Australian Auction Info
Melbourne-based Coinworks beat off stiff competition to claim a 1920 Pattern Star shilling at a London auction, setting a new price record.
The coin - one of only seven in existence - sold for £48,300 (about $150,000, with taxes) the highest price for a coin of its make.
It is one of Australia’s rarest coins and considered the best of three of its kind held outside museum collections.
Coinworks director Belinda Downie triumphed in a telephone bidding war to take the iconic shilling, which was spirited away into a private collection in England in the 1920s.

Posted: 07|27|06 at 7:50 am. Filed under: UK News.