U.S. Mint tries to get consumers to use dollar coins
USA Today
The government is trying to convince consumers that dollar coins are greener than the dollar bill. The U.S. Mint is spending about $12 million on a pilot project to promote the presidential dollar coin by appealing to Americans’ duty to protect the environment while saving the government money. The campaign, which may be expanded nationwide, stresses that coins last longer than dollar bills, are recyclable and could save tax money if more people used them.
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2008-W Platinum Eagles Back on Sale
Mint News Blog
After nearly two and a half months of suspension and speculation on both sides of question, 2008-W Uncirculated and Proof Platinum Eagles are back on sale at the US Mint. The coins had been suspended since August 7, when the price of platinum was $1,559 per ounce. The pricing for the products had been set earlier in the year when platinum was closer to its highs above the $2,000 level.
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ANA school honors Schook
Numismatic News
Florence Schook had a passion for numismatic education.That passion will be honored with the American Numismatic Association’s establishment of the Florence Schook School of Numismatics and a three-year fund-raising goal of $4.5 million.The ANA board took the action during a meeting Oct. 14 in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Creating the Florence Schook School of Numismatics forever honors the one person who, arguably, has had the greatest individual impact on Young Numismatists in American Numismatic Association history,” stated the proposal presented to the board.
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Coins Stay Strong as Stock Market Routed
By David L. Ganz, Numismatic News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average October plummet and the worldwide consequences of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy and its stock going from a 52-week high of more than $50 to a low of about eight cents a share, has brought unparalleled activity in the numismatic market. It has also in the face of wild price swings made rare coins appear to be the pillar of stability.
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Rewarding Proof Set Find: 1990 S Doubled Die Obverse Jefferson Nickel
NGC
Modern coin variety hunters love nothing more than to discover a sought-after rarity in an original US Mint packaged set. For that reason, one of the most compelling sets around is the 1990 Proof Set. Three different noteworthy varieties can be found within it. First the hunter will look at the Lincoln Cent to make sure it has a mintmark. The 1990 “No S” Lincoln Cent, which lacks the “S” mintmark, is a very rare coin among advanced collectors.
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Silver Price Collapse Shows Silver is No Precious Metal
Market Oracle
Silver may be classed as a “Precious Metal” but it has certainly not received any special treatment these past few months, during which it has been sold down heavily along with most other commodities, in marked contrast to gold, which has held up well. We can see this at a glance by comparing the long-term charts for silver and the commodities index, which are stacked one above the other below for direct comparison. These charts make it abundantly clear that as far as the markets are concerned, silver is just another commodity.
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Gold coin and Rodgers Forge stories return
Baltimore Sun
Weeks later, and I’m still getting mail and phone calls about columns I wrote in September and August. Readers are still fascinated with the tale of Theodore Jones and Henry Grob, poor Baltimore teens who unearthed gold coins in the basement of an Eden Street tenement in 1934. What brought the story back from musty newspaper and legal archives was the recent publication of Leonard Augsburger’s Treasure in the Cellar: A Tale of Gold in Depression-Era Baltimore.
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Economic turbulence a boon for coin dealers
Star News Online
The state of the economy is actually helping coin dealers, Phil Kaufman says.Sitting behind his booth at the Lower Cape Fear Coin Club’s fall show on Saturday, the Wilmington-based coin dealer said the market for collectible coins is usually strong and steady. As for the more volatile gold and silver market in general, the fear over stocks is encouraging more people to buy those types of coins, Kaufman said. “There’s a lot of interest in gold and silver,” he said. “It seems to be a safe haven for people who have been going through financial difficulties. They’d rather have hard assets than paper stocks.”
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