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Stacks Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce the November 2024 Showcase Auction of U.S. Currency. Featuring over 400 lots, the sale draws together a diverse offering of bank notes, from iconic rarities to historic items that reflect pivotal times in American history.

More than 60 years in the making, the famous collection of Rhode Island numismatist Richard August will be offered by Stacks Bowers Galleries in a series of auctions in 2025 and 2026. Known to his friends as Dick, August was a towering figure within the close-knit community of early American coin and medal enthusiasts. He was a pioneer in the fields of Betts medals and colonial paper money and an exacting builder of variety sets of most major pre-Federal copper series. Beginning decades ago, Dick was an early adopter of collecting colonial-era coins from Europes New World empires alongside coins more explicitly made for America. He came to focus on these coins with as much vigor as on their Redbook-listed counterparts, amassing important collections of coins from Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and the West Indies. Selections from Augusts incredibly choice collections of coins from England, Ireland, and Scotland will be the first coins from the cabinet to be offered, slated for our January 2025 New York International Numismatic Convention sale.

Stacks Bowers Galleries, one of the world's largest and most prestigious numismatic auction firms, proudly announces the November 2024 Rarities Night Auction. Held in conjunction with this years Whitman Winter Expo, the November 19 Rarities Night Session will offer the opportunity for collectors to acquire fabled, long off the market rarities. Featured in the sale is a particularly extensive and robust selection of gold coins from numerous named collections. Coins from the collections of Robert D. Reed, Bernard Richards, and Darrel Overton Neidigh, Jr, comprise a key portion of the 301-lot session, with additional pieces from these cabinets found elsewhere in the firms November Auction.

Stacks Bowers Galleries is proud to announce The Zurich Sale of Ancient and World Coins, to be held alongside Part II of the L. E. Bruun Collection on March 13-16, 2025, at the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, Switzerland.

Stacks Bowers Galleries is proud to announce the auction of Part II of the famed L. E. Bruun Collection, the worlds finest private collection of Scandinavian coinage, which has been insured for 500 million Danish kroner (about US$72.5 million). The auction will be held March 13-16, 2025, at the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, Switzerland.

Stacks Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce that a truly sensational collection of gold dollars, off the market for a century or more, will be offered in the November 2024 Showcase Auction. Designated the Chapman Set, this long hidden collection includes many items pedigreed to historic auctions presented by Henry and S.H. Chapman from 1903 through 1916. The discovery of these coins was announced recently in Coin World and featured in advertisements from Matador Rare Coins. They were submitted for grading at PCGS and will create quite a stir in the numismatic marketplace when they cross the auction block.

Stacks Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce the upcoming sale of the Darrel Overton Neidigh, Jr. Collection as part of the firms November 2024 Showcase Auction. Assembled five decades ago, the Neidigh Collection offers ultra rare and important coins, some of which are entering the numismatic marketplace for the first time.

Stack's Bowers Galleries, an industry leading firm in the world paper money field, is excited to announce that it sold nearly $2.5 million in world banknotes during its much-anticipated Maastricht Auction, held alongside the MIF Paper Money Fair. This auction showcased an exceptionally diverse and extensive selection of world paper money, featuring numerous highlights and rare items from across the globe.

Stacks Bowers Galleries will again make history as gold rarities from the Bernard Richards Collection cross the auction block in the Rarities Night session of the November 2024 Showcase Auction. As the Official Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo, the firms sale will be held November 18-22 in Costa Mesa, California, with lot viewing available at the Whitman Winter Expo November 12-15.