Issue 21 · week ending October 26, 2026
October 26, 2026
Gold started the Fed week back above $4,000 after a rough few days, the Mint showed a new fractional Gold Buffalo, and auction calendars are filling up for November.
Spot gold bid $4,015.00, up $20.10 (+0.50%) as of 8:20 a.m. ET Oct. 26, back above $4,000 ahead of the Fed's Oct. 27–28 meeting.
Kitco printed spot gold bid $4,015.00, up $20.10 (+0.50%) as of 8:20 a.m. ET (2026-10-26).
The U.S. Mint revealed the 2026-W $5 Reverse Proof American Gold Buffalo, 1/10 oz .9999 gold with a "20th" anniversary privy mark. Release is Dec. 10 at noon ET, household limit of one, the first fractional Gold Buffalo since 2008. Price and mintage are not set yet.
U.S. Mint product page
CoinNews.net (Mike Unser, Oct. 25) printed household limit of one; release Dec. 10 at noon ET; price and mintage not set yet (2026-10-25).
VCD Auctions #15, The Collector's Cabinet, closes Nov. 19 with an 1851 Augustus Humbert $50 gold piece (PCGS VF35) carrying the inverted ASSAYER edge error, Pogue and Hamilton pedigree Capped Bust halves, and 1908 and 1909 Proof Saint-Gaudens double eagles. No prices yet.
CoinWeek (Oct. 25) printed closes Nov. 19; no prices yet (2026-10-25).
The catalog library lists the October 22, 2026 Precious Metals Auction as realized $792,129.90. The listing does not say whether that total includes the buyer's fee.
Stack's Bowers Galleries printed $792,129.90; the listing does not say whether that total includes the buyer's fee (2026-10-22).
Readers answer "What would you change about the hobby if you could?", from grading-service practices and a shared grading database to fewer pseudo-coin products.
Numismatic News printed no sale figure.
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