The August 2023 Stack’s Bowers sale of Physical Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency attained a record total of $730,624 USD–up more than 30% over their offering from the year before, making it Stack’s Bowers’ most valuable Crypto-related offering so far. This result puts the company’s total in this category over $2 million for 2023 and above $4 […]
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The Stack’s Bowers Galleries June 2023 Official Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo realized a total of $6,066,920 USD for an impressive selection of United States coins, tokens, medals, and physical cryptocurrency. The leading price of the sale was for an 1879 Four-Dollar Gold Stella graded MS-61 by PCGS that brought $114,000, followed […]
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries is proud to announce their June 2023 Showcase Auction, the official auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Summer Expo. This sale represents the kick-off to the firm’s exciting summer auction season and offers impressive selections of Numismatic Americana, Colonial and United States coins, and Physical Cryptocurrency. The sale begins on Tuesday, […]
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By Archives International Auctions (AIA) …… Auction 84B: Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2-3, 2023 To be sold in a timed internet public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET ONLINE CATALOGUE HERE * * * The auction offers low opening prices with no reserves. This is an automatic timed sale with lots closing every 60 […]
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The first-ever shipwreck treasure gold bar encapsulated by NGC will cross the auction block in Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC’s upcoming Treasure Auction 33. The unique Colombian gold “finger” bar was lost for over 330 years in the sinking of the Spanish treasure galleon Maravillas on January 5, 1656, off Grand Bahama Island. The bar will […]
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The first-ever shipwreck treasure gold bar encapsulated by NGC will cross the auction block in Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC’s upcoming Treasure Auction 33. The unique Colombian gold “finger” bar was lost for over 330 years in the sinking of the Spanish treasure galleon Maravillas on January 5, 1656, off Grand Bahama Island. The bar will […]
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The first-ever shipwreck treasure gold bar encapsulated by NGC will cross the auction block in Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC’s upcoming Treasure Auction 33. The unique Colombian gold “finger” bar was lost for over 330 years in the sinking of the Spanish treasure galleon Maravillas on January 5, 1656, off Grand Bahama Island. The bar will […]
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$679,456 (USD) in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency coins was sold by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in the Physical Cryptocurrency Session of their Spring 2023 Showcase Auction. This set a new record as the single most valuable live auction of crypto coinage and also reflects a 40% year-over-year increase in prices realized compared to the firm’s Spring 2022 […]
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By Archives International Auctions (AIA) …… Auction 84: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET Auction 84 Features 783 Lots of U.S., Chinese, and World Banknotes, Scripophily, Historic Ephemera and Security Printing Ephemera ONLINE CATALOGUE HERE Please register as early as possible in case you need […]
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The Stack’s Bowers Galleries Official Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring Expo, will be held March 20-24 & 27-29 in Costa Mesa, California. Spanning 15 sessions, the sale features significant named collections and numerous rarities across a broad range of categories including Numismatic Americana, U.S. colonial and federal coinage and paper money, and […]
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Holabird Western Americana Collections conducted the final auction of historic items recovered from the 1857 sinking of the legendary “Ship of Gold”, the SS Central America, representing a time capsule of Gold Rush life A nearly two-pound Kellogg & Humbert assayer’s gold ingot was among the highlights in the second and final auction of […]
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Heritage Auctions has decided to turn its world medal and token showcase auctions into a regular quarterly event that targets collectors of world exonumia. The first quarterly offering of world medals and tokens is currently open for bidding at Coins.HA.com, concluding with a live session on Sunday, March 12. With 433 lots, this auction is […]
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries announces the Physical Cryptocurrency Session of their Official Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring Expo. This is Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ first crypto offering since their historic Cryptocurrency Anniversary sale in November 2022, an event that pushed the firm’s total prices realized in this category above $2 million. The Spring 2023 […]
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By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek …. Sotheby’s of New York is currently offering the Nobel Prize for Literature medal given to Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1911. Bidding on the one-of-a-kind gold medal, lot 107 in Sotheby’s current Books and Manuscripts Auction, ends Wednesday, March 1, at 9:46 am EST. The starting bid on this […]
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By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek …. Sotheby’s of New York is currently offering the Nobel Prize for Literature medal given to Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1911. Bidding on the one-of-a-kind gold medal, lot 107 in Sotheby’s current Books and Manuscripts Auction, ends Wednesday, March 1, at 9:46 am EST. The starting bid on […]
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By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek …. Sotheby’s of New York is currently offering the Nobel Prize for Literature medal given to Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1911. Bidding on the one-of-a-kind gold medal, lot 107 in Sotheby’s Books and Manuscripts Auction, ends Wednesday, March 1, at 9:46 am EST. The starting bid on this […]
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Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are pleased to announce that we will be holding our next auction sale on Saturday, February 25, 2023. The sale includes a remarkable variety of rare and out-of-print works on coins, medals, and paper money from antiquity to the present, combining selections from an impressive library on world coins with […]
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Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are pleased to announce that we will be holding our next auction sale on Saturday, February 25, 2023. The sale includes a remarkable variety of rare and out-of-print works on coins, medals, and paper money from antiquity to the present, combining selections from an impressive library on world coins with […]
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Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are pleased to announce that we will be holding our next auction sale on Saturday, February 25, 2023. The sale includes a remarkable variety of rare and out-of-print works on coins, medals, and paper money from antiquity to the present, combining selections from an impressive library on world coins with […]
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Over $23 million in United States coins and currency was sold in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries Winter 2022 Showcase Auction, marking an incredibly successful close to the firm’s 2022 U.S. Showcase Auction season. Presented was an exciting array of Numismatic Americana, U.S. colonial and federal coinage, and physical bitcoins and cryptocurrency, including several significant collections […]
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This December event features almost 500 gold pieces and coins and jewelry from the world’s most famous hidden treasure This time, at least, the hunt for Forrest Fenn’s treasure won’t be so challenging. What remains from that famed chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains – for a decade, the stuff of dreams and countless […]
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries is proud to have conducted Part II of the Sydney F. Martin Collection in Baltimore at their Winter 2022 Showcase Auction, the official auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo. Martin was a longtime supporter and enthusiastic member of the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4), and it was fitting that his […]
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A unique American silver medal depicting the presentation of the Declaration of Independence set a new record during Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC’s November 3 and 4 Treasure Auction 32. The live online and floor auction was itself a record sale for the firm with over $4.27 million sold across 1,622 lots. The large Proof silver […]
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Auction 80: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET Your participation in the auction is appreciated and can be conducted safely in the comfort of your own home. We hope you enjoy our current offering from our 80th auction. Stay safe, stay well, and Good Luck […]
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Auction 79: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET Your participation in the auction is appreciated and can be conducted safely in the comfort of your own home. We hope you enjoy our current offering from our 79th auction. Stay safe, stay well, and Good Luck […]
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The United States Mint is pleased to announce the public auction on September 1 of special limited editions of 2021 American Eagle at Dusk and at Dawn 35th Anniversary One-Ounce American Eagle Bullion Coins. These limited-edition coins marking the transition between old and new designs were produced during a special April 2021 ceremony. The event […]
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries is thrilled to announce another unprecedented selection of bitcoins and physical cryptocurrency in their Summer 2022 Global Showcase Auction. This offering comes on the heels of the firm’s record-setting sales of bitcoins in their April and June 2022 auctions, where strong premiums of up to 5,000% were realized. Collector demand for physical […]
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The summer auctions are only just over and the next Künker auction is already about to start. On six auction days, over 3,400 lots with coins and medals from the ancient world to modern times, orders and decorations from all over the world as well as numismatic literature await you in eLive Auction 72. By […]
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The Heritage Auctions sale of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to independent Russian journalist and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov fetched $103.5 million USD from an anonymous buyer at a live global auction event at the Times Center in Manhattan on Monday night. Proceeds raised from the auction will support the United Nations […]
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Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the influential Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta, will auction his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal on June 20 through Heritage Auctions to benefit children and their families forced to flee Ukraine and those internally displaced since the start of the war in February. All proceeds will support UNICEF’s humanitarian response […]
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By Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC …… Spanish colonial rarities in the form of coins and shipwreck treasure bars paved the way to $4.02 million (USD) in Daniel Frank Sedwick’s May 3-5 Treasure, World, and U.S. Coin Auction 31. This is the firm’s third consecutive sale to break the $4 million level. The top coin lot […]
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Many Unique and Finest Known Historic Numismatic Rarities to be Sold at Auction Saturday, May 14, 2022 The most significant and consequential specialized Numismatic and Fiscal History auction event Early American History Auctions has offered in over two decades is on tap to close Saturday, May 14, 2022, at 9:00 AM Pacific Time / […]
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Auction 75: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET During this unprecedented time period, the team at Archives International is committed to taking every safety precaution to protect participants in our auctions: We have continued to reduce the number of team members in the office at […]
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By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ….. One of the most prolific and famous artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso’s artwork is instantly recognizable for its distinctive surrealist and cubist tendencies. Inevitably, like all artists whose works spanned multiple decades, Picasso’s style changed over time. In the early 1940s, Picasso began an affair with […]
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Auction 74: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET During this unprecedented time period, the team at Archives International is committed to taking every safety precaution to protect participants in our auctions: We have continued to reduce the number of team members in the office at […]
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Auction 73: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET During this unprecedented time period, the team at Archives International is committed to taking every safety precaution to protect participants in our auctions: We have continued to reduce the number of team members in the office at […]
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Historical Testimonies of the International Coin Trade at Künker from 7 to 9 December 2021, part 3 of the Alain Poinsignon Library will be on offer. It contains almost 2,000 lots with historical auction catalogs. You will find all the big names of the numismatic world: from Adolph E. Cahn to L. & L. Hamburger […]
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A physical Lealana 0.1 Bitcoin was sold for $33,600 USD by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in their November 2021 Showcase Auction, representing a nearly 500% premium above the face value, or “peel value”, of approximately $5,700 at the time of the sale. Graded SP-70 by PCGS, it was the very first bitcoin from the Lealana series […]
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Since 1988, an American collector has quietly been assembling one of the most impressive groupings of British Campaign Medals ever assembled in this country. Acquired through private sources and major auctions in the United States and the United Kingdom, the medals of the Gem Collection were gathered with an eye not just on history, but […]
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By Chris Bulfinch for CoinWeek ….. GreatCollections (GC) is auctioning a physical bitcoin created by Casascius Coins. Dated 2011, the 25-bitcoin coin is certified MS-67 Gold Shield by PCGS. The highest bid at time of writing was $920,000 USD; the value of 25 bitcoins stood at $1,584,650 at the same time, according to the […]
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Auction 71: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 To be sold at public auction beginning at 11:00 am ET During this unprecedented time period, the team at Archives International is committed to taking every safety precaution to protect participants in our auctions: We have continued to reduce the number of team members in the office at […]
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Gold and silver medallions, made specifically by the Robbins Company for flight missions in space, started all the way back on Apollo 7. Created as a commemorative gift for the astronauts, as well as for friends and family, somewhere between 255 and 450 were made for each Apollo mission. The finest Apollo 11 example ever […]
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By Mike Byers for Mint Error News …… Here is a Selection of U.S. Proof Error Coins that are featured in the upcoming August 2021 ANA World’s Fair Of Money US Coins Signature Auction #1333. Images Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com 1972-S Ike Dollar on a Cent Planchet Ike Dollar on a Dime Planchet PR67 […]
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Künker eLive Auction 67 is online. From now on you can study all pieces of the upcoming auction at your leisure. You can expect more than 1,500 lots, from the ancient world to modern times – as well as more than 900 lots of orders and decorations. The auction begins on Monday evening with rarities […]
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By CoinWeek Staff Reports ….. On Tuesday, June 8, Sotheby’s set an auction record for a rare coin that would have been inconceivable even days ago, achieving $18.9 million USD for the only legal-to-own 1933 double eagle Saint-Gaudens $20 gold coin. The coin, the highlight of fashion shoe designer Stuart Weitzman’s “Three Treasures”, brought spirited […]
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Part 2 of Künker’s eLive Auction 66, featuring military orders and decorations, is online. From now on you can study all pieces of the upcoming auction at your leisure. The first part of our online auction contains the collection “International Red Cross” from Heinrich Baumann (1930-2011), a passionate Red Cross member from Donaueschingen. Over many […]
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Pre-Sale Bidding Ends Wednesday, April 21 Click Here to Place Your Bids Stack’s Bowers Galleries is proud to present their April 2021 Precious Metals Auction, a new auction platform for buying bullion with no buyer’s fees. The interest in bullion has seen a steady increase over the past several years, as interest in this […]
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The NGC-certified NC Collection boasts hundreds of rarities carefully collected by one of China’s most famous families Coins from the NC Collection — an outstanding group of vintage Chinese rarities certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) — will be offered in a sale presented by Champion Auctions that is set to take place on […]
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