Category Archives: Tiffany and Co.

Why Collect Commemoratives? A Better Question Might Be “Why Not?”

Collecting Commemoratives By Ron Drzewucki If you collect modern U. S. coins, then you collect commemoratives. Today, practically every coin the United States Mint produces commemorates someone or something. There’s a president on the obverse of every denomination, including Presidential $1 coins. The reverse of the quarter has been especially busy over the last 15 […]

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Aluminum Coins – Rarer Than Gold?

By Jack Vaughn for PCGS …… What do you think the cutlery was made of when Napoleon III had his prestigious guests over for food? Silver? Gold? The answer may be surprising, as they used aluminum cutlery. Guests of lesser status used mere silverware Aluminum is the most abundant metal in Earth’s crust (8.1%). However, […]

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Which Saint-Gaudens?

By David Hill for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …… There are over 160-years of records in the archives of the American Numismatic Society (ANS), including correspondence with big names inside and outside of numismatics–Victor David Brenner, Hermon MacNeil, Thomas Elder, Cornelius Vanderbilt, B. Max Mehl, Tiffany & Co., and so on. Sometimes it’s easy to […]

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Rare Roosevelt, Harding Inaugural Bronze Medals in Stack’s Bowers Showcase Auction

By James McCartney – Senior Numismatist, Stack’s Bowers …… Stack’s Bowers Galleries is thrilled to present some of the most famous and elusive United States Inaugural bronze medals in our official auction for the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Winter Expo in November. Highlighted by an incredible Gem SP-65 (PCGS) 1905 Roosevelt medal and an Uncirculated […]

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Karakorum: Tiffany Glass Adorns Coin Commemorating 800th Anniversary of the Great Mongol Capital

Karakorum 800th Anniversary Mongolia. 5,000 Togrog. 2020. Silver .999. 2 oz. 50 mm. Special Technology: smartminting© with tiffany glass inlay. Proof. Mintage: 800. B. H. Mayer’s Kunstprägeanstalt, Munich. Description of the Coin One side features the reconstruction of a building of the city of KARAKORUM from the front; red tiffany glass inlay in the central […]

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