An historic gold coin is to be displayed in San Francisco for the general public for the first time, according to News-Antique.com.
A 1943-S bronze Lincoln cent.
Laguna Beach resident Steve Contursi sold a rare coin he bought recently for more than $100,000 to a very happy collector on the East Coast.
The first gold coin made for the United States, hand-struck in 1787 by George Washington's New York City neighbor and later owned by a prominent 19th century railroad magnate, will be publicly displayed for the first time in San Francisco.
Last week he bought a penny for $72,500. This week, he plans to sell it again. It's something he knows well, Steve Contursi has been in the rare-coin business for 30 years.
News that Steve Contursi has purchased a 1943-S copper cent previously unknown to exist by the general hobby is riveting.
A rare penny found by a teenaged collector in pocket change in Long Beach 64 years ago has been sold to a Laguna Beach resident for $72,500.
A 1943-S bronze Lincoln cent.
What does $72,500 get you these days? If coin collecting is your thing, it gets you a penny.
Contursi, who owns east Napa vineyard, lucks into find from 1943
A 154-year-old $20 gold piece known as the Kellogg Twenty will return to Baltimore next month for the first time in nearly 30 years.
A one-of-a-kind California Gold Rush coin will return to Baltimore for the first time since it was sold by The John Hopkins University more than a quarter century ago.
