GreatCollections, the official auctioneer of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), will be displaying America’s first Silver Dollar – officially the world’s second most valuable coin – as part of a $30 million group of trophy coins and banknotes at booth 201.
$30 Million display by GreatCollections
Two years ago, the 1794 Dollar was acquired by GreatCollections for a record $12 million from Las Vegas collector Bruce Morelan. It was the first coin to break the $10 million mark when it was sold at a 2013 auction and is widely believed to be the very first Silver Dollar struck by the U.S. Mint.
Other rarities on display include the 1861 Gold Double Eagle with Paquet Reverse, the finest of just two known examples, which is valued at over $8.5 million, as well as a superb Proof 1869 Gold Double Eagle, the finest of the dozen known.
Paper money collectors will love seeing the display of the Coronado Collection of Red Seal #1 National Banknotes – the most extensive ever formed.
The 73 notes from 48 different states will be auctioned by GreatCollections in late August through January 2025.
"The owners of the 1794 Silver Dollar and 1861 Paquet Double Eagle have graciously allowed us to display their museum-quality trophy coins and notes so they can be enjoyed by as many collectors as possible – and it’s our pleasure to facilitate – Over the past few years, we have displayed about $200 million of major rarities at conventions," said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections.
Additional information about the special highlights on display:
1794 Silver Dollar PCGS SP-66 CAC
- Purchased by GreatCollections for $12 million in 2022, world’s second most valuable coin (1933 Double Eagle realized $18.9 million in 2021)
- Believed to be the very first Silver Dollar struck by the U.S. Mint
- Out of the original 1,758 struck, about 140 are known to have survived in all grades
1861 Gold Double Eagle Paquet Reverse PCGS MS-67 CAC
- Currently valued at $8.5 million
- The finest of only two examples known
1869 Gold Double Eagle PCGS Proof-66+ DCAM CAC
- The finest of about a dozen known
- Proof Gold is one of the strongest areas of numismatics
Coronado Collection of Red Seal National Banknotes – All Serial #1
- The most extensive and valuable collection of Red Seal National Banknotes to be offered for sale
- 48 different states, with 25 duplicates
- Many "trophy notes" including Fairbanks, Alaska; Nogales, Territory of Arizona; Leadville, Colorado; Ocala, Florida; American Falls, Idaho and Roswell, Territory of New Mexico
- Will be auctioned by GreatCollections over five months starting in August 2024
The ANA’s World’s Fair of Money® will be held from August 6-10, 2024, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont (Chicago), IL. Visitors can view these iconic pieces of U.S. history at GreatCollections’ table #201 along with other auction highlights.
About GreatCollections
GreatCollections, the official auction house of the American Numismatic Association, specializes in auctioning certified coins and banknotes, handling transactions from start to finish. Since its founding in 2010, GreatCollections has successfully auctioned over 1.5 million certified coins, making it one of the leading certified coin companies in the United States with annual sales in 2023 exceeding $210 million. Ian Russell, owner/president of GreatCollections, is a member of the prestigious Professional Numismatists Guild, member of the National Auctioneers Association and was recently named the ANA Harry J. Forman Dealer of the Year. For more information about GreatCollections, visit www.greatcollections.com or call 800-442-6467.
I’ll be happy to take them all…into special places in the coin gallery of my mind.
They are a bit too rich for my blood. $12 million for a silver dollar…and I thought the mints pricing for the current silver dollars is insane. Glad these specimens are being preserved by the wealthy. I do love that classic heraldic eagle design
on the gold coin a lot better than the ‘fierce’ head we currently have.
Craig,
You absolutely nailed it with this exceptionally astute and incisive observation:
“Glad these specimens are being preserved by the wealthy.”
Architecture, Art, Education, Industry, Literature and Science and many other of humankind’s most significant disciplines owe their origins, continued existence and peak achievements to the support and sponsorship of those with the means.
And there you have it JQC, AKBob, All, The Flowing Hair in all of its Glory. The First Flowing Hair Silver Dollar pictured above and below link. Love that solid Silver Plug, right in the middle.The only Dollar of that year to have the plug, added to the planchet to meet weight specs. Great coin. Also the first identified coin as having an (SP) “Burnished” planchet.. If the new Mint copycat coins use some of the old time distressing, crude Minting characteristics. Cool. They won’t because the characteristics would be repetitive, but still… Check out the comments at the bottom… Read more »
Rick,
There are two aspects of the 2026 “Silver Companion Medals Program” that are especially disappointing to me. The first is not all that surprising; the Mint has no authorization to produce silver coins of its own volition (requires a Congressional mandate) so it is compelled to make these as silver medals instead. Second, I had been subject to the woeful misunderstanding that these medals would look at least somewhat like the old coins they are designed to be honoring, but as can be seen from the proposed options that is not at all going to be the case.
Nice IMO, to know I won’t be suffering from any FOMO for the 250th Year Anniversary coins that will be issued. I’m not a fan of any of the proposed designs. Yeah, some are less or more appealing than others, however none of these are what I’d envisioned, they might possibly be able to render. “CCAC Meeting Images for the 2026 Semiquincentennial Coin Program” Link below to the USM CCAC meeting, images page. https://www.usmint.gov/news/ccac-meetings Oh well, at least I know, I’ll no longer be, being gouged by US Mint pricing, since by or before then, prices will assuredly be raised… Read more »
CaliSkier,
The quality of those proposed designs is literally all over the place, likely to a greater extent than I can recall any such array of proposals ever having been before. While some might just make a passable silver medal image there are indeed others so totally bizarre as to make one wonder how on earth they even made the cut.
Oh my Cali, those future coin designs are terrible. What are they thinking regarding the US Marines? They already did a a coin showing the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. Stop it already with the same designs. Nothing to look forward to from the mint. I may look to the Royal mint for something good or just focus on old coins.
East Coast Guru,
On some level it’s beginning to seem as if the Mint has gotten tired of turning its back to us and now wants to slap us right in our cumulative faces instead.
Oh Cali, those designs are so horrible I can’t even best describe just how awful they are! Talk about Gaudy! You weren’t exaggerating at all! I am in the corner with everyone disappointed in the Mint producing gold coins and silver medals! The silver folks deserve coins, who wants a medal? I don’t usually, now and then I’ve purchased a medal but it had to be for a good reason. I wish the Mint didn’t have to have “permission” to produce silver coins. I’m surprised that it’s not the other way around. You’d think the Mint would need Congressional approval… Read more »
AKBob,
Au is now over $2400/oz. Is $4000 for an ounce Au coin coming soon? They’ve already priced me out, not because I can’t afford $3200, but because I’m not paying those idiots $900 in premium costs to press one. The good news is there are plenty of classic gold and silver coins available for our purchasing dollars(and with much better designs).
Craig and AKBob,
Doesn’t it seem more than a little ironic that the same government that once not only made owning gold illegal but additionally confiscated all the gold in the hands of its citizens is now essentially forcing this very public to buy gold instead of silver coins thanks to the seemingly contradictory precious metal regulations courtesy of the United States Mint?
Kaiser, who exactly is being forced to buy gold? LOL. Folks here can’t get enough of it!
Major D, I think what Kaiser was trying to say was why is the Govt making collectors buy gold “coins” and silver “medals”, meaning, the medals should be “coins” NOT “medals”. He wasn’t actually saying the Govt is making us buy gold, lol! Collectors want coins NOT medals for the most part. At least that’s what I think Kaiser was getting at! Let me know Kaiser if my assumption is correct. I’m not trying to put words or meanings to your words, just attempting to clarify your comment that could be taken either way. Sorry if I stepped on your… Read more »
AKBob and Major D, It is certainly heartening to know we really do function as such a very eagerly supportive team here on coinnews.net. For example, before I even got around to clarifying to Major D what I had really meant to say with the observation that “the government was forcing people to buy gold”, our mutual friend AKBob dropped in to so fortuitously expand upon, and very exactly and correctly so, the actual and precise intent of my original claim. What that amounts to is that while we all love gold and per se can’t get enough of it,… Read more »
Craig, I hear you and I’m exactly like you, I can afford them even tho I have to save to purchase them but I too don’t want to pay a $1K over spot on gold either. I’m still “in” for the Flowing Hair AND the Gold American Liberty Series coins. I hope I won’t have to stop but it’s clear that golds going up and so too will the Mints gold pricing and I might just have to stop/bail on purchasing them because it got way to ridiculous. It’s only ridiculous now but once it gets “way to ridiculous” I’ll… Read more »
I hear you as well AKBob, There’s many like you in your situation and I’m one of them to a ‘T’ as to how you described your life. Well almost–still working a career I am! If there’s a positive with regards to the ”ridiculous” priced out dilemma on those expensive coins take a look at the L&B Gold coin. 5 months ago yourself & I, Tony & REB, Darek and many others took the plunge. By next week if spot holds out, the price would be $450 higher than when we bought it on day one? That’s half off of… Read more »
Rick and AKBob, I have to say that at 77 with likely not all that many active collecting years remaining (or for that matter possibly years of any sort, gulp) I can call upon the more deeply philosophical viewpoint blessedly bestowed upon us more elderly folk when faced by precisely such situations as you both describe above. Sure, I would like to keep adding to my little numismatic treasure chest “indefinitely” but I am however more than realistic enough to be fully aware of the spectrum of limitations that makes that increasingly ever less viable, and effectively almost so by… Read more »
my doofusy brother bought me a “flowing liberty dollar” from ebay, of course he got an imported steel copy, he knew it wasn’t real but he thought it would be a ‘fun’ present – i had to explain to him that even buying it just for ‘fun’ unfortunately encourages the counterfeiters out there (because it is not marked as a ‘replica’ or down-sized or anything like that). now i gotta figure out how to mark it or destroy it… i could just toss it in the recycle bin, but i can’t be sure someone would pick it out and it… Read more »
Here you go c_q,
A whole roll of semi-precious metal and all of it’s Flowing Hair Finesse!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335487589145
And this one below, specifically for you Major D!
Silver Bullion in it’s Finest form!
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XRwAAOSwgGFkNsi~/s-l1600.webp
Now if that just had a plug in it, Rick, it would more than likely be priceless.
I like it!
I’ll have you know, Rick, this is the Number One recommended choice of coins to purchase in this month’s edition of the Maintenance Engineers Digest!
c_q,
And here I’ve always been under the impression that “it’s the thought that counts”.
c_q, I’d say that sure seems nice of your brother to think of you and give you a gift. I wouldn’t knock it, but instead thank him and put it on the shelf with your trophies.
Agree Major D.
Riddle me this… Since those Liberty and Britannia Silver Medals went up in price and became available again, they have a registered sales total of -267?(7/14/24). Knowing they were in relative high demand, had became available again for over a week now, they have sold a negative amount? What? This tells me and I could be wrong, that they indeed have sold quite a few, however they have also taken back on return, at least 267 more than they sold? Well, well after the date or number of days(7) to return, that the US Mint allots. My guess, is they… Read more »
Bingo, The negative numbers are exactly that–Rejects returned in their OGP coffins, only to be recycled back to the risk taking late-to-the-party “Sticker Price” paying buyers. Not just rejects from large sellers are returned, but the average Joe too(me & Kaiser). I would also argue that not-a-one of those rejects were sent in for grading previously. Those Coins/Medals, Mint sets, even bullion coins from fresh Monster Box rolls are “pre-screened” for the higher/highest grades before ever considered for grading(me again and not alone). It’s not very difficult at all to ID the superior coins. If you’re a picky enough Joe,… Read more »
Rick,
Just when I thought CaliSkier had already supplied any and all possible facts required to illuminate the great mystery of the Mint’s return and re-ship practices here you are with some more extremely excellent ideas and useful tips regarding how best to swim against the prevailing tide and still end up a winner.
CaliSkier,
Anyone who still has any questions, lingering or otherwise, as to exactly how the Mint’s return process for the individual purchaser differs so very markedly from that applied to the Big Buyers would be well advised to read your brilliantly complete not to mention completely brilliant comment as posted above. Everything in a nutshell.
Mint return policy in a pistachio nutshell –
We will take back what we darn well please whenever we darn well please.
DaveSWFL,
It be even more pleasing if the Mint put some added effort into pleasing us!
Kaiser they tried to please you(sneak you)with ‘super fast’ shipping, but as it turned out, ‘not so fast’ was your reaction upon opening up the goods?
Rick,
As that truly odd song goes, “She blinded me with science!”
It was weird, but so catchy just like so many songs from the 80’s. When it came on the radio, we turned it up!
Indeed, Rick, those “one hit wonders” are each in their own way some of the most memorable, i.e. unforgettable tunes of all time!
Got some problem coins. Called the Mint. Got a free return shipping label. Will send back and get a full refund. Problem solved.
Major D,
Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.
If you can’t get a good set directly from the Mint when it’s available, what makes anyone think they’ll get anything better on the secondary market when it becomes unavailable at the Mint?
Something very similar to this fine set linked below.
But only for the very discerning, quality minded, and astute buyers!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/264521786080
Rick,
Let’s throw a spotlight on that and see what appears out of the darkness!
Kaiser, You might check with Major D on that? He has a set nearly identical to that set, if not identical in its entirety, right down to the TPG grade. Perhaps Major forgot that an aftermarket purchase can be fruitful… While that set is poorly lit, the fact that NGC graded it a Gem Proof Set gives one the piece of mind, and a high probability that they will never need to return the set back to the Mint when that set is no longer available. Major D’s recent purchase of that set, with the NGC Approval–Is 100% Rick approved(fwiw)……… Read more »
I’m seeing it now plain as day, a sticker that signifies 100% Rick Approved, one which supersedes even the CAC imprimatur.
Here we go, let’s make it official…….
Yes, thanks for the reminder. I guess there are always exceptions to the rule — except, of course, when: “Everybody plays the fool sometime…. It may be factual it may be cruel.”
✓!
Not to mention “You’ve gotta be cruel to be kind in the right measure.”
Hurts so good.
Major D,
Excellent question and one I would never stop asking. I’ve seen close-up photos of secondary market items and quite often it’s not a pretty sight.
One must not knock it, without giving it a go first, a wise man told me once…
Here’s one of my more satisfying secondary market buys. The coin pictured, is my coin in hand and it’s in my top 3 Kennedy favorites. I’m completely satisfied with my non direct-Mint purchase…
https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/2014-s-50c-enhanced-silver-50th-anniversary-set-dmpl/535117/70
Rick, That is one seriously smokin’ beauty of a Kennedy Half Dollar, and kudos to you for having discovered and acquired it on the secondary market! By the way, it’s not that I’m philosophically or otherwise opposed to making purchases from vendors other than the U.S. Mint itself, it’s simply that I have never had any personal experience with it. As with so many other things one has never done before it’s all too easy to experience more than a little trepidation at the mere thought of engaging in precisely such a transaction. While I am beginning to see all… Read more »
Well Kaiser, it’s never too late to enter a new dimension…
A shopping experience like no other….
Don’t fret, we’ll retrive you on the other side if need be…
Baby Steps Kaiser, Baby Steps……
If the Mint went away tomorrow, would everyone go back to complaining about the weather?
Major, if the US Mint went away tomorrow, I can guarantee 100% for certain, we’d have a hell of a lot more to complain about, besides the weather!
Technically, CaliSkier, we each already have lots more to complain about. Fortunately for the good of the site we have agreed to keep those concerns out.
Kaiser, shhhh, our little secret. Plus as we are well aware, certain birds feathers ruffle at the mere mention/idea of a differing opinion or point of view. Guess variety being the spice of life, doesn’t hold true in some circles. Or does it?
LOL PS I know I wouldn’t be enthralled, at this point rounding up to $1, $2, $5 or $10, that’s for sure! We already get less bang for the buck, and the Mint ceasing to operate would be taking us for sure, closer to a CBDC reality. Not a fan personally.
CaliSkier,
Our little secret it is and as such it shall if all goes according to plan remain. Lets strive to make the mysteries of the one-eyed pyramid of conspiratorial reknown appear to be no less than an open book when compared to the depths of unknowability we have contrived.
Major D,
If the Mint made no mistakes we could always complain about the tedium of perfection.
Let me re-phrase: “Rhetorically speaking, ….”.
Major D, I can see now where I might somehow have slipped off the tracks regarding this topic as soon as I had begun or perhaps even before that early point. I failed to mention that much to my wife’s amusement, chagrin and/or dismay (usually but not aways depending on the quality of the day outside), I literally do not ever voice any opinion as to or in any way even care what the weather is. This is a rather old habit I likely picked up in my original homeland where every summer day was almost guaranteed to regularly present… Read more »
Kaiser, I guess I had the Randy Travis lyrics in mind. You got to talk about something, if not coins, and the weather can be a fickle thing (in which someone, somewhere is always catching hell):
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men