Most Expensive Rare Gold Coins

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Most expensive rare gold coins. This list does not include the modern post 1986 gold bullion coins. Albanese rare coins private transaction october 2007 5 000 000 1913 1913 liberty head nickel. Most of these are auction prices. Most valuable coins rarest highest value us coins ever usa coin book has compiled a list of the all time rarest and most valuable us coins ever known.

March 31 2017 sold by. Earlier this year an ordinary looking penny made headlines when it was found among the. The coin was minted in 1850 though it bears the year 1849. Several private sale prices over 2m are not in this list yet.

The following list is a chart of the most expensive coins. 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. Brent pogue coin collection auction jointly by stack s bowers galleries and sotheby s over the span. 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.

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. It is one of the two trial pieces that heralded the era of the 20 coins nicknamed double eagles. With only one specimen existing this coin is probably the rarest and most valuable coin in u s. Gold rush collection bonhams sep 2013 1 035 000 1894 10c united states.

Estimated coin prices and values in. Coming in at number seven on our list of the most expensive coins in the world is the silver dollar class 1 1804. Therefore it is not surprising that the san francisco mint produced 126 500 ten dollar gold eagle coins that year. 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.

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. 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. Most pennies are worth 1 cent but to coin collectors some are worth more than their weight in gold. Our most valuable gold coins list includes the classic gold coins starting in 1795 up until 1933 when america abandoned the gold standard including rare gold coin errors and rare varieties.

Most of the coins on the market today are in extremely fine to about uncirculated condition. This list and the prices are current as of 2020.