A Real Genuine Fake
by Bill Blocher – The Ledger
So there I was, innocently watching one of those quasi-news, more opinion on one of the 24-hour talk networks, when this commercial comes on.The guy narrating the ad was selling a replica of a $50 gold piece minted by the U.S. government more than 100 years ago. According to the pitch man, the government made only two before deciding it wasn’t a good idea.
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Mint Master’s coin offered for sale
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Proof 1930 Australian copper penny is internationally renowned as the most valuably copper coin of the modern era through its exceptional quality and the circumstances of its striking. One of the original six pennies has just been offered for private sale, expected to sell for around two million dollars. However some experts have questioned the coin’s advertised provenance as the Mint Master’s coin.
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District of Columbia Official First Day Coin Cover Available April 14
US Mint
The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the District of Columbia Official First Day Coin Cover on April 14, 2009, at noon Eastern Time (ET). Production is limited to 25,000 units. Priced at $14.95 each, the District of Columbia Official First Day Coin Cover features two District of Columbia commemorative quarter-dollar coins, one each bearing the mint mark from the United States Mint facilities at Philadelphia and Denver.
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Curious Note is Desirable Collectible
By Fred Reed, Coins Magazine
Small-denomination notes of the Civil War that were once wartime waifs are now princely paper and highly desired collectibles. These notes resulted from a specie shortage, as wartime hoarding soaked up the available supply of gold and silver coins in the first year of the war. Gold coins commanded a premium over their face value: 3 percent in January 1862. Brokers quoted the premium at 4-3/4 percent in early February.
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Buyer’s market emerges
By Mark Ferguson for COIN VALUES
It’s no secret that in this economy many people need to liquidate assets, including rare coins. We’re in a buyers’ market, cash is scarce and demand has fallen considerably since just six months ago, except for many common date gold coins. The five-year-long bull market ended last year and many prices have suffered since.
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PCGS Launches Price Guide for Territorial Coins
PCGS
What is my Territorial coin worth? Well, if you would have asked this question ten years ago, two years ago or even last week, we would have said good luck in finding pricing information or anyone who can assist you. The reason? Very few experts keep track of the Territorial coin market. In response, PCGS Founder David Hall and several other numismatic experts in territorial coins have all worked together and compiled the ultimate Price Guide for Territorial Coins!
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THOUGHTS ON ELECTONIC PUBLICATION OF NUMISMATIC INFORMATION
E-Sylum
The wave of electronic publications that rarely see paper is, I agree both inevitable and, on many fronts, beneficial (lower costs, fewer dead trees, less fossil fuels used to move tons of paper from here to there and back again, more portable as electronic book readers improve, etc.). There is at least one massive downside, however, that those of a bibliographic or researcher bent should keep in mind. Most of the electronic publications prepared for ephemeral consumption as hobbyist or trade periodicals, of whatever stripe, are unlikely to be available for long.
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