The finest-graded specimen of America’s “most beautiful coin."

Steve Contursi, President of Rare Coin Wholesalers, paid $2.76 million Friday for a 1907 gold coin that experts have called the most beautiful in U.S. currency.

Steven Contursi made headlines last year when he sold a rare coin for a record-breaking $7.85 million, and the Laguna Beach resident has again broken the $7 million mark.

Coin collectors from across the country are expected to pop their corks over a Napa vintner's $7.5 million vintage gold coin when it is displayed in Sacramento for the first time.

What may be America's oldest silver dollar has become the world's most expensive coin, with its owner saying it changed hands in a private transaction between coin collectors for nearly $8 million.

The famous Brasher Doubloon, the first gold coin made in the United States that was hand-struck in 1787 by George Washington's New York City neighbor and is now owned by a Laguna Beach resident, will be a featured exhibit at the World's Fair of Money® in Los Angeles, Aug. 5 to 9.

The famous Brasher Doubloon, the first gold coin made in the United States that was hand-struck in 1787 by George Washington's New York City neighbor and is now owned by a Laguna Beach resident, will be a featured exhibit at the World's Fair of Money® in Los Angeles, Aug. 5 to 9.

A one-of-a-kind California Gold Rush coin will return to Baltimore for the first time since it was sold by The John Hopkins University more than a quarter century ago.

The tiny, early American silver coin personally authorized by President George Washington 215 years ago, and purchased for a headline-generating record $1.5 million this past summer by a Sunnyvale educational foundation, will make its first Northern California public appearance.