1933 Saint-Gaudens Shatters Rare Coin Record The famed 1933 Saint-Gaudens $20 gold piece seized in 1996 by the U.S. Secret Service and once owned by King Farouk of Egypt has captured a staggering $7.59 million at auction. That’s the highest price ever paid for a numismatic coin and the second highest price for a numismatic […]

Only the second known Parsons & Co. monetary ingot sold for an undisclosed six-figure sum at the recent ANA Convention in New York City. The only known specimen prior to this piece has rested in the National Collection at the Smithsonian Institute since 1968. The pedigree of the tiny one ounce $20 face value specimen […]

Ten million dollars in gold recovered from the SS Central America, and on loan from Monaco Financial, will be on display from now through May 2003 in a spectacular traveling exhibit hosted by the Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. The historical gold coins and bars in the exhibit were all a part of what LIFE […]

Contributed by Bob Evans, Curator of the Treasure of the SS Central America Three of the seven gold assayer ingots selected for use in the Forty-Niner “Horseman” Commemorative Coin program provided valuable samples for cutting-edge research into the nature of the ingots themselves. For our detailed chemical analysis of the gold, my colleagues and I […]

The Bar Has Been Raised I recently had a collector in my office and watched a tear roll down his cheek when he held his SS Central America Justh & Hunter ingot for the first time. He looked up and said, “My ancestors came to California during the Gold Rush seeking their fortune.” This gentleman […]

The Dallas Bank Collection came to the market in mid-November in the busy eastside of downtown Manhattan. The Dallas Bank Collection was assembled throughout the 1970’s by a Texas oilman named Jeff Browning. This collection had resided in a Dallas Bank vault for nearly three decades before being brought to the market amidst extreme excitement […]