What's the most valuable coin ...

ManyQs

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theboz11

I'd have to check, but I think the 1933 $20 Saint holds the record. Now its vakue may have changed with the discovery of more. Things change, so the question really needs more bounds. New ship wreck discoveries and
and museum pieces may hit the market on any given day and completely change this answer

ManyQs

<< <i>I'd have to check, but I think the 1933 $20 Saint holds the record. Now its vakue may have changed with the discovery of more. Things change, so the question really needs more bounds. New ship wreck discoveries and
and museum pieces may hit the market on any given day and completely change this answer >>



For some reason the question never came to mind before. Thank you for your response, boz. Just looked at an article about it and 7.59 million dollars is a lot of money. Are you serious that there may actually be another of more value sometime in the future? I mean, that's a lot of money for one coin. But I guess you're right, one never knows.


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SYRACUSIAN

There's a lot of ultra rarities held in museums that will never be available for sale, some of them unique or nearly so as well. The 1933 double eagle realized this amount under very special circumstances and hype, if the mini hoard that was recently given to the authorities gets clearance for sale to the public, I believe its value will drop dramatically.

There's valuable and there's expensive. If I had the means, the permit and could locate a gem Syracusian decadrachm, I wouldn't trade it for half a dozen ultra rare double eagles, wether 1933 or Ex. H.Relief, whatever suits you best. It's all a question of personal taste I believe.Valuable to you might be nothing to me and vice versa. In terms of numbers though, the 1933 double eagle set an unprecedented record, with 1804 dollars and other US rarities trailing long behind.

ajaan

Very good point. Value and rarity are not always a linear relationship.

rhound1977

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The one I have not sold yet...

wybrit

The 1954 British penny (the genuine article one, not the bloomin' copies for sale on ebay) is among the rarest of all coins, with only 1 thought to be known outside the British Museum. Its value is only comparable to that of "scarce" American coins.

SYRACUSIAN

Wybrit, that would surprise me, the prices of US rarities compared to any other country are in multiple numbers. Look at the price of that recent gold medieval find or the price recently set as an all time record for any South American coin. The Greek record stands at $150000 for a pair of silver 1915 patterns, but let's not forget that ancient coin collecting is not allowed.

The hobby has a much deeper and better organized structure in the US than anywhere else, it's practically part of the American heritage in my eyes. English are famous for their collecting tradition too, but ,to my knowledge, they're nowhere near this financial level:

Great Numismatic Rarities in Private Sale

A private collector, who is building one of the finest type sets of United States coins ever assembled, purchased two important numismatic rarities recently for over $5 million. The two coins were a 1907 Ultra High Relief $20 Lettered Edge, PR69 PCGS, and a 1796 No Stars Quarter Eagle, MS65 PCGS.

The two coins are the finest graded by either of the two major services (NGC and PCGS), the Ultra High Relief being the only PR69 and the 1796 No Stars quarter eagle the only MS65. Heritage Auction Galleries sold the coins for $3,350,000 and $1,725,000, respectively.

Interestingly, both coins had been sold at auction just last year. The Ultra High had realized $2.99 million in Heritage's November 2005 Signature auction, and the 1796 $2.50 had sold in American Numismatic Rarities' July, 2005 New York auction for $1,380,000. And Jim Halperin, bidding for Heritage, had underbid the second coin at $1,322,500. We sold both coins to our client on behalf of their two purchasers.


This is gonna be some set, a bit higher than the average Dansco 7070.

GDJMSP

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If it ever sells this one will be - 1000 mohur

MacCrimmon

<< <i>and a 1796 No Stars Quarter Eagle, MS65 PCGS. >>



....piffle.

I have a 1796 No Stars Q.E. which would grade at least MS68, maybe MS69 . . . .


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it says "COPY" on the reverse. Gallery Mint.

Steve27

"...if the mini hoard that was recently given to the authorities gets clearance for sale to the public, I believe its value will drop dramatically."

That's a mighty big "if," since the US Gov basically guaranteed that no other 1933 Saints would be monetized (I expect that the others which came to light recently will either be added to the Smithsonian collection or will be melted).

Conder101

GDJMSP has the current right answer because that 1000 mohur holds the record for the highest amount ever bid on a coin at auction. Considerably more than was bid for the 1933 double eagle. When the 1000 mohur was put up for sale it garnished a bid of eight million dollars which after the juice would have been $8,800,000. A million dollars more than the 1933. Problem was the consignor had a reserve of ten million on the coin so it didn't sell.

RELLA

J-1776.

RELLA

IlikeZARcoins

Interesting story...........that Farouk guy had some coins ( he also owned the ZAR Single 9 ) !

JZrarities

I would have to guess that the EID MAR AUREUS (only 2 known) would rank up there as the most expensive.

One was supposedly auctioned by Numismatic Fine Arts years ago (I have the catalog somewhere) and if auctioned today might put a $20 Saint to shame.