By Greg Reynolds for Numismaster

Doyle New York, an art and collectibles auction firm in Manhattan, now has an active coin division. This firm’s auction on Sept. 18 was conducted in its gallery at 175 E. 87th St. The most valuable coin in the sale, at $162,000, was a round Panama-Pacific Expo commemorative $50 gold coin that has been graded MS-66 by the Numismatic Guaranty Corp. A second 1915-S round Pan-Pac $50, NGC-graded MS-65, brought $108,000. There were 276 lots in the auction, of which just two did not sell. The average price per lot was more than $8,500, but there were more than 40 lots that realized less than $1,000 each.