Did you know that when Stack’s Bowers Galleries and Sotheby’s sold the finest known 1795 $10 in existence – graded MS-66+ (PCGS) and from the D. Brent Pogue Collection – that it became the most valuable $10 coin ever sold at auction, the most valuable 18th century United States gold coin of any denomination, and the most valuable United States gold coin released for circulation? Preserved in the Garrett Collection for nearly a century before it was sold by Johns Hopkins University in 1980, it more than doubled the high estimate of $1.2 million, receiving a final bid of $2,585,000 from a phone bidder.
