• Hoard find on the ground
    Oct 11, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Noonans offers Lenham stater hoard from 2022 find

    by Jeff Starck
    A metal detectorists find in 2022 made its way to the auction block at Noonans as 35 gold coins plus fragments of a container in which they were found sold for over $152,000.

  • 1879 Flowing Hair Stella
    Oct 7, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Market Analysis: Lightly circulated 1879 gold Stella

    by Steve Roach
    An 1879 Flowing Hair gold $4 Stella from the Duffy Family Collection sold Sept. 12 in a Heritage Premier Session auction to a new owner for a price of $120,000.

  • 1907 Rolled Rim gold eagle
    Oct 6, 2024, 08:00 AM

    Market Analysis: Mr. Duffy’s gold type coins

    by Steve Roach
    A 1907 Indian Head, Rolled Rim gold $10 eagle graded PCGS AU-55 and carrying a green Certified Acceptance Corp. sticker sold for $186,000 in a September auction of the Duffy Family Collection.

  • David I coin from Noonans
    Oct 4, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Noonans auction has unique early Scottish silver coin

    by Jeff Starck
    A unique and unpublished silver coin from the reign of David I of Scotland (1124 to 1153) that was minted in Carlisle realized £39,680 at a Noonans Mayfair Sept. 19 sale.

  • 1796 and 1808 quarter eagles
    Oct 3, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Market Analysis: One year only quarter eagles

    by Steve Roach
    A pair of different quarter eagles in designs issued only one year apiece were included in the auction of the Duffy Family Collection offered in a Premier Session by Heritage Auctions.

  • Revolutionary medals
    Sep 30, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Market Analysis: Scarce gold medals near melt

    by Steve Roach
    A couple of examples of scarce and rare gold medals that could be purchased for very fair prices were found in the Stack's Bowers Part VI sale of the Sydney F. Martin collection.

  • Copy of 1776-dated Continental dollar
    Sep 28, 2024, 08:00 AM

    Market Analysis: Copy of 1776 Continental dollar

    by Steve Roach
    The Part VI sale of the Sydney F. Martin Collection by Stack's Bowers brought an opportunity for collectors to acquire a unique copy of a 1776-dated Continental dollar on an 1876 double eagle.

  • Carson City gold double eagles
    Sep 27, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Fairmont Collection sale continues at Stack's Bowers

    by Steve Roach
    The Sussex Set of the Fairmont Collection sold by Stack's Bowers in August offered great gold coins that included Carson City Mint examples and Civil War era coins of distinction.

  • 1759 Quebec Taken medal
    Sep 26, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Market Analysis: Quebec Taken medal

    by Steve Roach
    A 1759 gold Quebec Taken medal from the Sydney F. Martin Collection brought $45,600 during the Part VI sale offered by Stack's Bowers Galleries.

  • 1888-O Scarface Morgan dollar
    Sep 22, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Puccini Complete Collection of Toned Morgan Dollars vivid

    by Steve Roach
    A collector took on the challenge of assembling a complete collection of Morgan dollars all brightly toned, and the coins were offered in the Heritage Auctions Long Beach Expo sale to great acclaim.

  • New Orleans Mint dimes from the 1890s
    Sep 21, 2024, 17:00 PM

    A trio of attractive 1890s New Orleans Mint Barber dimes

    by Steve Roach
    Three high grade Barber dimes from relatively low mintages at the New Orleans Mint were featured attractions at a mid-August Stack's Bowers Galleries Rarities Night auction.

  • 1870 and 1872 Carson City Seated Liberty half dollars
    Sep 19, 2024, 08:00 AM

    Market Analysis: Two Carson City Seated half dollars

    by Steve Roach
    Two interesting Mint State Seated Liberty half dollars minted in Carson City were key attractions during the Stack's Bowers Galleries August 13 sale.

  • 1842 Seated Liberty half dollar
    Sep 18, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Market Analysis: Proof 1842 Seated Liberty half dollar

    by Steve Roach
    One of just seven confirmed Proof 1842 half dollars (Reverse of 1842) type, graded Proof 64 by Professional Coin Grading Service, realized $38,400 in a Stack's Bowers offering.

  • 1861-O Seated Liberty half dollar
    Sep 17, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Market Analysis: 1861-O Seated Liberty half dollar

    by Steve Roach
    One of few known Specimen strikings of the Civil War era 1861-O Seated Liberty half dollar was recently offered in a Stack's Bowers sale, brining $52,800.

  • Silver denarius from Gallienus of Rome
    Sep 10, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Ancient silver denarius stars in CNG auction 127

    by Jeff Starck
    The initial setting of the myth of Rome's foundation is depicted on a silver denarius of Gallienus from the third century, and one of the coin's two known examples is in a CNG auction in September.

  • Helmingham hoard from England
    Sep 10, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Hoard coming to Noonans September auction

    by Jeff Starck
    A metal detectorist's 2019 find of a large hoard of buried silver and gold coins ranging from circa 200 B.C. to about A.D. 47 will be on Noonans' auction block in London Sept. 18.

  • 1909 VDB Lincoln cent
    Sep 10, 2024, 08:00 AM

    Louisiana Lagniappe Collection of Proof ‘Wheat cents’

    by Steve Roach
    The Louisiana Lagniappe Collection of Proof Lincoln, Wheat reverse cents in Heritage's August auction was chock full of high-grade examples of differing styles of Proof surfaces.

  • 1922 Grant and 1928 Hawaii commemoratives
    Sep 9, 2024, 17:00 PM

    Market Analysis: Classic, undisturbed commemoratives

    by Steve Roach
    Classic commemoratives like a 1928 Hawaii Discovery Sesquicentennial half dollar and a 1922 Grant Memorial, With Star half dollar were part of the collection begun by Thomas Collier Platt and sold by Stack's Bowers.

  • French Equatorial Africa 500 francs
    Sep 9, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Stack's Bowers offers note from Virginia Judge collection

    by Larry Jewett
    The first offerings of the paper money collection of a Virginia judge included unusual serial numbers on U.S. notes and a vast variety of world notes that Stack's Bowers brought to the block.

  • Proof 1895 Morgan dollar
    Sep 8, 2024, 12:00 PM

    Market Analysis: 1895 Proof Morgan dollar

    by Steve Roach
    The top-priced coin in the Senator Platt Family Collection, begun by Thomas Collier Platt before 1870 and offered by Stack's Bowers Galleries, was a Proof 64 1895 Morgan dollar that realized $72,000.

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