Stack's Bowers Galleries Offers Six-Figure Chinese Rarities Certified by NGC

Exceptionally rare gold and silver coins from China are among the offerings certified by NGC in a high-profile Stack's Bowers Galleries auction. Online bidding is already underway for the April 2026 Hong Kong (SAR) Showcase Auction - Session 1 - Rarities Night sale, which concludes April 13, 2026.

One of the top highlights of the sale is a China 1932 Silver Dollar - Birds Under Junk graded NGC MS 62 (lot 40155), which has an estimate of $400,000 to $600,000. This particular pattern has a seldom-seen design in which the birds on the reverse are pictured below the junk (a traditional Chinese sailing vessel), skirting the surface of the water. Created as part of proposed coinage to put China on the gold standard, it is one of just two known examples with a reeded edge, according to the auction house.

Another important pattern is also featured in the auction: a China 1926 Shantung Gold 10 Dollars graded NGC MS 65 (lot 40055), which has an estimate of $200,000 to $400,000. With a beloved design showing a dragon and a phoenix, this is one of only six examples of its catalog number listed in the NGC Census, with only one graded higher than this.

Other NGC-certified highlights include:

• a China 1900 Silver Dollar - Peking Pattern graded NGC MS 62 (lot 40088), with an estimate of $200,000 to $400,000
• a China (1912) Gold Dollar - Sun Yat-Sen graded NGC MS 61 (lot 40105), with an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000
• a China 1889 Kwangtung Silver Dollar graded NGC MS 62 (lot 40045), with an estimate of $150,000 to $250,000
• a China (1901-08) Szechuan Silver Dollar graded NGC MS 64 (lot 40060), with an estimate of $75,000 to $150,000
• a China YR25(1936) Nickel Pattern Silver Dollar graded NGC MS 65 (lot 40161), with an estimate of $80,000 to $120,000
• a China (1856) Shanghai Tael graded NGC MS 61 (lot 40054), with an estimate of $70,000 to $100,000
• a China 1921 Silver Dollar - Hsu Shih Chang, Bottom Legend graded NGC MS 63+ (lot 40132), with an estimate of $60,000 to $90,000
• a China 1929 Pattern Silver Dollar - Japan graded NGC MS 63 (lot 40153), with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000

Estimates are provided by the auction house. The $ symbol represents US Dollars.