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Coin News for April 24, 2010
The ANA and PCGS Offering a Summer Seminar Scholarship
PCGS
The American Numismatic Association and the Professional Coin Grading Service are jointly offering tuition, meals, lodging and airfare for three lucky PCGS Set Registry™ members to attend a week-long session of the popular ANA Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs, Colorado this year. But you have to act quickly; the deadline to enter the contest is only a couple weeks away. The scholarship program is open to all participants in the PCGS Set Registry, according to BJ Searls, Set Registry Manager. “Winners will be selected based on their set display. To enter, submit a self-nominating email to setregistry@collectors.com with a brief description of 200 words or less about why you should be selected for a scholarship. Be sure to include the name of your set and a link to it in the Registry,” Searls said.
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ANA Seeking Numismatic Theatre Proposals
ANA
American Numismatic Association members are encouraged to share their ideas and research with fellow hobbyists by delivering a Numismatic Theatre presentation at the 2010 ANA World’s Fair of Money, August 10-14 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Numismatic Theatre consists of 30-40 minute presentations on a wide range of topics, and is a great opportunity for collectors to discuss their creativity, expertise and collections with the numismatic community. Many talks focus on topics pertaining to the convention’s host city or region. Presentations from previous shows include “Women in Power, on Coins & in Art,” “A Tale of Ten Mexican Coins” and “Money in Olde New York.”
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2010 Roosevelt Dimes Appear in Circulation
Mint News Blog
The first 2010 Roosevelt Dimes have apparently started showing up in the channels of circulation. At least two eBay sellers have individual 2010-P Roosevelt Dimes listed for sale at auction. As of the last available production figures from the United States Mint, only 19 million of the 2010 Roosevelt Dimes have been produced, with the entire amount coming from the Philadelphia Mint facility. There have not been any 2010 Roosevelt Dimes produced at Denver. Additionally, there have not been any 2010 Jefferson Nickel produced at either mint facility.
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The Colonial Coinage of Spanish America
Daniel Frank Sedwick
Coins in the traditional sense became a reality in the New World shortly after Columbus claimed it for Spain in 1492. Well before the great riches of the New World could be converted to coinage, as early as 1505 the mainland Spanish mints of Seville and Burgos began minting a series of silver and copper coins (now quite rare) specifically for delivery to and use in the colonies. (While technically products of mainland Spain, for practical purposes we list these coins here under Santo Domingo, now within the Dominican Republic on the large Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which was believed to be the primary recipient in this importation for New World use only.) It was not until 1536, at Mexico City, that a new mint would issue the first coins actually struck in the Americas.
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The Ten Best $100 or Less Coins
Numismaster
If asked to define type coins, or type coin collecting, Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. might have responded, “Type coins are what you collect if you want a representative of a particular coin type or design but can’t afford to buy one of each date or date/mintmark combination. Of course, that’s not how I’ve formed my collection.” As you probably know, Eliasberg “finished the only complete collection ever formed containing every date and mintmark of United States coin.…” For the rest of us, however, putting together a complete collection of all U.S. coins is not an option. So what do you do if you like a particular design, but one or more examples of the type is prohibitively expensive? You form what is called a “type collection.” That is, you purchase an example of the least expensive date in the series.
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U.S. Mint DC and Territories Quarter Sales Conclude
Coin Update News
Earlier this week, the United States Mint concluded sales for the Northern Mariana Islands Quarter numismatic bags and rolls. This was the final quarter released in the one year District of Columbia & United States Territories Quarters Program. For each of the six quarters released in 2009, the United States Mint had offered five different options under their line of numismatic bags and rolls. A two roll set was offered, priced at $32.95, which included one 40-coin roll from the Philadelphia Mint and one 40-coin roll from the Denver Mint. Additionally, there were 100-coin or 1,000-coin bags offered from either the Philadelphia or Denver mint facility. These were priced at $32.95 for the smaller size and $309.95 for the larger size.
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About the Author
Tim Shuck is a life-long Midwestern resident, and started collecting coins after finding an Indian Head cent on the ground at his childhood farm home. Additional encouragement came from looking through a collection of well-worn late 19th and early 20th century coins kept by his grandfather in an old leather coin purse. Current collecting interests include U.S. types from the Civil War era through the early 1930's, and Colonial and Early American coins.
