The Stack’s Bowers Galleries December Showcase Auction marked a magnificent conclusion to the firm’s 2020 auction season. The firm has now auctioned 8 of the top 10 highest priced United States coins sold in 2020, including three lots that exceeded $1 million in December. Hosted at the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach, California, the … Read more
The 23 Coins Include Rare 1894-S Barber Dime That Sold For $1.44 Million And Crossed Over to PCGS With 2020 officially behind us, Professional Coin Grading Service is once again on top when it comes to grading almost all the top 25 most valuable most coins sold at public auction during the past year. Having … Read more
Over $419 million of historic U.S. rare coins and paper money sold at major public auctions in 2020 It was the year of pandemic-related cancelled coin shows, but 2020 still resulted in one of the strongest U.S. rare coin and paper money markets in recent years, according to a year-end survey of major auction houses … Read more
FUN U.S. Coins Auction features remainder of Donald G. Partrick Collection and Bob R. Simpson Collection Part III Jan. 20-24 “The World’s Most Famous Coin” and a selection of seven-figure rarities could make numismatic history in Heritage Auctions’ Jan. 20-24 U.S. Coins Auctions held in Dallas and on HA.com. “We expect nothing short of a … Read more
Promptly acting on a tip from a concerned collector, the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation’s Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (ACTF) has notified law enforcement agencies and online shopping platform Amazon.com about a seller who is in apparent violation of federal laws involving reproductions of rare coins. The seller using the name SeTing offered nine reproductions of coins and … Read more
Famed ‘Del Monte Note’ offered at auction Jan. 22 by Heritage Auctions When is a banana sticker worth $25,000? When it’s stuck to the front of a $20 bill. Heritage Auctions will offer the famed “Del Monte Note” – what is considered perhaps the most famous of all U.S. obstructed error banknotes – at auction … Read more