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Sotheby’s set an auction record for a rare coin that would have been inconceivable even days ago, achieving $18.9 million USD for the only legal-to-own 1933 double eagle Saint-Gaudens $20 gold coin.

Why Great Coins Need More Than Rarity: The Stories That Create Numismatic Legends

The $18.9 Million Lesson: Why the Greatest Coins Need a Great Story Rarity and condition can make a coin valuable. However, history, beauty, pedigree, and...
1893-S Morgan Dollar Realizes $1,181,250 at GreatCollections

1893-S Morgan Dollar Shatters MS65 Record at $1.18 Million

The “King of Morgan Dollars” Just Sold for $1.18 Million One of the great trophy coins of the Morgan dollar series has crossed the seven-figure...
1933 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

11 Legendary 1933 Double Eagles Headline $100 Million Pittsburgh World’s Fair of Money

Eleven of America’s most notorious gold coins will come together in public for the first time this month. The United States Mint will bring all...

Six at the Summit: Superb Gem 1908 Indian Quarter Eagle Heads to Rarities Night

A 1908 Indian Quarter Eagle has reached a level that almost no coin in the entire series has achieved. Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered the 1908...
1889-CC Morgan Silver Dollar. MS-63 (PCGS). CAC. CMQ.

1889-CC Morgan Dollar: The King of Carson City Returns in CAC-Approved MS-63

Only 350,000 Were Made: This CAC 1889-CC Morgan Dollar Is a Carson City Legend Some Morgan dollars owe their fame to tiny mintages. Others owe...
Jacques-Antoine Dassier’s elegant portrait of Empress Elizabeth

The Empress Who Rejected Her Own Portrait: The Legendary 1757 Dassier Rouble

Elizabeth Hated This 1757 Rouble Portrait. Collectors Now Call It a Masterpiece For a brief moment in 1757, one of Europe’s greatest medallists transformed the...

The $1 Coin That Survived a Financial Panic and Became the King of Morgan...

Eliasberg 1893-S Morgan Dollar Returns From Overseas A famous PCGS MS65 CAC example of the “King of Morgan Dollars” traces its ownership to the coin’s...
The Unique 1873-CC Liberty Seated Dime. No Arrows. MS-65 (PCGS)

The Dime That Should Not Exist: The Unique 1873-CC No Arrows Dime

A Tiny Weight Change Created America’s Rarest Carson City Coin that Sold for $3.6 Million A microscopic change in federal law created one of the...
Mint Error (2000)-P Sacagawea Dollar Mule with Washington Quarter PCGS MS-66

The Mint’s Impossible $1.25 Coin Set a $194,000 Record

The $1.25 Coin: How the U.S. Mint Created Its Most Famous Modern Mule Error In May 2000, Arkansas collector Frank Wallis opened a roll of...
Paradime Coins - 1879 $4 Coiled Hair Stella Gilt PR63 PCGS CAC

1879 Coiled Hair Stella Gilt: The Gold Coin That Wasn’t

Paradime is offering this 1879 Gilt Stella - Looks Like Gold, but Its Real Story Is Better At first glance, the 1879 Coiled Hair Stella...
1792 P10C Disme, Judd-11, Pollock-12, R.8 MS64 Red and Brown PCGS. CAC

1792 Copper Disme: The First U.S. Coin May Have Been a Dime That Wasn’t...

Did America’s First Coin Start in a Philadelphia Cellar? The 1792 Copper Disme does not look loud. It does not need to. It sits at the...

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