Category Archives: News
PURE CALIFORNIA GOLD HUMBERT COMMEMORATIVE
Augustus Humbert was the United States Assayer of San Francisco in 1851 and 1852. His [...]
May
FIRST UNITED STATES COIN
The Fugio Cent was the first Congressionally authorized coin to be minted by our young [...]
Mar
1809/8 CAPPED BUST $5 NGC MS64
A pristine and original specimen of this controversial overdate. Harry Bass owned two examples of [...]
MS65 HUMBERT REEDED EDGE $50 GOLD INGOT SELLS FOR $600,000!
The Augustus Humbert $50 gold ingots, as they were legally termed (known today as “slugs”), [...]
Sep
A WESTERN ASSAYER OF THE MARK TWAIN PERIOD
Conrad Wiegand was a boisterous man who was born in Philadelphia, worked for the US [...]
Sep
KELLOGG $50 GOLD PIECE: A NUMISMATIC CLASSIC
In 1855, a few splendid $50 gold coins were minted by Kellogg & Co. using [...]
IT’S SLABBED, SO IT’S OK . . . RIGHT?
No…Absolutely NOT! With the market Red-Hot, we are getting way too many phone calls from [...]
SSCA GOLD EUREKA BAR SETS $8 MILLION RECORD
The largest known transaction for a numismatic item recently shattered the previous $4.1 million record [...]