October 26, 2021
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Oct 26 — An extremely rare Edward VIII Pattern Gold 5 Sovereign certified by Numismatic Guaranty Company™ (NGC®) has realized €2.11 million (about $2.45 million), again setting a record for any British coin sold at auction. It was the top lot in an impressive sale presented by MDC Monaco that saw 22 other NGC-certified numismatic rarities realize prices over $100,000.
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Newly-Discovered New England Shilling from 1652 Estimated to be Worth Over $300,000
Oct 21 — The incredible discovery will be offered at online auction online by Morton & Eden in London on Friday 26 November 2021.
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries to Auction Major Polish Rarity
Oct 20 — This major Polish numismatic rarity is probably the only specimen known of this weight.
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Sarah Miller Promoted to Senior Vice President at Heritage Auctions
Oct 19 — Miller, who is also a numismatic expert, will join President Greg Rohan as one of the executives responsible for overseeing the New York office for the world’s largest numismatic auctioneer.
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Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio Hong Kong Auction Surpasses $30 Million Mark for Second Consecutive Time
Oct 19 — The sale presented over 8,000 lots, ensuring that collectors across the numismatic spectrum had plenty of options. Over 96.5% of all lots offered found their way into new collections.
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The Top Five Results of Künker’s Auction Sales 351-354
Oct 15 — 13.6 million euros: that’s the total result of Künker’s Fall Auction Sales. This is almost twice the estimate of about 7 million euros. A remarkable result that was achieved thanks to numerous prices in the six-digit range, including a new record for a Prussian coin!
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Oct 13 — Auction houses Stack’s Bowers Galleries and Künker have been chosen to sell the illustrious Mark and Lottie Salton Collection, a comprehensive holding of many thousands of chiefly gold and silver coins of Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Europe from the medieval period to the 20th century.
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CAC Coins Bring Premiums in September
Oct 9 — In addition to faring well in Internet sales during the month of September, CAC approved coins outperformed other certified coins in live auctions in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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October 2021 Greensheet Market Report: Long Beach Sale Focal Point of October
Oct 8 — The Heritage Long Beach Signature U.S. currency auction, which takes place October 6th to 8th, will feature the first Platinum Night session since April.
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World Banknote Auctions presents the Raqmu Collection of Jordan
Oct 8 — The collection has now been posted to the auction company web site, www.worldbanknoteauctions.com.
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Edward VIII Pattern Leads Extraordinary Group of NGC-certified Rare Coins in MDC Monaco Sale
Oct 7 — A King Edward VIII gold pattern that was certified by Numismatic Guaranty Company™ (NGC®) and set a record earlier this year for most expensive British coin sold at auction is the centerpiece of an extraordinary group of coins presented by MDC Monaco.
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Künker Internet Auction Offers Nudes and Eros in Numismatics from the W. Risse Collection
Oct 7 — In its eLive Premium Auction 356, Künker auctions off the W. Risse Collection with medals entitled “Nuditas in nummis – Nude and Eros in Numismatics”. The pieces cover the time span from the Renaissance to modern times.
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Künker Internet Auction Offers German Coins and Medals from a South German Private Collection
Oct 6 — 478 lots of mostly German coins of the 19th and 20th centuries of outstanding quality – that is the offer of Künker’s eLive Premium Auction 355 taking place on 12 October 2021 starting at 6 p.m.
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Childs-Pogue 1804 Silver Dollar Realizes Fair Collector Price
Oct 5 — The star of the Stack’s-Bowers Rarities Night was the Childs-Pogue 1804 silver dollar, which was first PCGS certified as Proof-68 in 1999.
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America's First Half Dollar Could Have Been Held by a Founding Father
Oct 4 — Researchers have differing opinions about exactly how many 1794 half dollars were struck, but the prevailing consensus (based on Mint delivery warrants) suggests 5,300 1794 half dollars were delivered in December 1794 and 18,464 half dollars dated 1794 were delivered on February 4, 1795 for a total of 23,464 pieces struck.
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Finest Known 1893-S Shatters Auction Record for a Morgan Silver Dollar
Oct 2 — On Sunday, August 29, 2021, GreatCollections reported that they sold the finest known 1893-S Morgan silver dollar in an online-only auction for $2,086,875. This coin was PCGS graded MS67 before 2005 and CAC approved in 2008. The result is a public sale record for any Morgan silver dollar.
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Gorgeous Gold Coin Bridges the Gap Between Art and Numismatics
Sep 28 — Many collectors and art enthusiasts have heard the story about how President Teddy Roosevelt so hated the coin designs that were in circulation during his day that he wrote to Treasury Secretary Shaw "I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness."
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Time Flies With Amazing Continental Dollar
Sep 26 — The Continental dollar, one of the most storied and researched coins in American numismatics for more than two centuries, continues to be among the most enigmatic relics of the colonial American era.
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Sep 22 — Experts believed that Hird’s entire collection had been sold or gifted prior to his death in 1973, but these exquisite coins were recently rediscovered by his family. The sale of these “forgotten” coins provides collectors with a rare opportunity to acquire extraordinary pieces, many of which are the only known example in private hands.
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Legend Rare Coin Auctions Renews Sponsorship of PCGS Members Only Shows
Sep 22 — The longstanding partnership between Professional Coin Grading Service and Legend Rare Coin Auctions continues as the New Jersey boutique coin firm renews its sponsorship of the PCGS Members Only Coin Shows.
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A New Currency for a New Japan
Sep 21 — On 27 September 2021, an icon of Japanese coinage will be auctioned off as part of the Schwarz Collection offered by Künker: the 20 yen piece of 1870 of which only very few specimens were minted to be given to dignitaries of the imperial court.
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