Newly Designed 28-Coin Set Includes Presidential $1 Coins

WASHINGTON - The United States Mint announced today that it will begin accepting orders for the 2007 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set® at 12 noon (ET) on October 9. Priced at $22.95, this year’s set is the first to include uncirculated versions of the new Presidential $1 Coins honoring the first four Presidents of the United States. The set also includes uncirculated versions of the five quarters issued in the United States Mint’s 50 State Quarters® Program, the Golden Dollar featuring Sacagawea, the Kennedy half-dollar, the Roosevelt dime, the Jefferson nickel and the Lincoln cent.

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One of the great U.S. coin rarities, the 1894-S dime, will be offered in Stack’s 72nd anniversary auction Oct. 16-17 in New York City.

It is joined by several other rarities  such as the documented fourth double eagle struck at the Denver Mint, certified by Professional Coin Grading Service as SP-66, an 1876-CC 20-cent piece and an 1855 Kellogg and Co. $50 proof.

Stack’s 72nd anniversary sale is preceded on Oct. 16 by two offerings of material from the John J. Ford collection, Parts 20 and 21. The first, nearly 400 lots, holds paper money, including obsolete notes, greatest representation of these being from western states though notes from several other locations are offered. It also features patterns and medals from western assayers, as well as several assayer receipts.

By Greg Reynolds for Numismaster

Doyle New York, an art and collectibles auction firm in Manhattan, now has an active coin division. This firm’s auction on Sept. 18 was conducted in its gallery at 175 E. 87th St. The most valuable coin in the sale, at $162,000, was a round Panama-Pacific Expo commemorative $50 gold coin that has been graded MS-66 by the Numismatic Guaranty Corp. A second 1915-S round Pan-Pac $50, NGC-graded MS-65, brought $108,000. There were 276 lots in the auction, of which just two did not sell. The average price per lot was more than $8,500, but there were more than 40 lots that realized less than $1,000 each.

(Newport Beach, California) – The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) announced today that PCGS World Coin Population ReportsSM would be offered free of charge to all visitors to the PCGS website at www.pcgs.com/pop.

PCGS began offering electronic population data for world coins in November 2006 as part of a paid subscription to the PCGS Population ReportSM . Previously, world coin collectors were unable to obtain this valuable information in any form, printed or otherwise. (more…)