Kevin Lipton Opens Impressive Rare Coins, Fine Art & Antiques Gallery in Beverly Hills

Lipton Coins, Fine Art & Antiques, a new gallery specializing in expert assistance to rare coin and paper money collectors and investors in Southern California and nationwide, has opened at 9478 W. Olympic Blvd. in Beverly Hills, California.

Current displays of rare numismatic items for sale at the new store include a selection of pre-1800 U.S. gold coins, a large array of rare, early $100 denomination notes, and a unique uncut sheet of currency from the Indian Territory.

“We are an important local, regional, and national resource for buying, selling, and obtaining professional evaluations of rare coins, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium precious metal items as well as original works of fine art from masters to moderns. We also have an amazing array of decorative arts, historic antiques, and original Tiffany Studios lamps,” said Bryan Abbott, gallery director.

The gallery’s extensive current numismatic displays include:

• A first year and first type 1796 Capped Bust right Quarter Eagle, no stars on the obverse, graded NGC MS60.
• 1796/5 overdate Capped Bust right Half Eagle, NGC MS64, an exceptional survivor of one of the great rarities in early United States gold coinage.
• 1879 Flowing Hair $4 Stella, NGC PF65 cameo, a landmark rarity and one of the most famous and enigmatic patterns in all of United States numismatics.  
• 1804 Capped Bust right Eagle with crosslet 4, PCGS MS62, one of the premier rarities of early United States gold coins.

Rare banknotes in the gallery display include:

• A unique, uncut sheet of three $10 and one $20 Indian Territory 1882 Brown Back National Bank Notes from Holdenville in the area of the Native American Creek Nation settlement in Oklahoma. Only two uncut sheets are known from Indian Territory, and this highly important discovery is the only one from Holdenville. 
• A collection of early $50 and $100 denomination bank notes, including 1869 Allison/Spinner Legal Tender $100, Friedberg #168, graded PMG 25; 1891 Rosecrans/Nebeker Treasury Note $50, Friedberg #376. PMG 45 from the Dean Oaks Collection; Blackstone National Bank of Boston Original Charter #514 $100 National Bank Note, PCGS 55; and First National Bank of Puerto Rico at San Juan Series 1902 Red Seal $10, Friedberg #613, PMG 20.
• A Series 1902 Plain Back $10, Friedberg #633, PMG 63 from the Crescent Hills Bank that is the only known surviving example of a banknote issued in West Hollywood, California.

“Another numismatic highlight on display at the gallery is a rare three-and-a-half-foot-tall gilded bronze statue of the early 20th-century New York City landmark ‘Victory’ statue created by acclaimed sculptor and coin designer Augustus Saint-Gaudens,” said Kevin Lipton of Kevin Lipton Rare Coins.

Insured for $3 million, it is one of only three known privately held bronze reductions and was last publicly displayed at the American Numismatic Association 2023 World’s Fair of Money®.

“The statue is reminiscent of the great artist’s renowned 1907-1933 U.S. Double Eagle gold coin design. The same female model, Harriette Eugenia Anderson, posed for Saint-Gaudens for both the statue and the similar Liberty striding coin design,” explained Abbott.

After Saint-Gaudens died in 1907, his widow, Augusta Fisher Homer Saint-Gaudens, authorized the creation of eight reductions of the ten-foot-tall statue that is part of the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in Grand Army Plaza at the Southeast corner of New York’s Central Park. In addition to the three privately held reductions, five are in museum or institution collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The Lipton Coins, Fine Art & Antiques gallery, 9478 W. Olympic Blvd., Beverly Hills, is open Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. Evening and weekend appointments are available by calling 310-939-9399. For additional information, visit online at www.LCFAA.com.