One of the top sellers in the Stack's Bowers sale of the Abigail Collection in March proved to be a 1906-D Barber half dollar graded Mint State 67 that brought $36,000.

Coin cabinets represent an era of the elegance of collecting as the coins were displayed in protective drawers in fine furniture and some classic examples recently sold in North Carolina.

The 1921-S Morgan dollar is common in MS-63, with examples selling near $175, but bidders competed for this beauty in an Oct. 16, 2022, GreatCollections auction, where it sold for $5,400.

"Brown" was a misnomer for the toning on two Indian Head cents in an April 3 Heritage auction, where excited bidders drove prices to as much as four times what more typical examples might sell for.

Heritage Auctions April 3 sale focused on toned coins and included a pair of Proof Seated Liberty dimes from prestigious collections, one once part of Bob Simpson's holdings, the other traced to D.L. Hansen.

A recently offered signed Kimon silver decadrachm circa 405 B.C. from Syracuse in ancient Greece is a beautiful coin reflecting high quality workmanship of the dies and has a well-documented pedigree.

A silver stater, or nomos, issued around 520 B.C. depicting a nude Apollo in "refined Archaic form" is the very example depicted in a 1958 book and was offered in a Jan. 9 Heritage auction.

Long-documented histories hold appeal when ancient coins come up for auction, as bidders know the item, such as this circa A.D. 193 gold aureus of Pertinax, is genuine with legal past ownership.

Noel Thomas Patton assembled a collection of stunning Saint-Gaudens gold $20 eagles, which will be offered during Heritage Auctions' May 3 Platinum Night session.

The third installment of Heritage Auctions' sales of the Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection, long on display at the ANA's Money Museum, includes some early U.S. Proof gold coins and takes place May 4.