Category Archives: Coin Auction

Heritage Auctions Relocates World Headquarters

Heritage Auctions has moved its global headquarters into a new state-of-the-art, 160,000-square-foot facility and multi-purpose campus.
As of June 1, Heritage’s global headquarters is now located at 2801 W. Airport Freeway, Dallas, Texas 75261, which is adjacent to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and in its foreign trade zone

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Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape

By Tom Michael
Sometime in April I received a mistaken call from an old colleague at Educational Coin Company. She had dialed my number by accident and left no message, but when I called back to check what was up, we ended up having a nice conversation. I was pleased to learn that the company’s wholesale business was doing well and that the staff was all in good health

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Auction Fever on the Rise

By Richard Giedroyc
The same question of the extent of market participation and who is participating in the market that is being asked of stock market investors should be asked of those individuals fancying themselves as coin investors rather than serious collectors. Anything that can be considered scarce to rare or has been certified to be of unusually high grade has a higher probability of being offered in an auction rather than over-the-counter in the current market.
Auction fever is increasing, with spirited bidding and strong prices being realized

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Castle Collection of Indian Head Cents Could Bring Seven Figures

DALLAS, Texas (June 5, 2019) — Heritage Auctions is honored to announce it has been chosen to present The Castle Collection of Indian Cents — the world’s finest examples obtainable of this widely collected 19th century set — at the ANA’s World’s Fair of Money in August. The Castle Collection is estimated to bring seven figures when it makes its auction debut, based on its completeness and rare issues in extraordinary condition.
“In all the years I’ve seen complete sets, none compare to the standout pieces in The Castle Collection,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions

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Over $5.6 Million in U.S. Coins Sold in Baltimore

Santa Ana, CA –  Collectors from across the country descended on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in the days leading up to Memorial Day, where Stack’s Bowers Galleries presented two days of exciting auction sessions in their May 2019 Official Auction of the Whitman Coins & Collectibles Summer Expo. Highlighted by the Drummer, Fairmont and Newmark Collections, over $5.6 million in United States coins and Numismatic Americana were sold, kicking off an exciting summer season of auction events for the firm

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Stack’s Bowers Baltimore Sale: Lots You Need to Know: Modern Coins

by Charles Morgan for CoinWeek…. Stack’s Bowers’ Baltimore sales offer a wide range of numismatic items for collectors looking to add important new specimens to their collections. Continuing a series of historic paper money offerings, Stack’s Bowers will headline their impressive 13-session marathon sale with the third offering of the Joel Anderson Collection of Paper Money. […]

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On the Block: The Finest Collection of Capped Bust Half Dollars Ever Assembled

CoinWeek Staff Reports…. It takes a total of 73 coins to complete the PCGS Set Registry set of Capped Bust half dollars, Major Variety Set without Reeded Edges, Circulation Strikes (1807-1836), and to date only three collections have risen to the task and completed the set, and only one of them, the Konstantine’s Capped Half […]

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European Coin Auction: Numismatic Lanz Auction 164

Numismatik Lanz has been in business for 70 years and published recently auction catalogue 164 featuring coins and medals from antiquity, the Holy Roman Empire, the Vatican, and a collection of pilgrim badges. To mark the milestone birthday, Lanz organizes a competition.  For 70 years, Numismatik Lanz has been a synonym for coin purchase free […]

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Whitman Baltimore Underway with Stacks Bowers Coin Auction

1945 Mercury Dime NGC MS 66 by Jim Bisognani – NGC Contributor …….. Stack’s Bowers March coin auction extravaganza; Partially split bands deserve a premium; Coins and taxidermy: Just what the doctor ordered The end of March is not going out like a lamb in the numismatic world as there is a sustained flurry of […]

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Coin Provenance – Do you know which collection your coin is from?

Ex-Numis.com, the Provenance Hunting Website celebrates its first anniversary. Ex-numis.com, the only website 100% dedicated to the research of lost provenances for Ancient coins celebrates this January its first anniversary. In one year, Ex-Numis® has found thousands of lost provenances and satisfied hundreds of users like collectors, institutions, numismatic dealers, and auction houses. Launched in […]

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MintProducts Auctions PRESS RELEASE

By MintProducts Auctions ……….. MintProducts Auctions (MPA) will hold its first sale of 2016 this Spring at the New Hampshire Coin & Currency Expo in Manchester, NH. This is MPA’s second sale in conjunction with the expo. “After the success of our first auction at the NH coin expo, we are excited to hold another […]

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Coin and Currency Auction – MintProducts Auction on March 25 at NH Coin Expo

By MintProducts Auctions ……….. MintProducts Auctions (MPA) will hold its first sale of 2016 this Spring at the New Hampshire Coin & Currency Expo in Manchester, NH. This is MPA’s second sale in conjunction with the expo. “After the success of our first auction at the NH coin expo, we are excited to hold another […]

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Daniel Frank Sedwick’s Treasure, World & U.S. Coin Auction to be held October 29

 Daniel Frank Sedwick’s third “LIVE FLOOR” world coin and treasure auction in Orlando Florida  on October 29th will go down in history as the “Hearts and Royals” auction. Never before have so many Hearts (14) and Royals (46) been offered at the same time. Hearts and Royals  are very special silver cob coins from Potosí, […]

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Sedwick’s Treasure, World & U.S. Coin Auction 17 Now Online

Treasure, World & U.S. Coin Auction #17 Live on the Internet, Wednesday-Thursday, April 29-30, 2015   Our Treasure, World & U.S. Coin Auction #17 is now available for viewing and bidding online! We are dubbing this auction “The 1715 Fleet Anniversary Auction,” as it was 300 years ago this summer that the treasure-laden Spanish 1715 […]

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Impressive Rarities Set to Cross the Auction Block in Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio’s April 2015 Hong Kong Auction

Rarities from the W&B Capital Foundation Collection and Other Important Properties Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio’s April 2015 Hong Kong auction will entice bidders with a total of 2,077 lots of Chinese and Asian coins and banknotes from ancient to modern times, in four live Showcase sessions and two internet-only sessions. Session A commencing at 10:00 […]

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Impressive Rarities Set to Cross the Auction Block in Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio’s April 2015 Hong Kong Auction

Rarities from the W&B Capital Foundation Collection and Other Important Properties Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio’s April 2015 Hong Kong auction will entice bidders with a total of 2,077 lots of Chinese and Asian coins and banknotes from ancient to modern times, in four live Showcase sessions and two internet-only sessions. Session A commencing at 10:00 […]

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Classic U.S. Silver Coins highlight Winter ANA Coin Auction

Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #267 A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds Among major, ‘live’ coin auctions, smaller events with relatively modest offerings tend to draw more attention to coins that are not extremely expensive. In large events, six-figure coins often […]

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Classic U.S. Silver Coins highlight Winter ANA Coin Auction

Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #267 A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds Among major, ‘live’ coin auctions, smaller events with relatively modest offerings tend to draw more attention to coins that are not extremely expensive. In large events, six-figure coins often […]

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Father and Son The Tudors to Star as Sovereigns in Spink London Coin Sale

On 17th and 18th December 2014, Spink and Son will be holding their second December coin sale. It is  held over two days with ancient Greek, Roman, Islamic and modern world coins on the first day, and Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Tudor and Stuart English coins as well as a few Scottish and Irish coins, and modern […]

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Carson City Rarities lead Heritage’s PNG Auction offerings October 8-13

Two rarities from the fabled Carson City Mint highlight the offerings at Heritage’s October 8 – 13 US Coins Signature Auction to be held in conjunction with the PNG New York Invitational show. This event will take place October 8-9 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel, conveniently located in the heart of the world’s largest numismatic […]

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