Stunning results include many impressive records
For more than nine decades, Stack’s Bowers Galleries has achieved worldwide acclaim for its presentations of rare coins, medals, tokens and other numismatic issues. Continuing the firm’s impressive legacy, the August 2024 Global Showcase Auction produced spectacular results for its consignors, garnering worldwide attention from numismatic enthusiasts on its way to nearly $50 million in total prices realized. (All prices include the buyer’s fee.)
Across the live and internet-only sessions featuring United States material, strong prices were realized in every category from numismatic Americana to early American copper and colonial issues, type coins, silver and gold. Comprising over a dozen named collections and many additional consignments, the offering was one of the largest in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ history. Specialized sessions included Part VI of the Sydney F. Martin Collection and the Fairmont Collection—Sussex Set, offerings that attracted strong bids from connoisseurs of early American medals and colonial coinage and rare date gold coins, respectively.
Additional sessions featured items from the Cold Spring Harbor Type Set, the Great Pacific Collection, The Tom Hyland Collection, the Knohl Collection, the PentaMint™ Collection, the Senator Platt Family Collection, the Reich Family Collection, the Lucius S. Ruder Collection, the Srotag Collection, and the Walden Collection, alongside other quality consignments. Many coins had been off the market for decades, while other holdings were carefully assembled more recently by selecting top quality specimens that appeared on the market.
“Demand from collectors and dealers remains very strong,” said Brian Kendrella, President of Stack’s Bowers Galleries. “Rarities Night started the week with tremendous excitement and the action remained intense throughout all sessions. Our world class professionals, working with consignors, brought some great properties to market, and the outstanding presentation resulted in fabulous results.”
Notable prices realized from the Stack’s Bowers Galleries August 2024 Global Showcase Auction include:
Lot 4030. Undated (ca. late 18th-early 19th century) United States Consular Seal Embossing Stamp. Brass, Wood Handle. Choice Extremely Fine. Realized $31,200.
Lot 4043. Undated (ca. 1889-1907) Studio Card of Cloud Chief, of the Cheyenne. Realized $9,600.
Lot 4053. 1803 Washington Fame Medal. Musante GW-87, Baker-84. Bronze. Plain Edge. MS-63 BN (PCGS). Realized $7,200.
Lot 4067. 1921 Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge Inaugural Medal. Dusterberg HIM-S70, MacNeil WGH-1921-2. Silver. Specimen-55 (PCGS). Realized $48,000.
Lot 4078. 1869 United States Assay Commission Medal Mule. JK AC-7. Rarity-8. Columbia. Aluminum. Specimen-63 (PCGS). Realized $28,800.
Lot 4135. 1915 United States Assay Commission Medal. JK AC-59. Rarity-7. Silver. Presented to John Skelton Williams. Specimen-65 (PCGS). Realized $28,800.
Lot 4136. 1916 United States Assay Commission Medal. JK AC-60. Rarity-6. Silver. Presented to John Skelton Williams. Specimen-63 (PCGS). Realized $18,000.
Lot 4177. Undated (ca. 1860) Daniel Webster Memorial Medal. Julian PE-37. Silver. MS-63 (PCGS). Realized $15,600.
Lot 4188. 1876 United States Centennial Medal. First Size. Julian CM-11, Swoger 3lbv1. Silver. MS-60 (NGC). Realized $7,800.
Lot 4589. 1924-D Buffalo Nickel. MS-65+ (PCGS). Realized $15,600. A record for the grade.
Lot 5091. 1927-S Standing Liberty Quarter. MS-63 (PCGS). Realized $12,600. A record for the grade.
Lot 5499. 1895-O Morgan Silver Dollar. AU-58 (PCGS). Realized $13,200. A record for the grade.
Lot 5595. 1840-O Liberty Head Quarter Eagle. Winter-2. Small O. AU-58 (PCGS). CAC. Realized $10,200. A record for a PCGS/CAC AU-58.
Lot 5922. Undated (1973) The Signal Commemorative Silver Ingot. By Scott Newhall. 5.66 Troy Ounces. 999.9 Fine. Realized $9,900.
Lot 5948. 1866 Shield Nickel. Rays. Struck 30% Off Center. MS-66 (NGC). Kenneth Bressett Signature. Realized $11,400. A record price for an off-center Shield nickel.
Lot 6009. 1759 Quebec Taken Medal. Betts-421. Gold. MS-61 (PCGS).Realized $45,600; $13,400 more than it realized in 2009.
Lot 6010. 1760 Montreal Taken Medal. Betts-429. Silver. MS-61 (PCGS). Realized $16,800. A world record for a Betts-429.
Lot 6020. 1781 (1789) Daniel Morgan at Cowpens Medal. Original Dies. Betts-593. Copper. Specimen-62 BN (PCGS). Realized $192,000; $136,800 more than it realized in our November 2019 sale of the John W. Adams Collection.
Lot 6113. 1760 Voce Populi Halfpenny. Nelson-4, Zelinka 2-A, W-13820. Rarity-3. No P. MS-65 BN (PCGS). Realized $9,600.
Lot 6184. “1776” (post-1876) Continental Dollar. Dickeson Copy. Kenney-2, HK-852b, W-15650. Gold. Overstruck on an 1876 Liberty Head Double Eagle. MS-64 (PCGS). Realized $30,000.
Lot 8059. 1919 Joan of Arc Medal. By Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington. Miller-39. Silver. Edge No. 59. Mint State, Light Scratches. Realized $1,920.
Lot 9146. 1925-S Buffalo Nickel. MS-64 (PCGS). Realized $9,000.
Lot 9275. 1829 Capped Bust Half Dime. LM-11. Rarity-6. AU-58 (PCGS). Realized $5,760.
Lot 10397. 1851-D Gold Dollar. Winter 3-D. MS-61 (PCGS). Realized $6,000. A record for a PCGS MS-61.
Lot 11134. Undated KAMEHANUHA III Gun Stock Insignia. Uniface. Medcalf-Russell p. 61, Gould-Bressett 109. Brass. Extremely Fine. Realized $4,320.
Complete results for the Stack’s Bowers Galleries August 2024 Global Showcase Auction are available at StacksBowers.com. For information about consigning to one of the firm’s upcoming Showcase or Online auctions call 800-458-4646 or email Consign@StacksBowers.com.
About Stack’s Bowers Galleries
Stack’s Bowers Galleries conducts live, internet and specialized auctions of rare U.S. and world coins and currency and ancient coins, as well as direct sales through retail and wholesale channels. The company’s 90+ year legacy includes the cataloging and sale of many of the most valuable United States coin and currency collections to ever cross an auction block — The D. Brent Pogue Collection, The John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, The Joel R. Anderson Collection, The Norweb Collection, The Cardinal Collection, The Sydney F. Martin Collection and The Battle Born Collection — to name just a few.
World coin and currency collections include The Pinnacle Collection, The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection of World Gold Coins, The Kroisos Collection, The Alicia and Sidney Belzberg Collection, The Salton Collection, The Wa She Wong Collection, the Augustana Collection of gold rarities from across western Europe, the Richard Margolis Collection of world coins and medals and The Thos. H. Law Collection. Recently the firm was awarded the privilege of bringing the most valuable world coin collection to auction – the L. E. Bruun Collection.
The company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, with galleries in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Offices are also located in New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Sacramento, South Carolina, Virginia, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Paris and Vancouver. Stack’s Bowers Galleries hosts an annual Global Showcase in August featuring United States coins and currency, Ancient coins and World coins and currency in its Costa Mesa auction gallery. They are also the Official Auctioneer for several important numismatic events, including the New York International Numismatic Convention, the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring, Summer and Winter Expos, the Spring and Fall Hong Kong shows, and the Maastricht Paper Money shows.
