![]() “The numismatic field has long been popular,” said Kevin Foley, an executive with the NY International Numismatic Convention, an annual event that’s currently running in the city. Others will picture Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren, Anna May Wong and Sally Ride. Mint has begun shipping quarters featuring poet Maya Angelou (lower right). Kendrella said that interest in coins is coming from everywhere, be it new collectors or those “who have been dormant and are joining the market again.” He also says his company has been behind some significant sales in recent years, including a $4 million-plus one for a 1913 Liberty Head U.S. Brian Kendrella, president of Stack’s Bowers Galleries, one of the most prominent dealers in the U.S., says his sales surged by 100% in 2021. Private dealers also report that business has been brisk. “Since then, the prices realized for high-grade rarities…have been at highs never before seen, or even dreamed of,” he said. coin, billed as the “holy grail of coins,” sold for $18.9 million at Sotheby’s, with the auction house saying the price nearly doubled the world-record mark for a coin.ĭavid Tripp, a special coin consultant to Sotheby’s, told MarketWatch that the Double Eagle sale “seems to have acted as catalyst” for the industry. Indeed, in 2021, a 1933 Double Eagle gold U.S. ![]() ![]() By many accounts, the coin (or numismatic) market has seen tremendous growth since the start of the pandemic, both in terms of number of sales and in the prices for sought-after items.
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