Certified Acceptance Corporation is a Far Hills, New Jersey third-party coin certification company started in 2007 by coin dealer John Albanese. The firm evaluates certain numismatic U.S. coins already certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation or Professional Coin Grading Service. Coins that CAC deems high-end for their grades receive green stickers and coins that are under … Read more
Whitman Publishing’s new Guide Book of American Silver Eagles, by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, will debut this December, available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide. Here, Q. David Bowers, the namesake of Whitman’s popular “Bowers Series” of numismatic reference books (of which McMorrow-Hernandez’s work is no. 27), reviews the new volume and shares some thoughts on American … Read more
Total from 3 Heritage coin and currency auctions held during Long Beach Expo top $49 million An 1875 Liberty Eagle, AU53 drew a record winning bid of $1.02 million to lead Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature® Auction to $17,875,326 Oct. 6-9. The event was part of an extraordinary week of Heritage Long Beach … Read more
The eighth edition of Mega Red (the 1,504-page expanded Deluxe Edition of the Guide Book of United States Coins) devotes nearly 300 pages to a detailed study of U.S. two-cent pieces, copper-nickel three-cent pieces, silver trimes, half dimes, twenty-cent pieces, and $1, $3, and $4 gold coins. One of the book’s 13 appendices covers two … Read more
Triple-signed note, leading Oct. 5-7 event, is one of just two known examples A magnificent hand-signed, triple signature 1882 $100 gold certificate, one of just two known examples, will become a centerpiece of a new collection when it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach Expo US Currency Signature® Auction – Long Beach Oct. 5-7. … Read more
1870-CC Double Eagle leads highly coveted Carson City gold at Oct. 6-9 auction When an auction has as many elite offerings as Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach Expo US Coins Signature® Auction does – and make no mistake: this spectacular event offers a bounty of more than 1,500 elite coins and patterns – the choices might … Read more