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1854 Type 2 Gold Dollar Value & Price Guide (2026)
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The Type 2 Gold Dollar is one of the shortest-lived designs in American coinage. It was produced for just three years, from 1854 to 1856, and the 1854 Philadelphia issue was the first year of this design. Chief Engraver James Barton Longacre enlarged the gold dollar from the tiny Type 1 size, giv...
1796 No Stars Draped Bust Quarter Eagle Value & Price Guide (2026)
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The United States Mint in Philadelphia had been open for just four years when it struck its first $2.50 gold coin in 1796. Chief Engraver Robert Scot designed the obverse with a portrait of Liberty wearing a soft cap, her hair flowing behind her. He left the field around her portrait completely b...
Blood Bowl (1986 Games Workshop First Edition) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1986, Games Workshop designer Jervis Johnson had an idea: take the dark fantasy world of Warhammer and add American football. The result was Blood Bowl, a tabletop game where Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, and Humans compete in a brutal sport with no real rules against violence. The first edition came ...
Rookwood Standard Glaze (Kataro Shirayamadani) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1887, a young Japanese artist named Kataro Shirayamadani walked into the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio and started painting. He would remain there for nearly 60 years, producing some of the most technically accomplished art pottery ever created in America. His pieces in the Standard Gla...
Moog Minimoog Model D (1970-1981) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Musical Instruments · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1970, a small company in Trumansburg, New York built a synthesizer that fit on a table. Before the Minimoog Model D, synthesizers were room-sized modular systems that cost as much as a house and required an engineering degree to operate. Bob Moog and his team distilled the essential elements o...
World of Warcraft TCG Spectral Tiger Loot Card Value & Price Guide (2026)
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
In 2007, Upper Deck Entertainment hid a card inside random booster packs of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game that could give you something no amount of gold or raiding could buy: a translucent spectral tiger mount in the game. The Spectral Tiger loot card, found in the "Fires of Outland" e...
1999 Pokemon Base Set 1st Edition Mewtwo Holo Value & Price Guide (2026)
Trading Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Mewtwo was the final boss. In the original Pokemon games, after you beat the Elite Four, you ventured deep into Cerulean Cave to find the most powerful Pokemon in the game: a psychic clone of the mythical Mew, created through genetic engineering. When the Pokemon Trading Card Game launched in the...
Zenith El Primero A386 (1969) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Watches · Updated about 1 month ago
On January 10, 1969, Zenith unveiled the El Primero at a press conference in Switzerland. It was one of the first automatic chronograph movements ever produced, beating at an unusually high frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour. The A386 reference, with its distinctive tri-color subdials in blu...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1982 Originals) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Toys & Figures · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1982, Mattel needed a hit. Star Wars figures were dominating the toy aisle, and Mattel had famously passed on the Star Wars license years earlier. Their answer was Masters of the Universe: a line of muscular, 5.5-inch action figures set in a fantasy world called Eternia. He-Man, the lead figur...
The Misfits Night of the Living Dead 7" (Plan 9, 1979) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1979, a band from Lodi, New Jersey pressed about 2,000 copies of a 7-inch single on their own label. The band was the Misfits. The label was Plan 9 Records, named after the Ed Wood film. The A-side was "Night of the Living Dead," three minutes of Glenn Danzig howling about zombies over distort...
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (Factory First Pressing) Value & Price Guide (2026)
Vinyl Records · Updated about 1 month ago
On June 15, 1979, a small Manchester label called Factory Records released an album with no band name on the cover, no title, and no tracklist. Just a black sleeve with a mysterious white image of stacked radio pulsar waves. The album was Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, and it changed the cour...
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #8 Value & Price Guide (2026)
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In December 1984, Spider-Man walked into an alien machine on a distant planet called Battleworld and came out wearing a sleek black costume. He thought it was just a new suit. It was actually an alien symbiote that would eventually bond with Eddie Brock and become Venom, one of Marvel's most popu...
House of Secrets #92 Value & Price Guide (2026)
Comic Books · Updated about 1 month ago
In the summer of 1971, writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson created an eight-page story for DC Comics' horror anthology series House of Secrets. The story, titled "Swamp Thing," told of a scientist named Alex Olsen who was murdered by his colleague and transformed into a monstrous plant cr...
2020 Panini Prizm Joe Burrow #307 Value & Price Guide (2026)
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy, a national championship, and the number one overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft all within the span of five months. Then he tore his ACL in his rookie season. Then he came back and took the Cincinnati Bengals to their first Super Bowl in 33 years. His 2020 Panini...
1990 Leaf Sammy Sosa #220 Value & Price Guide (2026)
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Sammy Sosa hit 609 career home runs, smashed 60 or more in three separate seasons, and became one of the most electrifying players in baseball history. His 1990 Leaf rookie card sits in a strange spot: produced during the junk wax era when cards flooded the market by the millions, yet still carry...
1953 Topps Mickey Mantle #82 Value and Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1953 Topps Mickey Mantle #82 Value and Price Guide By 1953, Mickey Mantle was no longer a prospect. He was the guy. The 21-year-old center fielder had just finished a season in which he hit .311 with 23 home runs and helped the Yankees win their fourth consecutive World Series. His 1952 Topps ...
1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 Value & Price Guide (2026)
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
# 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 - What's It Worth? Somewhere around 1960, a Topps employee named Sy Berger loaded hundreds of unsold cases of baseball cards onto a barge and dumped them into the Atlantic Ocean off the New Jersey coast. Thousands of Mickey Mantle cards sank to the bottom. The one...
1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig #160 Value & Price Guide
Sports Cards · Updated about 1 month ago
Lou Gehrig played 2,130 consecutive games. He hit .340 for his career. He won six World Series titles, two American League MVP awards, and a Triple Crown. And then, at age 36, he stood at a microphone in Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, and told 61,808 people he was the luckiest man on the face of...
1867 Hawaii Kamehameha Stamp Set Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1867, the Kingdom of Hawaii was still an independent nation with its own postal system, its own currency, and its own stamps. The islands sat in the middle of the Pacific, ruled by the Kamehameha dynasty that had unified the Hawaiian archipelago through warfare and diplomacy starting in 1795. ...
1916 Jenny Invert Trial Color Proofs Value & Price Guide
Stamps · Updated about 1 month ago
Before the famous 24-cent Inverted Jenny stamp of 1918 became the most celebrated error in American philately, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was already experimenting with bicolor airmail stamp designs using the Curtiss JN-4 airplane image. Trial color proofs from 1916 and the surrounding ...
1999 Wide AM Lincoln Cent Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
Every Lincoln cent minted for circulation between 1993 and 2008 was supposed to have a "Close AM" on the reverse, where the letters A and M in "AMERICA" nearly touch. Proof cents used a "Wide AM" where A and M are clearly separated. But in 1998, 1999, and 2000, a small number of circulation strik...
1885 Liberty Head V Nickel (Proof Only) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
In 1885, the United States Mint in Philadelphia made a decision coin collectors would celebrate for the next 140 years: they struck Liberty Head nickels exclusively as proofs. No business strikes. No coins for circulation. Just 3,790 carefully struck proof coins sold directly to collectors throug...
1795 Draped Bust Dollar (Small Eagle) Value & Price Guide
Coins · Updated about 1 month ago
The United States Mint struck its first silver dollars in 1794 using the Flowing Hair design. The coins were poorly struck, the dies wore out quickly, and only about 1,758 pieces were produced. By October 1795, the Mint was ready for a new design. Artist Gilbert Stuart had painted a portrait of P...
Carcassonne First German Edition (2000) Value & Price Guide
Collectible Toys & Games · Updated about 1 month ago
Klaus-Jurgen Wrede was a music and theology teacher in Germany when he designed a tile-laying game inspired by the medieval walled city of Carcassonne in southern France. He had visited the city and been struck by its fortifications, its roads radiating outward, and the surrounding farmland. He t...
American Brilliant Cut Glass (1876-1916) Value & Price Guide
Antiques & Decorative Arts · Updated about 1 month ago
At the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, American glass companies displayed cut glass pieces so deeply carved and brilliantly polished that they outshone anything European manufacturers had brought. European visitors were stunned. American cut glass had been considered inferior to Engli...