Coins of record refer to proof coins that were struck in the Australian pre-decimal era. They were designed not for collectors, but to record a particular year’s mintage or design. As such, they are excellent quality, with crisp, clear strikes and highly polished fields. And because they ...
Outside of the British Royal MInt, both the Royal Australian Mint and Ottawa Mint produced small runs of the gold sovereign during the earlier part of the 20th century. Struck from 1908 through 1919, the Canadian sovereigns are generally regarded as common, and many can be bought for small ...
The number of 3,041,506 Kennedy half-dollar proofs is pretty average, and those coins don’t stand out compared to other proofs minted in San Francisco in any way. Their regular price is approximately $9.75, while the auction record is $21,600. One collector set aside such a high sum ...
The Coronet Head ten dollar coins are considered to be of amazing value. While there is a wide range of values, you could easily get at least $1,100 for those in “Fine” condition, with many dates and mint marks worth thousands more than that. In “Extremely Fine” condition these ten...
This 1855-S Proof Liberty Seated half dollar is unique on several fronts. First, the mint produced Proof coins for coin collectors mainly at the Philadelphia mint facility. The San Francisco mint facility produced approximately three of these half dollars. Second, a design change during the die ...
In November, an anonymous donor in Fargo, North Dakota, left a 2016 Australian gold kangaroo coin worth nearly $3,000, per theForum. Weeks later, someone slipped four gold coins worth collectively around $6,800 into various Salvation Army kettles around ...
The Australian Kangaroo One Tonne Gold Coinwas made by the Perth Mint in Australia in 2011. After a publicity tour in Europe, the coin is now on permanent display in The Perth Mint’sGold Exhibition. Canada also made extremely large gold coins, mostly for publicity, but they did sell five...
These coins were known to have been minted in only two years, with the 1724 version being the rarest. Almost all the examples known to exist were recovered off the coast of Nova Scotia from the wreck of a ship calledLe Chameau.