The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, made available Series 2009 $10 Uncut Currency Sheets.
Uncut Currency Sheets are "hot off the press" and are a "must-have in any collection and make wonderful gifts for those ‘hard to buy for’ people on your holiday shopping list," the Bureau of Engraving and Printing promotes on its website.
Currency sheet prices vary by the amount of $10 bills. BEP options include a [...]
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) on Wednesday, November 16, released a new $1 Year of the Dragon Note.
The banknote is the latest BEP product within its Lucky Money Collection which features uncirculated notes in denominations that capture the “significance of the numbers ’8888′ and ’168′, as well as the Zodiac celebrated for the specific Lunar Year."
Each of the dollar bills has a serial number beginning with "8888." [...]
On September 14-16, Stack’s Bowers Galleries conducted its annual Americana Sale in Philadelphia as the Official Auctioneer of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Philadelphia Expo.
The sale featured over 4,000 lots of U.S. medals and tokens, colonial and federal U.S. coins, and U.S. paper money, offering something for every U.S. collector. At the end of the auction, $4,480,136 and thousands of numismatic items changed hands [...]
Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach Signature® Currency Auction, held in Long Beach, CA, September 7-9, realized $5.52 million — including the two non-floor sessions held on Sept. 11-12. All prices include a 15% Buyer’s Premium.
The auction began with a large selection of World Notes representing 94 countries. The Chinese and Cuban notes, in particular, brought strong prices.
The China Commercial Guarantee Bank of Chihli 50 Taels 1912 Pick S2514Ds S/M#P33 Specimen graded PMG About Uncirculated 55 brought $7,475, with several other Chinese notes realizing similar results [...]
Stack’s Bowers Galleries numismatic auction house and subsidiary of Spectrum Group International, Inc., announced that live U.S. and world coin and currency auctions held in August realized a combined total of $57,733,927.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries and world division, Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, conducted the only official auctions of the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money in Chicago August 13-20, the premier annual coin show and convention in the United States.
The entire auction realized an impressive total of $40,036,290, which consisted of $29.8 million U.S. coins, $6.2 million U.S. currency, and $3.4 million foreign coins, and $385,000 foreign paper money [...]
As Baldwin’s celebrated their 25th year of trading in the Orient bidders came out in force to ensure that this pinnacle auction was an outstanding success.
The one day sale achieved an amazing, $5,256,675 (including buyer’s premium,) the highest total of any of Baldwin’s sales in the Orient and a fitting result for our 51st auction.
"It is magnificent to have achieved such a fantastic result from this sale and the perfect outcome to our 51st auction and our celebration of 25 years in the Orient," Edward Baldwin, Baldwin’s Chairman commented after the sale.
Held at The Holiday Inn Golden Mile in Kowloon, in conjunction with the [...]
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) on Tuesday, September 6, began offering Series 2009 $1 Uncut Currency Sheets featuring the signatures of United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and United States Treasurer Rosie Rios.
Each uncut currency sheet includes crisp, uncirculated $1 notes of varying quantities that range in price from $16.25 to $61.00. The Series 2009 $1 notes have a Federal Reserve Bank designation of Philadelphia. [...]
Heritage Auctions, the official auctioneer of the September Long Beach Coin and Currency Exposition, will be presenting more than 5,600 lots of rare and collectible currency as part of its Signature® Currency Auction, Sept. 7-9 and Sept. 11-12.
The lots will be offered in four floor sessions at the Long Beach Exposition and two additional sessions presented online.
Session One kicks off on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 6 p.m. PT with World Bank Notes, followed by selections of Colonial Currency, Canadian Currency, Fractional Currency, notes of the Confederacy and Obsolete Currency [...]
Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio will present an exceptional selection of more than 2,700 lots of Chinese and East Asian coins and banknotes at The Mira Hong Kong, August 22-24, 2011, HKT.
The three-day auction event will spotlight a multitude of collections and highlights including:
- The Chin Family Collection,
- The H.T. Nance Collection,
- The Frank Robinson Collection, and the
- Wa She Wong Collection, Part II.
Interested bidders are invited to join the live auction at The Mira in Kowloon, Hong Kong, or to bid online at www.stacksbowers.com [...]

Baldwin’s are celebrating their 25th year holding auctions in the Orient this year and this, the 51st auction for the group, is set to be a sale to remember.
The sale, which will be held on the 25th August at the Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Kowloon, comprises 1064 lots of far eastern and world coins and banknotes, many with exceptional provenance and of extreme rarity.
The Hong Kong Coin Auction group was started in 1986 by B H Lim of Taisei Singapore, Andre de Clermont and Daniel Fearon of Spink, London. Baldwin’s were involved from Auction No 1 as [...]