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Their main value as a currency is to help provide exact change, and most wind up in a drawer or jar and quickly forgotten about. ... One from 1983 recently sold for a record $26,000 at auction ...
The 1972 Doubled Die cent is worth a pretty penny,” said Pearlman, sharing that the Numismatic Guaranty Company Price Guide “estimates the current retail value at $175 in Extremely Fine ...
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Heritage Auctions [37] January 2015 $2,400,000 1854-S $5 XF45 United States Heritage Auctions August 18, 2021 $2,350,000 1808 Quarter eagle United States Sotheby's/Stack's Bowers [38] April 20, 2015 $2,350,000 1793 1793 Cent Chain S-4 United States Heritage Auctions [39] January 2015 $2,300,000 1804 Bust Dollar United States Adams, Carter
A coin catalog (or coin catalogue) is a listing of coin types. Information may include pictures of the obverse and reverse (front and back), date and place of minting, distribution type, translation of inscriptions, description of images, theme, metal type, mintage, edge description, orientation of the coin, weight, diameter, thickness, design credentials, shape and prices for various grades.
PCGS maintains CoinFacts, the "single source of information on U.S. coins." The free site publishes information about all federal and most non-federal U.S. coin issues, including their rarity statistics, PCGS Price Guide values, population data, public auction performances, die varieties, and photographs. [15] [16]
Along with its sister publication, the older Handbook of United States Coins (The Official Blue Book), it is considered an authoritative U.S. coin price guide. The Guide Book and Handbook got their nicknames (and now official trademarks), the "Red Book" and the "Blue Book," due to their respective solid red and blue covers. [1]
[18] [19] The company became the official auctioneer of the American Numismatic Association in March 2022. [20] Later that year, the auction house loaned four coins to the Central States Numismatic Society for a special exhibition in Schaumburg, Illinois. [21] In August, GreatCollections auctioned ten 100-year-old pennies for $1.1 million.