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The GreatCollections.com website launched in late 2010, facilitating the sale and purchase of coins and paper money in online auctions. [6] It has since become well known for auctioning rare examples of American currency, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] such as the Cigarra Collection, [ 9 ] and a collection of Indian Head nickels that sold for over $500,000.
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]
The NGC Census reports how many examples of each issue NGC has certified by grade, which helps determine relative rarity. Census figures are often falsely inflated due to resubmissions of the same coins. NGC Coin Price Guide lists pricing data for most US coin (and some modern Chinese) issues. NGC Auction Central reports auction prices realized ...
The Federal Reserve Banks use these certificates as a small fraction of the collateral for Federal Reserve Notes. [54] In addition to the gold, the depository currently holds ten 1933 Double Eagle gold coins, a 1974-D aluminum cent, and twelve gold (22-karat) Sacagawea dollar coins that flew on the Space Shuttle. [36] [55]
Archaeologists found three more ceramic jars of coins in nearby ruins of a masonry building from medieval France. Cache of coins was hidden in a box underground for 850 years — until now. See it
The overvalued coins were marketed through a Heritage Auctions-backed company named Certified Rare Coin Galleries, which used infomercials to sell silver and gold U.S. coins for more than twice their actual value. Heritage Auctions agreed to pay $1.2 million in restitution, though Halperin continues to insist that most of the coin grades he ...
The auction included a $2.28 million world record for the most expensive British coin ever sold at public auction. [ 39 ] An original poster promoting a 1953 Hank Williams concert in Canton, Ohio, on New Year's Day sold for a record $150,000 on May 1, 2021, beating out The Beatles as the world's most expensive concert poster ever sold at auction.
After 1968, coins were minted in very high numbers, making silver coins uncommon, plus the introduction of silver-rejecting bank machines took many silver coins out of circulation. This all made silver too hard to find for coin roll hunters, so they primarily searched for 1922-1964 nickels for their numismatic value and 1965-1981 Nickels for ...