Heritage Auctions Celebrates Its Most Successful Year With Total Sales of $1.76 Billion in 2023
21 percent growth over 2022 leads to a third consecutive record-setting year.
Among the many record-setting results achieved by Heritage Auctions in 2023, none looms larger than the one set by the auction house itself.
Last year, Heritage reached $1.76 billion in total sales, the highest ever for the 47-year-old company following record-setting years in 2021 and 2022. Heritage experienced an extraordinary 21 percent growth over 2022.
Heritage also set dozens of significant auction records spanning many of its more than four dozen categories — from U.S. coins to comic art, Batman to Mickey Mantle, the founding of the United States to the end of the Death Star. Numerous 2023 auctions brimmed with headline-grabbers, including Archie and Edith Bunker’s landmark living room and the Boston bar where everybody knows your name. To all of that, we say: "Cheers.“
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The past year has yet again proven the enduring enthusiasm of collectors and the ever-expanding universe of fascinating objects that fire the passion of our collector clients,” says CEO and co-founder Steve Ivy. “We are so grateful to those who became part of the Heritage family in 2023 and look forward to a 2024 full of amazing discoveries, thrilling auctions and the passionate pursuit of amazing objects.”
Heritage’s remarkable 2023 was led by U.S. and World & Ancient Coins, which surpassed a combined $368.6 million in sales. Private sales increased significantly over 2022, thanks to high gold prices and a strong coin market. Collector clients also seized upon some legendary offerings, among them the 1870-S $3 gold coin from the historic Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection that sold for a record $5.52 million to begin 2023. Four months later, one of just two known proofs of an 1829 Capped Head Left Half Eagle, also from the Bass Collection, realized a record-setting $2.88 million.
The Bass Collection proved especially notable: Offered in four installments, with the final auction last August, this historic assemblage realized $83.66 million (more than $20 million over its pre-auction estimate), with all proceeds benefitting dozens of Dallas-based non-profits supported by the Harry W. Bass Jr. Foundation. Heritage is proud to be associated with this storied collection and the impact its sale will have on its hometown for years to come.
