An industry stalwart and cornerstone of the hobby, Stack's Bowers Galleries is no stranger to record setting auctions that attract overwhelming enthusiasm. However, their recent World and Ancient Coin Collectors Choice Online salesauctions conducted exclusively online though with the flair of a live, in-person salehave continued to present increased offerings and produce staggering hammer prices. This is confirmed by their most recently completed sale from February, an auction which saw their highest lot total to datea nearly 40% increase from last year's February sale!
Stack's Bowers Galleries' March 2020 Baltimore Auctions have been relocated from the Baltimore Convention Center to a facility near their California home office. The auction schedule published in the catalogs and on the SBG website (StacksBowers.com) will be the same, with only the physical location of the event changing.
A rare 1804 silver dollar, the most famous prize in coin collecting, will be sold in Baltimore on March 20, at an auction conducted by Stack's Bowers Galleries of Santa Ana, California. One of just 15 known to exist, the auction house expects the coin to bring between $1.2 and $1.5 million. When it was auctioned on behalf of Johns Hopkins University in 1980, it became the most valuable silver coin in the world. It was acquired by JHU by bequest from the Garrett Family, who first bought the coin in 1883.
The building at 123 West 57th Street that was the historic location of Stack's Bowers has been sold to real estate developers with future plans for the space. For 67 years, this location housed the operations of the Stack family and organization and has been a numismatic landmark in New York City. Collectors from all over the world would congregate at the office to visit and talk coins, whether they were buying, selling or participating in auctions.
Stack's Bowers Galleries will be presenting their first United States currency auction event of the year in Baltimore, Maryland, March 18-20, 2020. Headlined by the D. Brent Pogue Collection of United States Paper Money, the U.S. Currency sessions will feature more than 600 live lots with estimates totaling in excess of $11 million!
Stack's Bowers Galleries is excited to announce their February 26-28, 2020, Collectors Choice Online auctiontheir largest such sale to date offering World coins, banknotes and Ancient coins. The sale comprises over 2,000 lots and has high-end estimate of just over $1 million. The firm's Collectors Choice Online auctions capture the feel of an auction room, with a live auctioneer, despite running and closing exclusively online. They are quickly becoming a cornerstone of the firm's selling venuespopular with consignors and bidders alike.
Stack's Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce the results of their recently completed Official Auction of the 2020 N.Y.I.N.C.a sale comprising six different sessions spread out between live and online venues and containing over 3,800 lots of interesting ancient and world coins as well as paper money. These sales attracted spirited bidding and attentive participation, and achieved a sell through rate of nearly 90%. The total prices realized across all sessions was nearly $5.8 million (all prices include the standard buyer's fee).
Stack's Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce Part VI and Part VII of the now legendary D. Brent Pogue Collection. The Pogue Collection will forever be known as an incredible assembly of the very finest early American coins from 1792 through the 1830s. The five sales already completed featured this portion of the collection, almost to completion, with notable additions such as the fabulous collection of $3 gold coins. Those apparent outliers were a foreshadowing of the upcoming sale scheduled for March 18-20, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Stack's Bowers Galleries is proud to continue their tradition of presenting world-class rarities at auction by featuring 1884 and 1885 Proof trade dollars in their March 18-20, 2020 Baltimore Auction.
Numismatic auction powerhouse Stack's Bowers Galleries is presenting for sale a beautifully-minted and ultra-rare 1911 Chinese Silver Long-Whisker Dragon Dollar at the New York International Numismatic Convention on January 17, 2020.
This important rarity will be presented in lot 20246 of Stack's Bowers' World and Ancient Coin Auction, in Session One of the two-day event to be held at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. This 1911 Chinese dollar, created at the Central Chinese Mint in Tientsin, features an extremely rare pattern and is the single finest certified of the type at either the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation or Professional Coin Grading Service.
