Recent Price Guide Updates MS & PR Morgan Dollars MS Draped Bust Quarter Eagles MS Capped Bust Quarter Eagles MS Classic Head Quarter Eagles MS Three Dollars MS Draped Bust Half Eagles MS Capped Bust Half Eagles MS Classic Head Half Eagles CoinFacts Narrative Update The 2023-P and D mint mark American Women Tallchief quarters […]
Stewart Blay Collections of Flying Eagle cents, Indian cents, Barber dimes realize almost $5 million
1856 & 1877 Pennies Sold for Over $300,000 Each; Countless Records Set (Irvine, California) — The Stewart Blay Collection continued to set records at GreatCollections earlier this month, with almost $5 million in final bids for the finest sets of Flying Eagle cents, Indian cents, and Barber dimes ever assembled. The coins were sold at […]
CAC coins bring premiums in November
CAC-approved coins fared well in many public sales during the month of November, and in live auctions in New Jersey, Texas, and California. Here are a dozen examples, which were selected from a large number of results that could have been listed. On November 2, Legend auctioned a CAC-approved MS-67 grade, 1913 “Type One” Buffalo […]
Bowers on Collecting: “With the ever-circling years comes round the Age of Gold.”
THE GILDED AGE The Gilded Age for the American $20 gold coin or double eagle began in 1849 when this new denomination was created, spawned by the discovery of gold on the American River in January 1848, which expanded to become a worldwide sensation. With the arrival of the Forty-Niners the next year and statehood […]
Bowers on Collecting: a good way to hold gold
The following is re-posted from the “Bowers on Collecting” column on Coin Update Time flies, and it seems like only yesterday that I, with the help of Robert J. Galiette, created what turned out to be a very popular book: Liberty Head Double Eagles 1849-1907: The Gilded Age of Coinage. That was back in 2013, […]
Easy sets for beginning hobbyists
There were four types of Proof sets through the 1990s, and two are ideal for beginning collectors, the relatively low-mintage and inexpensive green packaged non-silver and black packaged silver sets. The first thing is to be able to identify the four types of sets: The Green Packaged Proof Set (1994-98) features five coins, cent, nickel, […]
Face Value: Morgan dollars
New Morgan dollars cost a little under $100 from the U.S. Mint. Which vintage Morgans can you get for the same price? Morgan dollars were struck from 1878 to 1904 and then returned for a curtain call in 1921. Their history, large format, and cartwheel luster make the silver coins one of the most popular […]
Rare $2,100 gold coin in Lamar University football coin flip
Historic coin made in 1923 when Lamar opened in Beaumont, Texas, is donated by benefactor Michael Fuljenz of Beaumont (Beaumont, Texas) November 14, 2023 — A century-old, rare gold coin will be used for the coin flip at the Lamar University (www.lamar.edu) football game against McNeese State University (www.mcneese.edu) in Beaumont, Texas, on Saturday, November […]
Estimating value of ancient coins
In 2020, I published in Coin Update a two-part series on identifying (Part 1) and slabbing (Part 2) ancient coins. If you are interested in collecting these historical marvels, you should read those articles as the basis of your new hobby interest. You also might want to bone up on “junk” ancient coins — fragments, […]
Bowers on Collecting: let’s go back to 1883!
The following was re-posted from the “Bowers on Collecting” column on Coin Update Apart from certain Morgan silver dollars, the most available issue of federal coins available in Mint State today is the 1883 Without CENTS Liberty Head nickel. In early 1883 there were perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 people who collected coins in a systematic […]
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