By Stack's Bowers Galleries
Did you know the all-time finest PCGS Registry set of Lincoln Cents with Major Varieties, The ESM Collection, set many price records when it crossed the block in our official auction of the Whitman Spring Expo? The ESM Collection featured all of the famous varieties of the series.
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By Melissa Karstedt, Auctioneer
The Stack’s Bowers team is headed to Schaumburg,
Illinois for the 78th Central States Numismatic Society Convention. Once again,
it will be held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center. The show
begins with a “professional preview” Wednesday, April 25, from noon until 6 PM,
and is open to the public Thursday, April 26 through Saturday, April 28, from
10 AM to 6 PM.
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By Mark Schimel, New York Store Manager
The bullion market is
getting very interesting lately. Even though silver has not been able to
crack $17 per ounce, the supply of silver seems to be drying up.
Wholesalers have monster boxes of silver eagles on back order, and the premiums
have come up on 100-ounce bars. Maybe this is a good time to pick up some
silver for your portfolio -- the signs may be telling us something.
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By Stack's Bowers Galleries
Check in to see if you got the answer correct from last week!
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By Ben Orooji, Numismatist & Assistant Production Manager, U.S. Coins
The Buffalo nickel was designed by James Earle
Fraser, a student of the famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and is probably the
most distinctively American design among the coinage of the United States. This
was, in fact, the intention of Fraser who elected to use an American bison as
the model for the reverse because he “…found no motif within the boundaries of
the United States so distinctive as the American buffalo.”
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By Chris Chatigny, Numismatist & Cataloger
The
dust has settled after the tremendous Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio April Hong
Kong Showcase Auction. One of the stand-out results was lot 50307, a
magnificent Long
Whisker Dragon Pattern Dollar, that
realized $180,000. This pattern came about during the final period of the
Chinese Empire and the Qing (Ch’ing) Dynasty. The Central Mint in Tientsin
minted a multitude of coinage types in the later portion of the Empire, in an
attempt to unify the currency system of China. Unfortunately, China’s
administrative disorganization (as well as a lack of sufficient funds)
inhibited the reforms from gaining traction. Certainly the revolution
overthrowing the monarchy later that year also prohibited their widespread use.
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By Harvey Stack, Co-Founder
As noted before, in 1953 my uncle, J.B. Stack, traveled to Lawrence,
Massachusetts to appraise an estate collection there. He made an offer and
eventually received a call that his appraisal was accepted, and that our offer for
the collection would be also accepted. J.B. was delighted. Since he did not
drive and he and Morton were needed at the shop, I went to pick up the
collection, which was to be the Davis Graves Collection. It had been stored in
an abandoned weaving factory, watched over by a caretaker (I told of my
packing and taking the collection back to New York in an earlier story). It
consumed a portion of the funds we had reserved for purchases from the
Farouk sale. However, it was a great collection, mainly large cents, but with numerous
early colonial coins, not seen on the market for many decades. Because of the
detailed cataloging it required, it could not be sold before the early part of
1954.
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By Stack's Bowers Galleries
Did you know Stack’s Bowers Galleries set a new public
auction record for the 17th known example of the famed (2000)-P
Sacagawea dollar / Washington quarter mule? Offered as lot 2382 in our March 2018 Baltimore auction and certified MS-67 by NGC, the newly discovered piece
saw fierce bidding up to $192,000, establishing a new public auction record for
this rare modern Mint error. This new price record significantly surpassed the
previous record of $158,625, set by Stack's Bowers Galleries in their August
2012 Philadelphia ANA Sale.
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