Most Expensive Rare Gold Coins

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Most expensive rare gold coins.

Earlier this year an ordinary looking penny made headlines when it was found among the. Most of the coins on the market today are in extremely fine to about uncirculated condition. Most pennies are worth 1 cent but to coin collectors some are worth more than their weight in gold. Brent pogue coin collection auction jointly by stack s bowers galleries and sotheby s over the span.

Gold rush collection bonhams sep 2013 1 035 000 1894 10c united states. In 1920 gold coins widely circulated and were regularly used in commerce. Edward iii florin 1343 6 8. The coin was minted in 1850 though it bears the year 1849.

Here are five of the most valuable coins that have been sold at auction and it may surprise you to learn how much someone was willing to pay to own such a small metallic object. Stack s bowers galleries and sotheby s once again the king of american coins takes one of the top 10 spots on the list of the world s rarest and most valuable coins this coin was auctioned as part of the d. Coming in at number seven on our list of the most expensive coins in the world is the silver dollar class 1 1804. As of now our database consists almost entirely of coins from 1880s 2020 as we wanted to focus mostly on coins that were readily accessible and possibly still in circulation.

Therefore it is not surprising that the san francisco mint produced 126 500 ten dollar gold eagle coins that year. With only one specimen existing this coin is probably the rarest and most valuable coin in u s. This most valuable coin list is dynamic and is based upon the few thousand or so united states coins found in our ever growing database updated. If this is the case the coin becomes highly collectible and collectors are willing to pay huge sums of money to own the rare coins.

Most of these are auction prices. This list and the prices are current as of 2020. Selling for 4 1 million dollars in august 1999 the specimen of the king of u s coins is the worlds best known example of an 1804 silver dollar. The following list is a chart of the most expensive coins.

Albanese rare coins private transaction october 2007 5 000 000 1913 1913 liberty head nickel. Estimated coin prices and values in. March 31 2017 sold by. This list does not include the modern post 1986 gold bullion coins.

Its production coincided with the beginning of the california gold rush. We are using our database of nearly every us coin ever produced 6 000 coins based on year rarity mint mark major varieties errors and their associated price values to come up with a.