Heritage Calls Official Long Beach Auctions
Heritage Auction Galleries will hold four separate auctions in conjunction with the Long Beach Coin, Stamp and Collectibles Expo Sept. 17-21. Gold coins will highlight the U.S. coin offerings. The other sales will feature world coins, medals, tokens and paper money.
Heritage Auction Galleries will hold four separate auctions in conjunction with the Long Beach Coin, Stamp and Collectibles Expo Sept. 17-21. Gold coins will highlight the U.S. coin offerings. The other sales will feature world coins, medals, tokens and paper money.
A pair of 1879 Flowing Hair $4 gold pieces certified PR-64 Star Cameo and PR-65 Cameo by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation, and a pair of early $5s from the Laredo collection are also significant offerings. Lot 3575 is a 1795 $5 Small Eagle certified NGC MS-62 and
Lot 3587 is an NGC MS-65 1805 $5, Close Date, Breen-6445, BD-2.
Lot 3608 is an 1833 $5 gold piece with large date grading PCGS MS-61, Breen-6498, BD-1. The cataloger says the actual size difference of the digits is just barely noticeable, but the style of the number punches is distinctively different.
Various Saint-Gaudens $20 gold pieces graded by PCGS are also offered including a 1929 certified MS-66, a 1925-S graded AU-58, and a 1924-S graded MS-64.
A pair of 1839-O Capped Bust, reeded edge, proof half dollars will keep seasoned numismatists talking for decades, Greg Rohan, Heritage president, speculated. Typically years pass between auction appearances of this ultra-rarity, he said, pointing out there are just four confirmed examples extant.
“It is just short of miraculous to have two of the four in one auction,” Rohan added. Lot 2163: is an NGC Proof-62 NGC, and Lot 2164 is an NGC Proof-63 example.
Perhaps one of the most interesting lots will be an 1831 quarter eagle gold piece struck on a dime planchet.
“The error ... obviously circulated for decades as a dime with no one noticing the curious reverse,” Rohan said.
The Heritage coin auction features a large number of Registry set collections including the Nora Bailey collection of half cents, the Davis Conway collection of PCGS-certified Lincoln cents and the Nevada collection of Seated quarters, which the firm says is a unique accumulation of two collectors living in two different states who worked together to form a single collection.
For more information on the sale, contact Heritage Auction Galleries, 3500 Maple Ave., 17th Floor, Dallas, Texas 75219-3941. Heritage can also be contacted by phone at 1-800-US-COINS, or through the firm’s Web site at www.ha.com.
