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Anchored by multiple specialized collections, ancient and world coins realized over $11,668,000 in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries August 2024 Global Showcase Auction. With live and online sessions spanning nearly two weeks from August 12-23, the 5,000+ lots of ancient and world coins held great appeal for collectors of any budget and encompassed a wide range of interests. (All prices include the buyer’s fee.)

For more than nine decades, Stack’s Bowers Galleries has achieved worldwide acclaim for its presentations of rare coins, medals, tokens, and other numismatic issues. Continuing the firm’s impressive legacy, the August 2024 Global Showcase Auction produced spectacular results for its consignors, garnering worldwide attention from numismatic enthusiasts on its way to nearly $50 million in total prices realized. (All prices include the buyer’s fee.)

PCGS recently graded the only privately held 1652 New England Threepence, the rarest American colonial coin known. PCGS graded the specimen XF45 after its recent discovery, making it only the second extant example. The other example is in the custody of the Massachusetts Historical Society; another specimen was discovered to be missing from Yale University’s Collection close to a century ago and has not been accounted for since.

On August 13, 2024, Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ long-anticipated Global Showcase Rarities Night session drew record bids from collectors around the world as it realized a total of over $19 million! Specialists in United States coins vied for the rarest and finest coins crossing the block as part of the firm’s August auction, presented as an event auctioneer partner for the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money, the largest numismatic convention of the year.