Together, the New Orleans Mint rarities realized more than $500,000. Vintage U.S. coins certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) did exceptionally well at Stack’s Bowers Galleries Baltimore Rarities Night. The top lots were two $20 coins from New Orleans: An 1856-O Liberty Head double eagle and an 1854-O Liberty Head double eagle, which together realized […]
Bowers on collecting: Excitement!
All bets were off, the room was up for grabs, and the sky was the limit at the Whitman Coin Expo in Baltimore last week. Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the official auctioneer, issued not one but seven catalogs and sold nearly 10,000 lots! Price records rose left and right, especially for colonial and early American coins. […]
“In God We Trust” — Giving numismatic thanks
(Pelham, Alabama) — In November 2019 Whitman Publishing will release In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking, and Religion. The 352-page hardcover volume will be available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide, and online. Here, author William Bierly gives thanks to the many people and institutions that helped him in his research. […]
CAC coins bring premiums in October 2019
In addition to realizing newsworthy premiums in public auctions in Dallas and New Orleans, CAC-approved coins outperformed other certified coins in various public Internet sales during the month of October. Here are 10 examples that were selected from a large number of results that could have been listed. On October 6, GreatCollections sold a CAC-approved […]
PCGS banknote accepting paper money submissions January 2020
November 19, 2019 — Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) will again be authenticating, grading, and certifying United States and world paper money domestically with the launch of a new service, PCGS Banknote, in early January 2020. The company has successfully provided PCGS Gold Shield brand grading of U.S. and world paper money at its international Asia and Europe offices for […]
John W. Adams Collection of Comitia Americana Medals makes history
The Stack’s Bowers Galleries Offering of 110 Historic American Medals Nets $1.7 Million Baltimore, MD — Numismatist John W. Adams is known worldwide as the foremost expert on the medals authorized by the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. His decades of collecting and research culminated in the most extraordinary cabinet of Comitia Americana medals […]
Legend Rare Coin Auctions’ 35th Regency Auction presents an exciting offering of over 600 hand-selected lots
Final auction of 2019 finishes the year with an awesome array of rarities. (Lincroft, NJ — November 8, 2019) Legend Rare Coin Auctions has done it again! Capping off a very successful 2019 is Regency Auction 35, being held at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on December 12. The auction, the official auction event for […]
The Ultimate Collection of Rattlers and Old Holders: GreatCollections to auction important time capsule of certified coins
(November 12, 2019) Irvine, California — GreatCollections is pleased to announce the Ultimate Collection of Rattlers and Old Holders. The collection comprises nearly 100 certified coins that were graded in the early years of PCGS and NGC and have resided with one owner ever since. The collection of important early U.S. coins includes a 1796 Draped […]
Bowers on collecting: To certify or not to certify, that is the question
I have been part of a recent discussion as to whether early American medals should be certified by PCGS or NGC when they are offered at auction. This is a conundrum. I like to have my tokens and medals raw so I can touch them, but at auction, certification does bring in additional bidders who […]
Why I wrote In God We Trust
(Pelham, Alabama) — In November 2019 Whitman Publishing will release In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking, and Religion. The 352-page hardcover volume will be available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide, and online. Here, author William Bierly discusses his motivation in writing the book. My book In God We Trust is […]
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