Uncertainty Doesn’t Deter Bidders in Stack’s Bowers’ $37.5 Million Auction
The Stack’s Bowers Galleries March 2020 Auction marked a successful kickoff to the firm’s 2020 season of flagship U.S. coin sales. Originally scheduled to take place in Baltimore alongside the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring Expo, the auction was relocated to the Stack’s Bowers headquarters in Orange County, Calif., following the cancellation of all public events in the state of Maryland in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite these uncertain circumstances, the firm described the sale as an “astounding success.” Most of the sessions earned considerably above their pre-sale estimates, which were determined when the catalogs were produced. In total, more than $26.59 million worth of U.S. coins were sold. In all,
