The 1826 Erie Canal completion medal is considered the first "so-called dollar," and an example was sold in the March 25 Stack's Bowers auction for $12,000.

While the 1886-O Morgan dollar was produced in large numbers at the New Orleans Mint, few survive today in the highest states of preservation, adding intrigue and value to those that do.

Two examples of extremely well-struck and well-preserved Carson City Mint Morgan dollars realized identical final prices, $228,000 each, during the sale of the David T. Miller Collection by Heritage Auctions.

Heritage's January Platinum Night offered 131 coins, leading with a PCGS MS-63 1893-S Morgan dollar and including an1881-S dollar from the David T. Miller Collection of DMPL Morgan dollars.

GreatCollections recently sold a 1907 Indian Head, Rolled Edge gold $10 eagle for $589,500, a slight improvement on the auction price the same coin sold for only two years ago.

The Stack's Bowers March 26 Rarities Night auction will include a plaster for a version of the Walking Liberty half dollar's obverse and a bronze galvano produced on the way to creating the "Buffalo nickel."

Recent sales offered a couple of NGC AU Details Lincoln cents struck in 1944 on the zinc planchets of 1943 that proved popular with collectors, with a Denver Mint example realizing $21,600.

Heritage's sale of a high-grade wartime doubled die obverse Lincoln cent, a variety recently discovered to also be an overdate error, reinforced the message to diligently check old coins for new varieties.

Key coins to be offered in a late March U.S. Coins Signature Auction by Heritage include gold coins with low mintages and low survival rates that are sure to be attractive to bidders.

A zinc-coated steeel 1943-D/D Lincoln cent showing wide separation of its overstuck Mint mark and graded MS-67 by PCGS, with a concurring green CAC sticker, brought $12,000 in a Heritage sale.