Over $43 Million in US Coins Sold in Stack’s Bowers 2022 Summer Showcase Auction

Over $43 Million in US Coins Sold in Stack’s Bowers 2022 Summer Showcase Auction

Entire Auction Brings More Than $60 Million Across All Categories   Over $60 million in numismatic items were sold in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries 2022 Summer...
Rare Proof 1864 Double Eagle Sells for $613,125 at GreatColletions

Rare Proof 1864 Double Eagle Sells for $613,125 at GreatColletions

On September 25, 2022, GreatCollections offered collectors a rare opportunity to bid on a spectacular early US Civil War Ultra Cameo Proof 1864 gold...

Unusual Items: A Bizarre Territorial Gold Coin Overstrike

The Heritage Auctions 2010 April-May CSNS US Coin Auction #1139 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin featured a bizarre example of territorial coin production: a Clark Gruber Twenty Dollar...
The Three Levels of Coin Rarity: The Appearance, Eye Appeal, and Registry

The Three Levels of Coin Rarity: The Appearance, Eye Appeal, and Registry

By Doug Winter - RareGoldcoins.com ......   CoinWeek Content Partner ......   If you’ve been around the coin market for a while, you know that there are many...
United States 1932 $10 Indian Head Gold Coins

United States 1932 $10 Indian Head Gold Coins

By Bullion Shark LLC ......   After President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned famed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1905 to put his artistic skills at work redesigning...
United States 1925 Saint-Gaudens $20 Double Eagle Gold Coin

United States 1925 Saint-Gaudens $20 Double Eagle Gold Coin

By 1925, gold coins had mostly fallen from circulation within the United States. Instead, the Government intended these coins to fulfill two main roles:...
Celebrated Harry W. Bass Jr. Collection Makes Debut at Heritage Auctions

Celebrated Harry W. Bass Jr. Collection Makes Debut at Heritage Auctions

The first of several sales benefitting Dallas nonprofits kicks off with ‘one of the most spectacular gold rarities in the entire American series’   After more...
Mike Byers Mint Error News - Unique Broadstruck 1906-D $20 Liberty

Mike Byers Mint Error News – Unique Broadstruck 1906-D $20 Liberty

By Mike Byers for Mint Error News ......   1906-D $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle Broadstruck (Out of the Collar) NGC AU 58 UNIQUE   This is the only known United...
35th Anniversary American Eagle Coins Sell for Over $4.6 Million

35th Anniversary American Eagle Coins Sell for Over $4.6 Million

The special 2021 35th Anniversary American Eagle 1 Ounce Gold and Silver Coins realized over $4.6 million USD in total sales at the Stack’s...
Monumental Proof 1885 Double Eagle Featured in Stack's Bowers Winter Expo Auction

Monumental Proof 1885 Double Eagle Featured in Stack’s Bowers Winter Expo Auction

By Christopher Maisano - Numismatist, Stack's Bower Galleries ......   The 1885 Proof double eagle is among the rarest Proof $20s, and we are pleased to...

Coin Collecting Strategies – Sleeping Giants and Emergent Coins

1822 half eagle $5 gold piece By Bruce Smith - Sr. Portfolio Director and Numismatic Writer, Blanchard and Company ......   The year was 1822. On its...
First Type 2, Last Type 1 American Eagles Set Records at Stack's Bowers Auction

First Type 2, Last Type 1 American Eagles Set Records at Stack’s Bowers Auction

By CoinWeek ..... When the dust settled, four records had fallen. On September 1, 2022, Stack's Bowers Galleries held an unusual auction comprised of 700 lots,...
My 12 Favorite Gold Coins in the Bender Part I Heritage Auction

My 12 Favorite Gold Coins in the Bender Part I Heritage Auction

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ......   CoinWeek Content Partner   Tom Bender is a good client of mine as well as a friend, and it was with...
Rare Proof 66 1913 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle at GreatCollections

Rare Proof 66 1913 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle at GreatCollections

Biding is now live at GreatCollections.com for the opportunity to acquire a stunning Proof 1913 Saint-Gaudens $20 gold double eagle. Certified and graded as...
Proof 1825/4/1 Half Eagle Sells for Record $4.08 Million at Stack’s Bowers

Proof 1825/4/1 Half Eagle Sells for Record $4.08 Million at Stack’s Bowers

The finest of three known Proof 1825/4/1 Capped Head Left half eagles sold for a record price of $4.08 million USD in the Stack’s...
1927-D Double Eagle Sells for Record $4.44 Million at Heritage US Coins Auction

1927-D Double Eagle Sells for Record $4.44 Million at Heritage US Coins Auction

Previous record was $2.16 million, also at Heritage   An exceedingly rare 1927-D Double Eagle MS66 PCGS, part of The Bob R. Simpson Collection, Part IX,...
PCGS Certifies 2021 American Eagle at Dusk and at Dawn 35th Anniversary Bullion Coins

PCGS Certifies 2021 American Eagle at Dusk and at Dawn 35th Anniversary Bullion Coins

Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is collaborating with Stack’s Bowers Galleries to encapsulate a select number of 2021 American Eagle silver and gold coins...
Stack's Bowers Offers Dusk and Dawn Eagles Certified by NGC

Stack’s Bowers Offers Dusk and Dawn Eagles Certified by NGC

Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) is proud to have certified 1,000 American Gold Eagles and American Silver Eagles from a historic transition in the coins'...

The Wreck of Brother Jonathan Still Keeps Its Secrets

By Blanchard and Company, Inc ......   On a Sunday morning in 1865, a paddle steamer called Brother Jonathan departed Crescent City Harbor, California. The ship...

A Neat Knick-Knack – Counterfeit 1842 Dahlonega Gold Half Eagle

Counterfeit Dahlonega Gold by Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ......   CoinWeek Content Partner   As you become a more passionate collector, “oddball” items become more appealing. I refer...
PCGS Certifies Coins From Legendary Harry W. Bass Collection

PCGS Certifies Coins From Legendary Harry W. Bass Collection

Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is partnering with Heritage Auctions to certify one of the most famous coin collections assembled in the last 50...
Lovely Dahlonega Gold Dollar in Stack's Bowers Showcase Auction

Lovely Dahlonega Gold Dollar in Stack’s Bowers Showcase Auction

By Christopher Maisano - Numismatist, Stack's Bower Galleries ......   The 1851-D gold dollar is a conditionally rare and historic issue that attracts heavy interest from...
Tom Bender’s Collection, Featuring Elite Troves of Carson City Coins, Indian and Lincoln Cents, Offered at Heritage Auctions August 22-28

Tom Bender’s Collection, Featuring Elite Troves of Carson City Coins, Indian and Lincoln Cents,...

“Duke of Carson City Coins” among most important in all of U.S. numismatics   A passion can be sparked by any number of factors. In the...
Mint State 1852 Humbert $10 Gold Coin Featured in Stack's Bowers August 2022 Showcase Auction

Mint State 1852 Humbert $10 Gold Coin Featured in Stack’s Bowers August 2022 Showcase...

By Christopher Maisano - Numismatist, Stack's Bower Galleries ......   Stack's Bowers Galleries is pleased to present a noteworthy conditionally rare example of the historic 1852...
2021 American Eagle at Dusk and at Dawn 35th Anniversary Gold and Silver One-Ounce Coins to be Sold at Auction September 1

2021 American Eagle at Dusk and at Dawn 35th Anniversary Gold and Silver One-Ounce...

The United States Mint is pleased to announce the public auction on September 1 of special limited editions of 2021 American Eagle at Dusk...
United States 1904 Liberty Head $20 Double Eagle

United States 1904 Liberty Head $20 Double Eagle

By 1904, the United States' large format gold double eagle had begun to fall in popularity and had practically ceased to circulate. As a...
United States 1922 Grant Centennial Commemorative Gold Dollar

United States 1922 Grant Centennial Commemorative Gold Dollar

If one commemorative coin is good, then two coins are twice as good--or so the reasoning goes with these often exploited issues. The Grant...
'Legendary' 1927-D Double Eagle Offered at Heritage Auction

‘Legendary’ 1927-D Double Eagle Offered at Heritage Auction

August 22-28 event also features collections of James R. McGuigan, Christopher J. Salmon and Tom Bender   In their classic reference Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins...
Let's Talk About $20 Gold Coins: Grading, Population, and the Market

Let’s Talk About $20 Gold Coins: Grading, Population, and the Market

  In this episode of the CoinWeek Live Stream on YouTube, noted coin expert Russ Augustin (AU Capital Management/RARCOA) joins Charles Morgan to discuss common...
GreatCollections Offering One of Finest Known Proof 1912 Indian Head Quarter Eagles

GreatCollections Offering One of Finest Known Proof 1912 Indian Head Quarter Eagles

Currently listed for auction at GreatCollections is one of the finest Proof 1912 $2.50 quarter eagle gold coins available. Collectors should be aware of...