The most expensive coin collection ever assembled numbers 15,000 coins—it’s so large and historically thorough that it’s being sold in a series of 15 auctions set to spread out over three years.

Obverse Image: Bust of Ulysses S. Grant in center. Obverse Text: 50 / GOLD CERTIFICATE / ACT OF JULY 12, 1882. / FIFTY DOLLARS / CANCELED / A99957 / SERIES OF 1913. / GRANT / WASHINGTON, D.C. / THIS ...

Obverse Image: Portrait of Silas Wright. Obverse Text: GOLD CERTIFICATE / 50 / THIS CERTIFIES THAT FIFTY DOLLARS OF GOLD COIN HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES. THAT SUM IS ...

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Most rare coins experts expect these to become the most valuable modern coins ever sold, Stack's Bowers Galleries claimed. The mission, STS-93, most prominently helped deploy the Chandra X-Ray ...

With the run-up continuing in precious metals, let's circle back to the topic of gold. Over the past year, gold has increased in price more than 60%, hitting never-before-seen levels, and is currently ...

An anonymous donor dropped a rare gold coin from 1898 into a Salvation Army kettle at Lancaster Central Market over the weekend, according to organization officials. Peter Keny, the operations manager ...