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24 08, 2018

Joel. R. Anderson Collection of United States Currency Auction Realizes Nearly $10 Million in 2nd Sale

By |2018-08-24T22:16:13+00:00August 24th, 2018|Coin Shop Blog|Comments Off on Joel. R. Anderson Collection of United States Currency Auction Realizes Nearly $10 Million in 2nd Sale

Stack's Bowers Galleries' August 16 offering of Part II of the Joel R. Anderson Collection of United States Paper Money in Philadelphia, achieved nearly $10 million as a room full of enthusiasts vied with online bidders to take home unique, extremely rare and finest-known pieces, as well as type notes in incredible condition. In all, the 70 lots realized $9,652,860, with two notes bringing over $1 million each and well over a quarter of the lots crossing the $100,000 mark. Lot 2021, an 1861 $50 Interest Bearing note (Fr. 202a), the only collectible example of the series and an incredible [...]

11 07, 2018

John E. Herzog Collection of United States Loan Certificates To be Auction at 2018 World’s Fair of Money

By |2018-07-11T22:13:10+00:00July 11th, 2018|Coin Shop Blog|Comments Off on John E. Herzog Collection of United States Loan Certificates To be Auction at 2018 World’s Fair of Money

It is not often that a museum-caliber collection comes to auction that was formed over five decades by the founder of a museum. John Herzog is well known in the numismatic community through his charitable pursuits and on Wall Street as the founder of the Museum of American Finance. Mr. Herzog's career as a stockbroker trading over the counter on the NASDAQ helped establish it as a leading global exchange. Mr. Herzog's passion for financial history and the development of the capital markets in America from under the Buttonwood Tree onward evolved into his devoted interest in the documents and [...]