![]() ![]() Around 100 of these dollars remain in circulation among collectors. ![]() “Now that my early American dollars collection is complete and nothing else can be added, I’ve decided it’s time for other collectors to enjoy these magnificent coins.”ĭouglas Mudd, director of the Colorado-based American Numismatic Association’s Money Museum, tells the AP that the coin is one of just 300 surviving specimens from a cache of 1,758 silver dollars struck in a single day-October 15, 1794-at the U.S. “Coins are in my blood, and the 1794 dollar was a lifelong dream,” says Morelan in a statement. The sale marked the highest price ever paid at auction for a single coin. Las Vegas resident Bruce Morelan purchased the coin, known to collectors as a “ Flowing Hair” silver dollar, for $10,016,875 in 2013. “This coin is the Holy Grail of all dollars,” Laura Sperber, president of Legend Numismatics, which is conducting the October 8 sale, tells David P. The Liberty Head nickel is one of only five in existence.Įarlier this year, a small $5 gold coin produced by the San Francisco Mint during the height of the California Gold Rush was estimated to be worth “ millions of dollars.” The coin’s owner had initially thought that the money was fake.The most valuable coin in the world is set to go on auction in Las Vegas-and experts say it could fetch upward of $10 million, reports Ken Ritter for the Associated Press.ĭated to 1794, the rare silver dollar is thought to be one of the first, if not the very first, coins minted in the newly independent United States of America. In 2015, another Birch cent sold for almost $1.2 million at auction, the Guardian reports.Ī 1913 Liberty Head nickel was recently auctioned by Stack’s Bowers Galleries for $4.56 million. The coins were seen firsthand by Jefferson and George Washington, according to Stack’s Bowers. The coin is estimated to be worth $1 million.Ĭommissioned by Thomas Jefferson, only a handful of Birch Cents were minted as an example of what the newly formed US government was considering producing. One of the very first pennies produced in the US, a 1792 Birch Cent, will be auctioned at the Whitman Expo on Friday. When it was last sold, in 2005, the note became the first ever paper bill to break the $1 million mark. “This is one of only three known to exist in private collections and the finest example of its kind.” “The Grand Watermelon note is one of the rarest and most sought-after pieces of American paper currency,” said Stack’s Bowers President Brian Kendrella, in a statement. Only seven “Grand Watermelon” notes are known to exist. Major General George Meade, the commander of Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, is shown on the bill’s face. The 1890 Treasury Note is dubbed the “Grand Watermelon” on account of the large green zeros on the back of the bill. ![]() Mystery of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy with 'magical' tattoos solvedĪn extremely rare $1,000 bill described as the “Holy Grail of paper money” has been sold at auction for just over $2 million.Īuction house Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold the unusual bill for $2.04 million on Thursday evening at the 2018 Winter Whitman Expo in Baltimore. Oldest weapons ever discovered in North America uncovered in Texas Pre-Revolutionary War newspaper turns up at New Jersey Goodwill ![]()
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