Heritage's January Platinum Night offered 131 coins, leading with a PCGS MS-63 1893-S Morgan dollar and including an1881-S dollar from the David T. Miller Collection of DMPL Morgan dollars.
The U.S. Mint experimented with aluminum pattern coins in the 1870s, including this 1879 goloid metric dollar graded PCGS Proof 69 that it realized $33,600 in Heritage's Platinum Night sale Jan. 11.
Buyers looking for Proof coins from the second half of the 19th century will be checking lots being offered by Heritage Auctions in the post-Long Beach sale in Dallas Feb. 8-10.
The U.S. Mint's first mintage of half cents was in 1793, and an example graded About Uncirculated 55 by PCGS brought $52,800 in Heritage's sale at the Florida United Numismatists show.
Heritage and Early Cents Auctions’ Jan. 4 offering of large cents from the collection of Walter J. Husak and the Liberty Cap Foundation realized $6,845,461 at the FUN convention in Orlando.