community to help me to see if anyone out there knows for a fact which cardinal could’ve been the collector. I’m more than happy to take any PM but would love to start a conversation on the boards. Thanks very much for all your help.
  15. Italy 50 lire republic 1946 to 2001