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Costa Mesa · Costa MesaOver 200 U.S. Gold and Silver Coins Valued at $20,000,000, Including Multiple Individual Pieces Valued over $1 Million Each. Stack’s Bowers Galleries is honored to announce the sale of selections from the James A. Stack, Sr. Collection. Projected to bring upwards of $20 million, the over 200 coins to be offered from the collection have been off the market since at least his passing in 1951. Several individual pieces are valued at over $1 million…See the Story
Stack’s Bowers Galleries Announces Auctions of the James A. Stack, Sr. Collection

Concord, New Hampshire · Concord2010-P Franklin Pierce Presidential Dollar. Image: United States Mint / CoinWeek. By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …. The 2010-P Franklin Pierce Presidential Dollar is a one-dollar coin struck at the Philadelphia Mint as part of the Presidential Dollar series. Congress intended to release these designs honoring America’s past Presidents to engage the American public with the nation’s history and reinvigorate the flagging go…Read Article
2010-P Franklin Pierce Presidential $1 Coin : A Collector’s Guide

Gela · GelaBy Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. Founded by colonists from Rhodes and Crete in 698 BCE, Gela, a city on Sicily’s southern coast, took its name from a nearby river. The city prospered, beginning to issue its silver coinage around 490 BCE. Among the Greek cities of Sicily and southern Italy in the fifth century BCE, coin die engraving achieved an artistic excellence unmatched until the 18th century in Europe, and Gela quickly became a leader in …Read Article