In 1948, baseball legend George Herman “Babe” Ruth was gifted a gold pocket watch in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium. That same watch was put up for auction online mid May. The 14-karat gold Longines watch is the only significant artifact related to Ruth offered to the public by his family. It […]

A piece of American trivia: Do you remember who supposedly said the phrase “The British are coming!”? If you said Paul Revere, you must have paid attention during your high school American History class! But did you also know Paul Revere was a silversmith? Around the year 1805 he made a gold thimble with the […]

Sotheby’s held an auction May 13 featuring two diamonds weighing in at over 100 carats. The “Graff Vivid Yellow” is a 100.9-carat yellow diamond, an extremely rare and bright gem that sold for $16.3 million. Another top lot to be featured is a 103.46 round white diamond, one of the largest brilliant-cut diamonds in the […]

On April 15, the Odyssey Marine Exploration discovered more than 80 pounds of gold from an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina using a robot. The ship carried as much as 21 tons of gold coins, gold ingots and raw gold, and sank in a hurricane traveling from New York to San Francisco. This […]

April 20-26 is National Coin Week, and in honor of the occasion The Central States Numismatic Society is offering “The Riverboat Collection” of territorial and private gold coins through Heritage Auctions today. The collection consists of 63 pieces, many of which are rare and have historical importance, as products of the California Gold Rush, the […]