Strong 2020 Rare Coin and Banknote Market Despite Pandemic, Reports Professional Numismatists Guild Share Article Over $419 million of historic U.S. rare coins and paper money sold at major public auctions in 2020. The most valuable U.S. rare coin sold at auction in 2020 was this 1804-dated silver dollar for $3,360,000. Photo courtesy of Stack’s Bowers Galleries. This is the strongest rare coin market we’ve seen in years. TEMECULA, Calif. (PRWEB) January 06, 2021 It was the year of pandemic-related cancelled coin shows, but 2020 still resulted in one of the strongest U.S. rare coin and paper money markets in recent years, according to a year-end survey of major auction houses conducted by the Professional Numismatists Guild (http://www.PNGdealers.org), a nonprofit organization composed of many of the country’s top rare coin and paper money dealers.