LuckyCoin Weekly — June 18, 2026

Stack's Bowers Galleries' June 2026 Showcase Auction, held alongside the Whitman Expo in Baltimore, exceeded expectations and realized over $6.3 million across more than 3,200 lots in seven sessions. The sale featured U.S. coins spanning colonial through patterns, Numismatic Americana, and physical cryptocurrency, with highlights drawn from the Medicus Collection of Presidential Inaugural Medals and the Young-Dakota Collection. Headliners included a 1793 Flowing Hair Cent (AU-50 PCGS) and a strikingly-toned 1921-S Buffalo Nickel (MS-65+ PCGS).

CoinWeek is calling attention to a quiet story inside the upcoming 2026 Uncirculated Coin Set (on sale June 30): the Lincoln cent no longer enters circulation, making the P and D uncirculated examples in this set the only way collectors can get one with an uncirculated finish. The set contains 20 coins across two P-and-D cards, priced at $124.50 with no stated mintage limit — though a product cap of 300,000 applies. For Lincoln cent specialists, this may be the defining Mint Set purchase of the decade.

Stack's Bowers' Spring 2026 Showcase Auction delivered record prices across copper, silver, and gold, led by a Gem Proof 1882 Liberty Head double eagle that realized $810,000 — more than doubling its previous public benchmark of $293,750 from 2012. The coin, graded Proof-66 Deep Cameo by PCGS and CAC-approved, was identified as the finest known CAC example with fewer than 20 survivors. The breadth of the records set across multiple series signaled that advanced collectors remain willing to pay top dollar for genuine trophy coins.