Ultra High Relief Gold Coin Sets Record $4.75 Million

1907 Saint-Gaudens Ultra High Relief

Iconic Saint-Gaudens issue is considered one of the most desirable and valuable coins in numismatics One of America’s greatest coins, the 1907 Saint-Gaudens Ultra High Relief, has changed hands for a record $4.75 million in a private transaction between GreatCollections Coin Auctions of Irvine, Calif., and Heritage Auctions of Dallas, Texas. The 1907 Saint-Gaudens Ultra … Read more

GNA Offers 2022 ANA Summer Seminar Scholarship

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The Georgia Numismatic Association (GNA) is accepting applications for two scholarships for the 2022 American Numismatic Association Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs. The scholarships are available to both young numismatists (YN), age 13 to 22, and GNA senior numismatists. Completed applications and recommendations must be received by January 16, 2022. Each scholarship covers the minimum … Read more

Barbara J. Gregory New CSNS Magazine Editor

Barbara J. Gregory

Barbara J. Gregory, the former Editor of The Numismatist, the monthly magazine of the American Numismatic Association (www.money.org), has been named Editor of The Centinel, the quarterly journal of the Central States Numismatic Society (www.CentralStatesNumismaticSociety.org). She will succeed Gerald Tebben who is retiring this coming summer after 12 years as Editor of the award-winning CSNS … Read more

Artifacts from Captain of Doomed Submarine Conserved

New Exhibit Showcasing Collection Will Launch this Thanksgiving Day Weekend The man who Captained the Hunley died shortly after making world history when the legendary submarine vanished.  His remains were uncovered over a century later during excavation of the crew compartment. The Clemson University team working to save Captain George Dixon’s artifacts have completed conservation … Read more

Counterfeit 2021 Silver Eagle Coins

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Recently, ACEF task force investigators were called out to a local coin shop in the Dallas/Fort Worth area where a dealer unknowingly bought a quantity of counterfeit 2021 Silver Eagle coins. Listen to Doug Davis, Director of Anti-Counterfeiting, explain what they found when they evaluated the coins the dealer purchased.

A $20 Gold Piece Straight Out of the Old West Sells for $1.62 Million to Set World Record

1870 CC $20 obverse

The 1870-CC Double Eagle, minted in Carson City, is just one of the highlights in Heritage Auctions’ ongoing US Coins event A shoot-out straight out of the Old West drove the final price of a 151-year-old gold coin to a world record Thursday night at Heritage Auctions, as an 1870-CC $20 Liberty sold for $1,620,000. … Read more