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World Top 5 most expensive coins 2017

These are World Top 5 Most Expensive Coins in 2017 purchased by winning bidders in auction and the auction companies that sold them. For your information, none of this coins make it to Top 7 World Most Expensive Coins.

Most Expensive

The World most expensive coins sold in auction still a 1794 silver dollar sold for USD$10,016,875 (including the buyer's commission) on 24 January 2013 in Stack’s Bowers Cardinal Collection auction.

WORLD TOP 5 MOST EXPENSIVE COINS IN 2017

No.5: Brand 1793 Liberty Cap Cent. Sheldon-13

1793 Liberty Cap

One of the finest examples of the 1793 Liberty Cap cent sold for US$940,000 on 31 March 2017 during Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ auction of the D. Brent Pogue Collection. The Legendary Mickley-Sheldon-Husak 1793 Sheldon-13 graded AU58BN by PCGS beautifully showcases Joseph Wright's elegant and distinctive portrait bust.


No.4: 1861 Original Confederate States of America Half Dollar

1861 Half Dollar

The Newman / Newcomer / Green 1861 Original Confederate States of America Half Dollar sold for US$960,000 on 1st November 2017 during Eric P. Newman Collection Part IX US Coins Signature Auction by Heritage Auctions. The 1861 Original Confederate half dollar is one of the rarest and most enigmatic issues in the history of American coinage. Only four coins were struck in the early days of the Civil War, and they remain the only coins specifically designed and produced by the Confederate States of America.


No.3: Missouri Cabinet 1811 Classic Head Half Cent

1811 Classic Head

The 1811 Classic Head (Cohen-1), graded PCGS MS66RB and the finest graded for this variety sold for US$998,750 on 31 March 2017 during Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ auction of the D. Brent Pogue Collection. The “Missouri Cabinet Collection” is the current and all time finest United States Half Cent collection in the PCGS Set Registry.


No.2: Lord St. Oswald-Norweb 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar

1794 Dollar

Number 2 in the list is a Lord St. Oswald-Norweb 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar, graded MS-64 by PCGS and awarded a green sticker by CAC sold for US$2,850,000 at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries 2017 ANA World’s Fair of Money Auction on 1st August 2017. The most famous examples of America’s first silver dollar was offered at public auction for the first time in nearly three decades.


No.1: Dexter specimen 1804 Draped Bust silver dollar from the D. Brent Pogue Collection.

1804 dollar

Top on the list is the Dexter specimen of the 1804 Draped Bust silver dollar, from the D. Brent Pogue Collection, graded PR65 by PCGS. The highlight of the Pogue V auction sold for US$3,290,000 on 31 March 2017 during Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ auction of the D. Brent Pogue Collection.

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