Category: Auctions

An 1870-S Three Dollar Gold, SP50 sold for a record $5.52 million, and three other coins reached seven figures to lead Heritage Auctions’ The Bass Collection, Part II US Coins Signature® Auction – Orlando FUN to $24,022,741 on Jan. 5. The auction was enormously successful by any metric: of the 103 offered lots, 30 established...

Unique New Jersey $3 Banknote, Keys To Fabled Ship’s Treasure Room, and Polhemus Counter-Stamped Double Eagle Also Set Records In Holabird Western Americana Collections Auction A unique wooden lid to a Wells Fargo & Co. treasure box was one of the many California Gold Rush sunken treasure highlights recovered from the fabled “Ship of Gold,”...

Banknotes found in Purser’s safe and recovered treasure shipment boxes willbe offered for the first time in December 3, 2022 auction A unique $3 denomination note issued by a New Jersey bank is among a small number of banknotes that survived the 1857 sinking of the fabled “Ship of Gold,” the S.S. Central America, and...

Rare 1786 Maris New Jersey Copper also featured in November 2 event A magnificent 1792 Washington President Cent is arguably the top draw in Heritage Auctions’ Estate of Mike Coltrane Collection of U.S. Coins Signature® Auction Nov. 2. All 86 lots in the event are from the collection of Coltrane, who died in January. “Mike’s...

Total from 3 Heritage coin and currency auctions held during Long Beach Expo top $49 million One of just two known examples of an extraordinary hand-signed, triple signature 1882 $100 gold certificate lived up to its billing – and then some – when it sold for $750,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach Expo US...

A magnificent 1821 half eagle rode a burst of furiously competitive bidding all the way to $4.62 million, leading one of the finest collections of U.S. gold coins and related patterns ever assembled to $20,459,645 in Heritage Auctions’ Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection Part I US Coins Signature®Auction — Long Beach Sept. 29. Proceeds from...