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 #729 - 1898 NGC PR-65 CAMEO
Hammer: $2,300
Half Dollars-Barber
16 graded PR-65 CAM, 1 graded PR-65 CAM "star", 41 higher at NGC. Frothy motifs also show swirling die polish lines that blend in nicely with overall texture. Intriguing apricot-gold color melts over most of the surface, offset by a broad, curious aqua-blue lozenge at lower right. Trivia hairlines within the fields must be searched for.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #100 - Opal Bead Necklace, SGL #240827Q-SJ
Hammer: $290
Jewelry-Pendants
This beaded necklace has lovely free form Australian opals, predominately blue and green, with no indications of treatment, Stone Group Laboratories report #240827Q-SJ. Not how you would typically think of opal but a beautiful gathering of the gem nonetheless! Length 19”, 14K clasp Approximately .5 dwt.