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Heritage Auction Galleries

Gold double eagle coin leads Heritage sale

April 16, 2010

Coin and paper money auctions will be called by Heritage Auction Galleries April 28-30 at the Central States Numismatic Society convention in Milwaukee, Wis.
Topping the list of coin rarities in the sale is a 1921 $20 gold piece that is graded MS-63 by the Professional Coin Grading Service.
The Saint-Gaudens $20 is pedigreed to the famous [...]

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If you’re a nut for Bust Halves, has Heritage got something for you

April 13, 2010

Coin collecting humor isn’t likely to tear up the comedy club circuit anytime soon. Most of it consists of terrible puns, though there have been a handful of exceptions. (The best coin humor I’ve ever read is “Pearlman’s People,” written by public relations maestro Donn Pearlman, which used to grace the back page of The [...]

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Coin Treasures from the S.S. Central America

April 6, 2010

There are certain stories that will be told and retold for as long as there are collectors of U.S. coinage. The sinking of the S.S. Central America, with its lost gold and lost lives, has enough financial and personal tragedy to endure for centuries. Yet for decades …
Full Article: Personal Treasures from the S.S. Central [...]

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Little Coins Get a Little Bit Bigger

March 11, 2010

By size (though not value), the dime is the smallest coin used regularly in the United States, with a diameter of just under 18 millimeters. In the past, particularly during the 19th century, this wasn’t always the case. The half dime (same face value as today’s nickel, but made out of silver) was just 15.5 [...]

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The Norweb-Bass MS66 1911-D Quarter Eagle

March 11, 2010

The Norweb Collection was a legend while still owned by its namesake family, and while two decades have passed since the three auctions that dispersed most of it, time has only added to its importance to collectors.
Quality and rarity are the chief watchwords; no discussion of early copper, colonials, proof silver, or early and Southern-Western [...]

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Coin Monday: Fifty Large, Heritage Auction Galleries’ style

February 25, 2010

The last heavy stages of cataloging for Heritage’s Official ANA Auction next month are underway. Cataloging life is never more stressful than in “the crunch,” but at the same time, it doesn’t get any more interesting. It’s impossible to predict what will come next!
For me, this past Friday was the most interesting …
Full Article: Fifty [...]

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Error Cent Brings $207,000 at Heritage Auction

February 11, 2010

A 1943-S Cent Struck on a Bronze Planchet, VF35 PCGS, an amazing 20th Century Branch Mint error rarity, proved itself once again as one of the most sought after error coins in U.S. numismatics when it soared to an impressive $207,500 tally as part of Heritage Auctions Feb. 4-7 Long Beach, CA Signature® U.S. Coin [...]

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Coin Monday: The 1904 Double Eagle, Playing to Type

February 9, 2010

One of the broad styles or modes of collecting coins, type collecting consists of acquiring and owning a series of coins, each representative of a subset, or “type” of coin. A type set of double eagles, for example, would include coins exemplifying its various designs over the years, both long-lived (such as the “Type Three” [...]

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Coin Monday: ‘Well, now, I wouldn’t say that!’

January 26, 2010

I had something of a “throwback moment” recently, reading through a copy of the “Greysheet” for the first time since — was it my internship here in the summer of 2004, or all the way back in 2002, when I was still in high school?
The Greysheet, more formally known as the COIN DEALER newsletter [sic], [...]

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The best and the rest – Coin Values

January 19, 2010

In fields such as fine art and jewelry, market commentators have pointed out the growing divide between the best and the rest. Heritage Auction Galleries’ Platinum Night U.S. coin auction at the January Florida United Numismatists shows that more than ever, well-heeled collectors are all gravitating toward a handful of landmark rarities.
The performance of top [...]

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Heritage’s $11M+ NYINC Coin Auction, Canadian Cent Brings $402K+

January 17, 2010

The Canadiana Collection dominates auction action at The Waldorf Astoria, Jan. 3-4, 2010.
NEW YORK — Heritage Auctions’ World Coins division kicked off 2010 with a bang over the New Year’s weekend at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, setting an in-house record total with its $11 million+ Signature® World Coin Auction, Jan. 3-4, with the most [...]

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Ralph P. Muller $20 Saint Coin Collection Highlights F.U.N. Offerings

January 5, 2010

As happens every year, Heritage’s official auction of the F.U.N. convention attracts the finest consignments of great coins. Nothing exemplifies this more than The Ralph P. Muller Collection of Twenty Dollar Saints, an incredible 59 pieces from the Saint-Gaudens series of double eagles, valued in the many millions of dollars. Every circulation strike example in [...]

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Unusual Items: 1874 Dana Bickford Ten Dollar Gold Coin

January 4, 2010

Heritage Auctions will be selling one of the two known Bickford $10 Gold Patterns at it FUN Sale this week. Below is the Catelog description of the coin and some history surrounding it.
The Bickford pattern ten dollar gold piece, known to pattern collectors as Judd-1373, is one of the most celebrated issues in the U.S. [...]

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Unique Item: Republic 50 Francos Gold Coin from Ecuador

December 30, 2009

Heritage World Coin Auctions will be offering perhaps the most interesting and desired South American coin, the unique 50 Francos gold piece, which was unknown for almost a century until it was discovered by Robert Friedberg in the 1950’s.
It is likely that Friedberg discovered this piece amongst the Virgil Brand collection he acquired around this [...]

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Unusual Items: Remarkable Double Denomination Mule 1993-D Cent with Dime Reverse

December 27, 2009

U.S. coins struck with dies of different denominations are extremely rare. Until recent years, none were known.
The most famous among those are the Sacagawea dollar reverse, paired with a statehood quarter obverse, of which ten examples are known, per Fred Weinberg. In Heritage’s April 2006 Central States Signature, a 1999 cent with a dime reverse [...]

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