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Last US gold coin sells for $18.87m Afp, New York Afp, New York A 1933 US gold coin that was never issued after Franklin D Roosevelt removed America from the gold standard sold for a record $18.87 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York Tuesday. The auction house described the 1933 Double Eagle, the last US gold coin made and intended for circulation, as "one of the most coveted coins in the world" and it didn't disappoint. The $20 coin, designed by the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sailed past its pre-sale estimate price of between $10 million and $15 million. It also smashe...

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A New Batch of Fairmont Collection Half Eagles Sells at Auction Liberty Head half eagles sourced from the Fairmont Collection in their recent March 2021 Las Vegas auction. There were numerous nice collector-grade coins but no rarities, and virtually no coins that would sell for over $10,000. All the coins were graded by PCGS and a sizable percentage were approved by CAC. How did these coins do? Let’s break down some of the coins by mint and try to make sense of the prices. The Fairmont coins have been selling now for around three years and for those of us who specialize in Liberty Head ...

Spread the love This June, Sotheby’s will be auctioning off three of the greatest rarities in the stamp and coin field. The 1933 Double Eagle $20 gold coin, the unique British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta, and the unique Inverted Jenny 1918 Plate Block. This is truly an incredible offering from a single collector to have captured three of the rarest and most unique collectibles in history. It is a bit unusual that a unique stamp from a less than the mainstream region has emerged as the rarest and sole-surviving example of the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta from 1856. It was last sold i...

2 minutes read By Helen Cook New York, Mar 11 (efe-epa).- “Never.” That was the curt response given by the Sotheby’s expert to questions about how often an auction like the upcoming one had occurred. On June 8, the world-renowned auction house is set to host the bidding on three enormously valuable items: the world’s most expensive stamp, the most popular US stamp and the second-most valuable coin on the planet. “That’s the quick answer: never, because these are three objects that are the absolute apex in their fields, and they’re each unique,” said the director of the Sothe...