How much is the most expensive coin in the world

Even at the very dawn of market relations, people tried to find the most convenient way of calculating their goods and services, they came up with money. At first they were primitive pebbles, but as soon as mankind discovered metal and learned how to process it, the era of coins began. An innumerable set of metal money of various shapes and sizes was minted for our entire centuries-old history. And hardly then someone could assume, what value these coins will have after only a few centuries. Of course, the most interesting among numismatists are the rarest coins. With the fact that in fact they can not cost anything, true collectors are laying out for them at the auctions whole states. Each coin has its own unique history of origin and circulation, some of them without exaggeration should be called works of art, and this makes them truly priceless.

The most expensive coin in the world

Today, there is a certain number of such coins, the price of which is known all over the world and is measured in millions of American dollars. The first place in the top of such rare copies is the dream of every coin collector, the most expensive coin in the world, whose price at the auction organized by the auction house SOTBIS in 2002 reached almost eight million dollars - this is the so-called "Double Eagle". This coin with a nominal value of 20 US dollars, made of gold, served as a sign of wealth, symbolized peace, freedom and military valor. On her obverse was a statue of Liberty with a torch in her right hand and representing 13 US colonies of 13 stars.

On the reverse was depicted giving the coin the name of an eagle with straightened wings, carrying a bunch of arrows and an olive branch, surrounded by the number of states that were then part of the United States, 46 stars. The most expensive coin in the world was issued in the period from 1842 to 1933, however, then, during the Great Depression, the US government abandons the gold coin standard and decides to withdraw them from circulation in order to re-melt into gold bars. Worldwide, fewer than two dozen "Double Eagles" have survived, all of them are considered property of the Treasury of the United States of America and only one, the most expensive coin in the world, is in a private collection.

Other no less significant specimens of ancient coins

By right, an honorable second place is occupied by the silver US dollar, dated 1804. An interesting feature of this coin is that it was practically released in 1834 by order of the US government for gift sets of coins in circulation at that time. And whether by mistake workers, or for some other reason, the date indicated on the coin, read: "1804". This is the year in which, of course, it was not yet. This copy is of great interest to collectors, according to numismatists, the acquisition of such a dollar gives immortality to their priceless collection. In 2008, one of these silver coins was sold for an amount exceeding three and a half million dollars. Then follows "Dime Berbera", sold in 2007 for 1900000 dollars. Silver one-dollar coin "Sitting Freedom" was last evaluated at 1300000 US dollars. 1 penny of Australia, minted in 1930 by the Melbourne Mint in just 6 copies, was sold in 2005 for more than $ 517,000. And let it not the most expensive coin in the world, but its advantage is that it is the most valuable coin in Australia.