Current Auction Highlights

The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #627 - Ten different Morgan dollars
Silver Dollar-Morgan
101st Airborne Collection. Lowball collecting has become a thing in recent years as the cost of high-grade better-date silver dollars goes through the roof. Most of these are better dates, listed with estimated [cataloger grades] as follows: 1878-CC (Good, superbly original, 1878-S (VG/ancient cleaning has recovered gunmetal hue), 1888-O VAM-4 "hot lips" (Good, interesting Kraft envelope toning pattern), 1890-CC (Fine/old PVC conserved), 1893-CC (VG/dipped surface has recovered some color), 1894-O (Good/strangely colored), 1899-O (Good, outstanding and unusually strong album color), 1900-O (Fine, darker ashy grey), 1903-S (VF/cleaned with sharpness somewhat close to XF), and 1923-D (VF, modest album tone). Ten coin lot.

Upcoming Auction Highlights

The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #63 - Mexico - Four Spanish Colony 8 reales, three chopmarked
Hammer: $1,300
World Coins-Mexico
This is a fantastic foursome of Mexican 8 Reales silver coins that each offer Extra Fine to Almost Uncirculated surfaces with three examples displaying various degrees of chop-marks. The three chop-marked examples includes a 1737 (XF+ details), a 1741 (AU details), and a 1758 (XF details). A lone un-chopped issue is a lovely 1740 that is a nice and attractive AU example (ck).

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #73 - 18K Diamond and Sapphire Ring
Hammer: $6,000
Jewelry-Rings
Princess Diana’s legacy lives on in rings just like this! There is a 6.29 ct. oval heat-treated Thai sapphire measuring 11.3x9.97x6.51mm in the center of a flowery halo with a radiating royal blue color that is highlighted perfectly with 11 round brilliant diamonds weighing an estimated 1.20 cttw, VS clarity, I color. The ring is marked 90% on the inside and holds up to the 18K acid test. Ring size 6.5, 5.3 dwt.