The American Numismatic Association (ANA) is accepting scholarship applications for its 2023 Summer Seminar, the hobby’s premier educational event. Recipients will have the opportunity to attend one of two weeklong sessions, to be held June 17-22 and June 24-29 on the Colorado College campus adjacent to ANA headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. All members –...
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Unique New Jersey $3 Banknote Surfaces From Fabled S.S. Central America Sunken Treasure
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...
1792 Washington Cent Headlines Heritage Auction
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...
Former PCGS President Brings Certification Expertise to New Market
Brett Charville educates new collectors on how rare coin and trading card certification now assists video game hobby A former President of Professional Coin Grading Service, Brett Charville, has launched an informative website, www.StandardGaming.com, to educate collectors about how third-party certification concepts for coins and trading cards are helping the increasing popularity of video game...
CAC Announces Switch to Grading Service
Certified Acceptance Corporation is a Far Hills, New Jersey third-party coin certification company started in 2007 by coin dealer John Albanese. The firm evaluates certain numismatic U.S. coins already certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation or Professional Coin Grading Service. Coins that CAC deems high-end for their grades receive green stickers and coins that are under...
Dr. Harvey Richer: Writing the 100 Greatest Canadian Coins and Tokens
Dr. Harvey B. Richer’s new Whitman Publishing book, 100 Greatest Canadian Coins and Tokens, premiered this summer at the 2022 convention of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association in Ottawa. It made its United States debut a few weeks later at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money in Chicago. Now the 160-page hardcover coffee-table...
Q. David Bowers on A Guide Book of American Silver Eagles
Whitman Publishing’s new Guide Book of American Silver Eagles, by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, will debut this December, available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide. Here, Q. David Bowers, the namesake of Whitman’s popular “Bowers Series” of numismatic reference books (of which McMorrow-Hernandez’s work is no. 27), reviews the new volume and shares some thoughts on American...
1882 $100 Gold Certificate Brings $750,000
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...
Updated, Bigger Guide Book of Morgan Silver Dollars
Whitman Publishing will release the newly expanded and updated seventh edition of A Guide Book of Morgan Silver Dollars, by Q. David Bowers, for the 2022 holiday season. The 336-page book will be available in December from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide. In the meantime, it can be preordered (including online at www.Whitman.com). The seventh...
Leading First Bass Collection Auction Realizes $20.5 Million
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...