Heritage Auctions – Seldom Seen Selections: Premium Gem 1878-S Trade Dollar
The 1878-S Trade dollar is known as a common date, even in Mint State grades, but this is a relative term as far as...
Heritage Auctions – Seldom Seen Selections: 1884 Double Eagle
The second in sequence and the lowest-mintage of three proof-only double eagle issues from the decade of the 1880s, the 1884 saw a proof...
US Coin Pattern – 1913 Buffalo Nickel
Mint documents indicate that Philadelphia Mint Superintendent John Landis informed Mint Director George Roberts on March 3, 1913, that 17 pattern Buffalo nickels had...
Heritage Coin Auction Results – 1793 Wreath Cent Brings $399,500
1793 1C Wreath Cent, Vine and Bars, S-6
Heritage’s Aug. 12-16 ANA Auctions in Chicago tops $46+ million with U.S. Coins portion alone almost $35...
Rare Coins Spanning 2,500 Years Anchor ANA Heritage World & Ancient Coins Auction
Aug. 12-17, 2015; held in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association convention in Chicago
More than 2,500 years of human history, as told by some...
$100 1890 Watermelon Note May Bring $150,000+ at Heritage Auctions’ CSNS Currency Event
Iconic notes set to make auction debut April 22-25 in Chicago
DALLAS – Marking its auction debut, a $100 1890 Watermelon Note from...
Coin Shows – US Mint to Sell New Marshals Service Coin at Long Beach...
Visitors on opening day of the January 29 - 31, 2015 Long Beach Coin, Currency, Stamp & Sports Collectible Expo (www.LongBeachExpo.com) will have the...
Coin Profile – 1843 Proof Quarter Eagle, Only Five Known
The 1843 Proof Quarter Eagle
Before the Mint began its program of commercial proof set offerings in 1858, only a handful of proofs were struck...
World Gold Coins: Unique South African 1897 Sixpence to be Offered in NY by...
The upcoming January 4 - 5 NYINC World Coins & Ancient Coins Signature Auction in New York City features a monumental offering from South...
1794 Silver Dollar Tops Fifth Newman Coin Collection Sale
Eric P. Newman's outstanding 1794 silver dollar AU50 NGC. Ex: "Col" E.H.R. Green was the undisputed star of the outstanding offerings in the $10.4+...
Collectors Eye Rare Gold Coins From Carson City in Heritage PNG Auction
An official auction of the PNG New York City Show, offered October 8-13, at the Millennium Broadway Hotel
Two rarities from the fabled Carson City...
Outstanding World and Ancient Coins highlight Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach events
Rare 1681 Elephant & Castle halfcrown among nearly 6,000+ World Coin lots Sept. 3-5 & 9-10
The finest certified 1681 Elephant & Castle halfcrown...
1877 Half Union Pattern in Gilt Copper
The 1877 fifty dollar patterns, named half unions, were struck in both Large and Small Head varieties, both types using a common reverse. One...
Eric P. Newman Collection Part III Featuring World Coins Surpasses $6 million at Heritage...
Rare 17th-century coinage offered January 14-16 in New York
A 14 ducat of Salzburg, minted in 1612 and so rare that it hasn’t been...
The Fabulous Eric Newman Collection, Part 9: European Coins
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community, #205
A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg...
High-Grade 1893-S Morgan Dollar Leads Heritage Auctions $11.3+ Million New York U.S. Coin Event
Top lots include high-grade silver coinage and gold rarities as a 1943-S Bronze cent brings $141,000
An 1893-S Morgan Dollar MS64 NGC, from the...
Numismatic World Riveted by Eric P. Newman Coin Collection Part II, Nov. 15-16 in...
Heritage Auctions has designated the week of Nov. 11-16, 2013, as "Newman Week in New York City" to honor the legacy of esteemed numismatic...
The Geyer Collection of World War II-Era Mint Error Coins
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #190
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds...
Francis Crick Nobel Prize Medal for Discovering DNA Brings $2.27 Million
The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, along with Drs. James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh...
Greatest Collection of Judaean Coins Ever Offered
Heritage recently announced their offering of The Shoshana Collection of Ancient Judean Coins. Assembled over the course of four decades by a diligent collector...
Prototype Silver Shekel Highlights Shoshana Collection Offerings
The first silver shekel struck in Jerusalem by Jewish forces rebelling against Roman oppression in the first century CE, one of only two...
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: 1793 Cent Sets $1.38 Million Auction Record for Copper...
News & Analysis on scarce coins, markets, and the coin collecting community #89
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds for CoinWeek
In the Heritage auction at...
Heritage-Gemini Ancient Coin Auction Nets $3.4 Million
Silver tetradrachm of Naxos in Sicily brings $174,800 to lead the way
A spectacular silver tetradrachm of Naxos in Sicily, struck circa 415 BC, brought...
Steve Roach: The Strong Market for Classic Proof U.S. Coins
By Steve Roach for Steve Roach Online .....
First published in the May 30, 2011, issue of Coin World
The Heritage Platinum Night auction on...
Ancient Coins Star in $3.3M CICF Heritage-Gemini Auction
Outstanding ancient coins brought strong prices in the just-concluded 2011 April Heritage-Gemini Signature Ancient Coins Auction, which took place at the Chicago International Coin...
Coin Profile: 1808 Quarter Eagle a Rare One-Year Type Coin
Johann Matthias (John) Reich was a Bavarian native who learned the engraving trade from his father, Johann Christian Reich. According to L. Forrer in...
Important Greek Silver, Roman Gold Features in 1st Joint Heritage Auctions-Gemini Sale
More than 540 ancient coins ready for auction, April 14, at CICF, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel and Convention Center in Rosemont,...
Pattern Coins: 1852 PG$1 Gold Dollar, Judd-145
1852 Ring Dollar in Gold, Judd-145, Thin Planchet PR68 Cameo, Finest Certified
The United States Mint experimented with pattern gold dollars in 1852, producing those...
$8.2 Million in Rare World Coins Sell in New York Heritage Auction
Rare gold led the way as Heritage's recent World & Ancient Coins Auction realized over $8.2 million January 2-3 in New York. Over 93%...
Historic Proof Sets, Stella Pattern Coins Momentous Opportunities at FUN
Remarkable set of six pattern coins associated with the famous “Stella” coinage experiment are important collective highlights of Heritage’s Tampa FUN Auction