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Current Auction Highlights

The Midwest Summer Sale 2025 View Lots
7/18/2025 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #395 - 1834 Classic, Plain 4 PCGS AU-55
Gold $5-Classic Head Half Eagle
McCloskey 4-C (R.4), block 8, plain 4, second head. 1834 marked the year when the mint changed design for the half-eagle, as the intrinsic value of each coin made it profitable (over face value) to melt them down for bullion. 4-C can most quickly be attributed by noticing a die crack that ejects from the top of Liberty's modified portrait. Noticeable flowline texture nearly touching the rims speaks also to later dies.

Upcoming Auction Highlights

The Collectors' Auction 2025 View Lots
11/14/2025 - Marriott St. Louis Airport
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Collection of 67 different Buffalo nickels in a Library of Coins Volume 6 album
Nickels-Buffalo

Previous Auction Highlights

The Collectors' Auction View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #643 - 1886 NGC MS-66
Hammer: $400
Silver Dollar-Morgan
Lemonade Stand Collection. A pretty inverted arc of steely cobalt-blue and russet-orange toning sweeps through the date, balanced by pleasing platinum-tan coloration overall. Two small nicks near the very bottom of the cheek deny an even loftier grade, but the problem-free, vintage surface and excellent strike underscore expectations for the very-gem grade level.

Jewelry & Heirlooms No. 13 View Lots
11/1/2024 - Saint Charles Convention Center
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Lot #213 - 14K Yellow Gold Musician Gemstone Pin
Hammer: $575
Jewelry-Pins
This 14K yellow gold pin depicting a turbaned man playing a lute (stringed instrument) is filled with a myriad of gemstones including a sugar loaf blue sapphire, emerald, pearls and rubies. Dimensions 1.90” x 1”, 7.6 dwt.