Review

On April 26-28, Daniel Frank Sedwick hold his Auction 9 featuring the Fred Sedwick collection of Colombian coins. 90 percent of the auction sold for $ 1.7 mio (including buyer’s fee). Several lots sold for record prices.

A 1928 Chinese “Auto Dollar” Year 17 KM-Y428, L&M-609, AU58 PCGS brought $74,750 ? a record price for the type ? as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ $9.6+ million Rosemont, IL Signature® World & Ancient Coins Auction...

Outstanding ancient coins brought strong prices in the 2011 April Heritage-Gemini Auction, which took place at the Chicago International Coin Fair in Rosemont, IL on April 14. Overall, this auction realized over $3.3 million, including all buyer’s premiums...

The Umayyad dinar, dated 105h and struck from gold mined at a location owned by the Caliph himself, was the second most expensive coin ever sold at auction...

U.S. and World Realization Totals Combine to Reach Nearly $14 Million...

Stack’s Bowers Galleries realized $13,892,475 over eight U.S. and world sessions conducted March 29-April 2, 2011, continuing its lengthy tenure as the only official auctioneer of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Baltimore Expo...

With the impressive publication of the Dogan Collection “Ottoman Empire” the numismatic world became aware of this new collecting field. Now, Gorny & Mosch went one better with the Ede-Uçta Collection. It realized more than four times the estimate...

Malibu Collection Part II kicks-off promising year for numismatic auctions...

A 1907 rolled edge Indian Head eagle formerly belonging to Mint Director Frank A. Leach has sold for $ 2,185,000 to a Platinum Night floor bidder...

Ninety percent of the lots sold bringing 150 % of the total of their estimates or an average of well over $ 1,000 per lot...