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Argentina (Tierra del Fuego, Popper), 1 gramo, 1889, encapsulated NGC MS 63.

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Argentina (Tierra del Fuego, Popper), 1 gramo, 1889, encapsulated NGC MS 63.
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Argentina (Tierra del Fuego, Popper), 1 gramo, 1889, encapsulated NGC MS 63. Janson-7; KM-TN5; Fr-2. Lustrous, fully detailed and beautifully toned, popular as issued by the Romanian-Jewish gold-prospector Julius Popper using gold dust found on the beach of El Paramo in the Patagonian peninsula. Popper's expedition achieved a sort of autonomy, with its own army and coins and stamps, until his sudden death in 1893. Popper gold coins rarely come up for sale, and this particular example is among the finest known graded by NGC (top 5 in NGC census).