Record Coin Prices for CAC Approved PCGS/NGC Coins at GreatCollections
GreatCollections is the leading auction house for CAC approved certified coins. We currently have 826 CAC approved PCGS/NGC coins in our auctions available for bidding.
CAC coins typically sell for premium prices. The premium can range from just a few percent to more than 50% depending on the coin issue, grade and rarity. Generally speaking, classic gold coins and early silver bring the largest premiums with CAC approval. Even common date Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles sell for big premiums. At the time of writing this, common date Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles graded PCGS/NGC MS-66 sell around the $2100 mark. The same grade/grading service with CAC approval regularly sells in the $3350-$3850 range.
These are just some of the CAC-approved certified coins we have auctioned at GreatCollections. We have sold over 107,683 CAC approved coins since 2011 at GreatCollections. All of our CAC coin auction prices are public record and we maintain a Complete Auction Archive, which is searchable by coin denomination, series and even grading service/grade. GreatCollections offers free coin appraisals. For more information, please contact us.
 | 1795 Capped Bust Gold Eagle 9 Leaves PCGS MS-63+ (CAC Green) (Ex. Pogue & Simpson Collections) A major rarity in U.S. numismatics, only 20-22 examples of the 9 Leaves 1795 Gold Eagle exist today. This is widely considered to be the finest known, as evidenced by its CAC approval. In fact, it is the sole 9 Leaves 1795 Gold Eagle to ever receive CAC approval. The 9 Leaves refers to the number of leaves on the reverse palm branch. In 1795, both 9 Leaves and the more plentiful (yet still very rare) 13 Leaves were struck. John Dannreuther estimates between 210 and 500 were originally minted of the 9 Leaves version, a small fraction of the 1795 Gold Eagle mintage of 5,583 pieces. Less than two dozen are known today (Dannreuther estimates 20-22 pieces). The 1795 9 Leaves eagle is listed among the 100 Greatest U.S. Coins by Garrett/Guth, and is missing from most advanced collections of U.S. Gold coins. Pedigree Information: August 1989 - '89 Auction by Superior September 2015 - D. Brent Pogue Collection Auction January 2022 - Bob R. Simpson Collection Auction In the Simpson auction, this coin realized $3.36 million, a new record for any business strike Gold Eagle. | Sold $2,711,250.00 ($2,410,000.00 hammer) May 07, 2023 |
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 | 1893-S Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS-67 (CAC Green) (Toned) (Ex. Jack Lee, Coronet) The Ultimate Morgan Silver Dollar. The 1893-S silver dollar has the lowest mintage of all Morgan Dollars issued between 1878 and 1921, and it is universally considered the key to the series in all grades. This particular example is the finest known by two full grade points (and we consider the coin is still conservatively graded). When you first see the coin in-hand, you don't even consider it could be an 1893-S, due to the superior quality and eye appeal, not to mention the pristine fields and strong strike. It never touched the inside of Morgan dollar bag, nor was it housed in a paper bank roll back in the day. We picture the coin being struck by a careful Mint employee in San Francisco and handled with cotton gloves from that point forward. This 1893-S has a long history in the world of coins, mostly with the numismatic family of Cornelius Vermeule, who himself, acquired it at the time of mintage, before passing through generations of the same family until it was finally sold by a New York firm for a record-breaking $414,000 in 2001. The coin was auctioned uncertified/raw, which is hard to believe in today's market for such a high value and important piece and was acquired by Morgan dollar expert Jack Lee. Counting the Vermeule family as one, there has only been four owners of this coin since it was minted almost 130 years ago. GreatCollections is privileged to auction this historic coin, which we repeat is the ultimate Morgan dollar. It is certain to set a new record when the bidding ends on Sunday, August 29, 2021. | Sold $2,086,875.00 ($1,855,000.00 hammer) August 29, 2021 |
 | 1869 Liberty Gold Double Eagle PCGS Proof-66+ DCAM (CAC Green) | Sold $1,372,500.00 ($1,220,000.00 hammer) January 19, 2025 |
 | 1958 Lincoln Cent Doubled Die Obverse PCGS MS-65 RD (CAC Green) (Red Copper Collection) The King of Doubled Dies. The finest of only three examples known, and in its first auction appearance. Missing from all major collections of Lincoln Cents. Severe doubling, similar to 1955. This variety was first reported in the early 1980s and has severe doubling of IN GOD WE TRUST and LIBERTY. | Sold $1,136,250.00 ($1,010,000.00 hammer) January 22, 2023 |
 | 1969-S Lincoln Cent Doubled Die Obverse PCGS MS-66 RD (CAC Green) (Red Copper Collection) | Sold $601,875.00 ($535,000.00 hammer) January 22, 2023 |
 | 1907 Indian Gold Eagle Rolled Edge PCGS MS-65+ (CAC Green) | Sold $589,500.00 ($524,000.00 hammer) February 18, 2024 |
 | 1803 Capped Bust Gold Eagle Extra Star in Cloud PCGS MS-65 (CAC Green) An extraordinary coin, the finest known. Aside from being popular among Gold Eagle collectors, it is also an important type coin, being graded gem MS-65 with CAC approval. Thick original luster. No matter how significant your collection is, this would be a highlight. | Sold $586,687.50 ($521,500.00 hammer) May 28, 2023 |
 | Unique 1855 Wass, Molitor & Co. Large Head Gold Twenty Dollar PCGS AU-50 (CAC Green) (Ex. Carter Collection) Excessively rare 1855 $20 Wass, Molitor & Co. Large Head Twenty Dollar, (K-8a). PCGS AU-50 CAC. Unique. One of only four known Large Head Wass Molitor Twenty Dollar coins, and unique by variety. It is the only example approved by CAC. Listed in A Guide Book of U.S. Coins, commonly referred to as the Red Book, as a unique variety. When this coin last sold in 2014 it was discovered that unlike the other three examples known, it used the reverse die of the Small Head Wass Molitor Twenty. The other three used a slightly different reverse die. This specimen is essentially the only collectable Large Head Wass Molitor double eagle available to collectors. Of the other three known specimens, one is in the Smithsonian Institution, one was stolen in the Willis H. DuPont robbery of 1967 and its location is unknown at this time, and the third was also stolen in 1967 from the Yale University collection but is believed to have been recovered. An 1855 $20 Large Head Twenty Dollar has appeared at public auction only seven times since 1896, including this appearance. Of those seven appearances, six are of this coin. The lone auction appearance of a different Wass Molitor Large Head Twenty occurred in 1929 in the Thomas Elder sale of the Lawrence collection, lot 1406, where it realized the sum of $7,000. To put that into perspective, the Lawrence sale also included the following lots: an 1855 Kellogg $50 in choice proof at $2,150 (14 known) and an attractive AU $20 1860 Clark Gruber Mountain Twenty at $900 (10-12 known). Until the 1929 Lawrence sale of the 1855 Large Head Wass Molitor Twenty Dollar, the previous record price for any coin, was the sale of the Stickney example of the Brasher Doubloon in June of 1907 by Henry Chapman for $6,200. This auction record stood for twenty-two years until it was bested by the Wass Molitor Large Head Twenty Dollar at $7,000 in 1929! The same Brasher Doubloon sold recently for $9.36 million at the Partrick auction by Heritage in January 2021. The Wass Molitor Large Head Twenty Dollar has been missing from nearly every major collection of pioneer gold including: Zabriskie, Garrett, Nygren, Eliasberg, Kaufman and Beck. This example is Ex: Carter 1984. Ex: Hayes (1896), Virgil Brand, Roach (1944), Geiss (1947), Amon Carter (1984), Riverboat (2014), Colorado Native (2014 to present). | Sold $568,125.00 ($505,000.00 hammer) August 15, 2021 |
 | 1918/7-D Buffalo Nickel PCGS MS-65+ (CAC Green) | Sold $511,875.00 ($455,000.00 hammer) February 11, 2024 |
 | 1944-S Lincoln Cent Steel PCGS MS-66 (CAC Green) (Simpson Collection) | Sold $490,500.00 ($436,000.00 hammer) January 05, 2025 |
 | 1892 Liberty Gold Double Eagle PCGS MS-67 (CAC Green) | Sold $429,750.00 ($382,000.00 hammer) April 07, 2024 |
 | 1919 Lincoln Cent PCGS MS-69 RD (CAC Green) OGH (Red Copper Collection) The only Wheat Cent (1909-1958) graded MS-69 RD by PCGS. CAC approved. | Sold $421,875.00 ($375,000.00 hammer) January 15, 2023 |
 | 1868 Liberty Gold Double Eagle PCGS Proof-64+ DCAM (CAC Green) Only 25 minted, although only 10-12 examples are known in all grades. Very rarely on the market, one has not appeared in auction in 14 years (in any grade). This is the DCAM graded at PCGS/NGC/CACG in any grade. | Sold $421,875.00 ($375,000.00 hammer) January 12, 2025 |
 | 1885 Liberty Gold Double Eagle PCGS Proof-66+ DCAM (CAC Green) The single finest example graded by PCGS with CAC approval. | Sold $394,999.88 ($351,111.00 hammer) September 05, 2021 |
 | 1857-S Three-Dollar Gold Piece S.S. Central America Shipwreck PCGS MS-67 (CAC Green) (Gold Foil Label) Single finest known example by two full points, and the only CAC approved 1857-S $3 in any Mint State grade. Perhaps the most important single coin to be recovered from the famous shipwreck. This was exhibited at the Philadelphia 2018 ANA as part of an extraordinary group of high quality coins recovered by the S.S. Central America shipwreck. | Sold $367,875.00 ($327,000.00 hammer) August 29, 2021 |
 | 1901 Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS-65 (CAC Green) OGH | Sold $325,000.00 September 22, 2021 |
 | 1909 Lincoln Cent V.D.B. PCGS Proof-67+ RD (CAC Green) | Sold $365,625.00 ($325,000.00 hammer) August 28, 2022 |
 | 1857-S Liberty Gold Double Eagle Spiked Shield S.S. Central America Shipwreck PCGS MS-67+ (CAC Green) (Gold Foil Label) | Sold $354,375.00 ($315,000.00 hammer) March 06, 2022 |
 | 1797 Draped Bust Silver Dollar B-3 BB-71 10x6 Stars PCGS MS-64 (CAC Green) (Colonel Green-Newman Collection) (Toned) | Sold $348,750.00 ($310,000.00 hammer) July 17, 2022 |
 | 1909-S Lincoln Cent V.D.B. PCGS MS-67 RD (CAC Green) OGH (Red Copper Collection) The finest 1909-S VDB we have seen. | Sold $345,375.00 ($307,000.00 hammer) January 15, 2023 |
 | 1856 Flying Eagle Cent PCGS MS-66 (CAC Green) | Sold $343,125.00 ($305,000.00 hammer) November 12, 2023 |
 | 1877 Indian Cent PCGS MS-66+ RD (CAC Green) | Sold $340,875.00 ($303,000.00 hammer) November 19, 2023 |
 | 1930-S Saint-Gaudens Gold Double Eagle PCGS MS-65 (CAC Green) (Elite-Morehead) | Sold $330,750.00 ($294,000.00 hammer) February 02, 2025 |
 | 1955 Lincoln Cent Doubled Die Obverse PCGS MS-65+ RD (CAC Green) (Ex. Stewart Blay / Red Copper) | Sold $320,625.00 ($285,000.00 hammer) February 23, 2025 |
 | 1893-O Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS-65+ DMPL (CAC Green) | Sold $309,937.50 ($275,500.00 hammer) April 30, 2023 |