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News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #148 …..
On Thursday, Jan. 24, Stack’s-Bowers will auction a landmark set of large cents, along with an NGC... read more »
January 20, 2013 11:54 PM / 1 comment
Stack’s Bowers Galleries, preeminent auctioneer of rare coins and paper money, will present more than 3,000 lots of U.S. coins, tokens, medals, exonumia and other Americana-related items as part of its New York Americana Sale, January 22–24,... read more »
January 14, 2013 8:53 AM / 2 comments
Ex: Stickney, Ellsworth, Garrett The Guide Book Plate Coin
The history of this rare copper New Hampshire coinage is fairly well documented in the literature, especially in Sylvester S. Crosby’s Early Coins of America (1875), which reproduces... read more »
March 19, 2012 7:42 AM / no comments
Turn-of-the-Century Pennies Ranked as World’s Fourth All-Time Finest Collection in Its Category
eBay and David Lawrence Rare Coins today announced plans to auction one of the world’s largest – and rarest – Lincoln penny collections.... read more »
March 6, 2012 7:19 AM / 1 comment
Heritage Auctions – January 4, 2012
Auctioneer : Sam Foose
Early American copper specialist Denis Loring assembled a collection of large cents that included many varieties including the early dates.
In this auction sale, conducted by Heritage... read more »
January 30, 2012 7:39 AM / 1 comment
News & Analysis on scarce coins, markets, and the coin collecting community #89
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds for CoinWeek
In the Heritage auction at the FUN Convention in Orlando, two different coins each sold for $1.38 million each.... read more »
January 9, 2012 10:13 AM / 4 comments
News and Analysis on scarce coins, markets, and the collecting community #87
A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds
For decades, Denis Loring has been one of the most accomplished and knowledgeable collectors of large cents. The interest... read more »
December 22, 2011 9:35 PM / no comments
Early American copper rarities cross the block Thursday, Jan. 5, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando FL, as part Heritage’s FUN series of auctions
DALLAS, TX – The Denis W. Loring Collection of 1793 Large Cents, 12 in all, will... read more »
December 6, 2011 12:00 PM / no comments
Posted by David W. Lange, NGC Research Director
This month Dave discusses the difficulty of detecting cleaned copper and bronze coins.
My recent column on the mistaken perception held by many that old coin albums will still prompt attractive... read more »
October 25, 2011 3:18 PM / no comments
Sam Foose, Chief Auctioneer
David Lisot, Interviewer
Heritage Auctions has sold a collection of high-grade large cents assembled by collector Al Boka. Consignment Director and auctioneer Sam Foose discusses some highlights of the sale.
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Sale... read more »
September 16, 2011 2:13 AM / no comments
News and Analysis of scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #71
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
On Thursday, Sept 8th, at 7:00 PM PT, Heritage will auction Al Boka’s collection of large cents ‘by date.’... read more »
September 6, 2011 11:15 PM / no comments
Early American Copper enthusiasts have been saving up their, um, pennies, since they found out that we will be offering The Al Boka Copperheads Collection as a part of the 2011 September Long Beach Signature US Coin Auction, to be held September... read more »
September 5, 2011 8:34 AM / no comments
The 1792 pattern cents, Birch cent, half disme, disme, and quarter were the prototypes for what later became the cent, nickel, dime, and quarter that are still the staples of commerce today. These patterns were essential to the development... read more »
July 17, 2011 7:45 PM / no comments
News and Analysis on scarce coins, markets, and the coin collecting community #54
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
Two Cent Pieces are interesting and fun to collect. Last week, I wrote about Three Cent Nickels. Those who never heard of Three... read more »
May 25, 2011 12:23 AM / 2 comments
News and Analysis regarding scarce coins and coin markets #47
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
As I reported in my column on The Ten Leading Topics of 2010, the West Coast auction firm of B&M, a subsidiary of Spectrum, merged with Stack’s,... read more »
April 6, 2011 10:23 AM / no comments