A rare “Quintuple Stella” 1879 Liberty Head gold $20 double eagle pattern, one of five examples struck in gold, brought a massive $1.88 million at Legend Rare Coin Auctions’ Regency XVII Auction in New Orleans, leading the sale.
The final coin of the massive 453-coin Overton set reached the grading room of Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS.com), capping off a collector’s search that spanned three decades. Chuck Link of Baltimore, Maryland, recently submitted a 1829 0.120, completing his Capped Bust Half Dollars Prime Die Variety set by Overton, Circulation Strikes (1807-1836) on the...
For its 25th anniversary in 2016, Women in Numismatics has hired Ray Dillard to produce sets of rolled U.S. coins featuring images of women or female personifications of Liberty. Dillard designed the elongate imprint, the WIN logo as the central, obverse device. Host coins are Sacagawea, Presidential, and Susan B. Anthony dollars, and 2016 Shawnee National Forest quarter...
Bags and rolls of 2016 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park quarter dollars struck in circulation quality at three different U.S. Mint production facilities will be offered by the bureau beginning at noon Eastern Time June 6. The third of five America the Beautiful quarter dollars to be issued in 2016, the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park quarter dollar is being...
This month Coin World columnist O'Rourke concentrated on looking through as many rolls of 5-cent coins as he could get his hands on. He worked his way through 100 rolls or what should have been 4,000 coins. Six of the rolls were minus one coin each, so he really searched through 3,994 coins. Oddly, the rolls that were actually shorted were the only ones that were...
Currently, on wholesale trading networks, examples of the 2016-W Winged Liberty Head gold dimes are selling for around $240 to $250 each, resulting in a decent per-coin profit over the $205 original issue price.
An Enhanced Uncirculated 2016-S Native American $1 coin struck at the San Francisco Mint will be the featured coin in the 2016 American $1 Coin and Currency set to go on sale by the U.S. Mint beginning at noon Eastern Time June 16. The U.S. Mint had not yet disclosed as of May 27 how many of the 2016 sets will be offered, at what price and whether there will be any...
The inaugural medals of the presidents of the United States have gained enormous popularity since 1961, when the gala swearing-in of John Fitzgerald Kennedy introduced thousands of Americans to medal collecting. Official inaugural medals issued by the inaugural committees had been around since at least 1889, but had attracted little notice from collectors focused on...
The McClure Collection, offered at the June Long Beach Expo, includes an 1895-O Morgan dollar graded NGC MS-65+ CAC, tied for the finest example of the issue at CAC, as well as a Proof 64 1895 Morgan dollar with a green CAC sticker and intense shades of green-gold, cobalt blue, and lilac toning across deeply reflective, mirrored fields.
Unfortunately, what the reader has is a common modern reproduction, cast in base metals, and not an example of a genuine 1776 Continental Currency dollar. You can frequently find examples of these replicas at flea markets and similar venues, and sometimes at historical sites where such pieces are sold as souvenirs and identified as replicas or reproductions.
