A-Mark Precious Metals' Stack's Bowers Galleries Subsidiary Selected by the United States Mint to Auction Seven Sacagawea Gold Dollars that Orbited Earth Aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1999
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRK) (A-Mark), a leading fully integrated precious metals platform, announced that its Stack's Bowers Galleries subsidiary auctioned seven year 2000 Sacagawea 22 karat gold dollars owned by the United States Mint in a live auction held in their Costa Mesa, California, studios on September 12, 2025.
The coins honor the pioneering spirit of American women. Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark explore the Louisiana Territory and traveled with the expedition to the Pacific Ocean while establishing important cultural contacts and an understanding of the natural environment. In July 1999 the Space Shuttle Columbia, under the command of USAF Col. Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a Space Shuttle Mission, took 12 gold Sacagawea coins into orbit, where they traveled nearly two million miles. Col. Collins earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for the mission.
The coins feature a "W" mintmark for the United States Mint's West Point, New York, facility and since returning from space were stored primarily at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository in Kentucky. The United States Mint has confirmed that the other five of the 12 space-flown coins will be placed into their heritage collection and other public institutions, permanently out of reach for collectors.
Brian Kendrella, President of Stack's Bowers Galleries, stated: "Our team is honored to have been selected by the United States Mint to bring the coins to market, as they reflect core elements of our country's journey… trailblazing explorers, space-age technology and gold. This is the fourth time that the United States Mint has selected Stack's Bowers Galleries for a special auction, and with $3.28 million in realized total prices realized, the seven space-flown Sacagawea coins and the very first struck 2025-W Sacagawea coin represent some of the most significant modern gold pieces ever offered to collectors. Two of these half-ounce coins each sold for $550,000, making them the most valuable U.S. gold coins struck since the Civil War, with a sale price of nearly 300 times their bullion content."
Greg Roberts, A-Mark's CEO, commented: "The auction's success demonstrates the complementary nature of A-Mark's portfolio of companies. A-Mark has a nearly 40-year relationship with the United States Mint and is a leading Authorized Purchaser of the gold, silver, and platinum bullion it produces each month. Stack's Bowers Galleries' legacy as America's oldest collectible coin and currency auction house expands upon this relationship and made it the natural partner for the United States Mint's sale of these legendary space-flown gold dollars.
"I am pleased with the success achieved by Brian and his team and note that the auction featured the use of Stack's Bowers Galleries' patented Coins in Motion technology, whose high-definition video displays intricate details far beyond what static images can achieve. I expect that A-Mark will, over time, opportunistically share this technology across several companies in our Direct-to-Consumer platform."
About A-Mark Precious Metals
Founded in 1965, A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. is a leading fully integrated precious metals platform that offers an array of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper bullion, numismatic coins, and related products to wholesale and retail customers via a portfolio of channels. The company conducts its operations through three complementary segments: Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services, Direct-to-Consumer, and Secured Lending. The company's global customer base spans sovereign and private mints, manufacturers and fabricators, refiners, dealers, financial institutions, industrial users, investors, collectors, e-commerce customers, and other retail customers.
A-Mark's Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services segment distributes and purchases precious metal products from sovereign and private mints. As a U.S. Mint-authorized purchaser of gold, silver, and platinum coins since 1986, A-Mark purchases bullion products directly from the U.S. Mint for sale to customers. A-Mark also has longstanding distributorships with other sovereign mints, including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The company sells more than 200 different products to e-commerce retailers, coin and bullion dealers, financial institutions, brokerages, and collectors. In addition, A-Mark sells precious metal products to industrial users, including metal refiners, manufacturers, and electronic fabricators.
A-Mark's consolidated subsidiary, Stack's Bowers Galleries is a rare coin and currency auction house as well as a wholesale and retail dealer of numismatic and bullion products. Pinehurst Coin Exchange is a precious metals broker that services the wholesale and retail marketplace and is retailer of modern and numismatic coins on eBay.
Located in the heart of Hong Kong's Central Financial District, A-Mark's consolidated subsidiary, LPM Group Limited (LPM), is one of Asia's largest precious metals dealers. LPM offers a wide selection of products to its wholesale customers, through its showroom and 24/7 online trading platform, including recently released silver coins, gold bullion, certified coins, and the latest collectible numismatic issues.
Through its A-M Global Logistics subsidiary, A-Mark provides its customers with a range of complementary services, including managed storage options for precious metals as well as receiving, handling, inventorying, processing, packaging, and shipping of precious metals and coins on a secure basis. A-Mark's mint operations, which are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary Silver Towne Mint, enable the company to offer customers a wide range of proprietary coin and bar offerings and, during periods of market volatility when the availability of silver bullion from sovereign mints is often product constrained, preferred product access.
A-Mark's Direct-to-Consumer segment operates as an omni-channel retailer of precious metals, providing access to a multitude of products through its wholly owned subsidiaries, JM Bullion, Goldline, AMS, Stack's Bowers Galleries, Pinehurst Coin Exchange, and its controlling interest in Silver Gold Bull. JMB owns and operates numerous websites targeting specific niches within the precious metals retail market, including JMBullion.com, ProvidentMetals.com, Silver.com, CyberMetals.com, GoldPrice.org, SilverPrice.org, BGASC.com, BullionMax.com, and Gold.com. Goldline markets precious metals directly to the investor community through various channels, including television, radio, and telephonic sales efforts. A-Mark is the majority owner of Silver Gold Bull, a leading online precious metals retailer in Canada, and also holds minority ownership interests in three additional direct-to-consumer brands.
The company operates its Secured Lending segment through its wholly owned subsidiary, Collateral Finance Corporation (CFC). Founded in 2005, CFC is a California licensed finance lender that originates and acquires loans secured by bullion and numismatic coins. Its customers include coin and precious metal dealers, investors, and collectors.
A-Mark is headquartered in El Segundo, CA and has additional offices and facilities in the neighboring Los Angeles area as well as in Dallas, TX, Las Vegas, NV, Winchester, IN, Vienna, Austria, and Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.amark.com.
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About Stack's Bowers Galleries
Founded in 1933, Stack's Bowers Galleries is America's oldest collectible coin and currency auction house, and has grown to become a global leader in numismatics and bullion. Stack's Bowers operates in two complementary units: The Auction Services unit conducts in-person, internet and specialized auctions of consigned and owned items and has sold a wide range of the most important rarities and numismatic collections over its distinguished history. The Dealership unit maintains a sizeable inventory of rare coins and paper money that it sells as both a wholesaler to other retailers and a direct-to-consumer dealer. Stack's Bowers is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California and operates additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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