What’s New This Week……….

The results are in from Platinum Night at the Boston Worlds’ Fair of Money! Nearly $22.4 million of high quality rare coins changed in our Platinum Night festivities, with strong bidding being seen throughout. Overall, Heritage’s three Boston auctions are expected to realize over $40 million

The PCGS Coin Sniffer™, a process incorporating advanced technology for detecting foreign materials and other enhancements on a coin’s surface, will be used in two roll-out phases on all PCGS Secure Plus™ submissions with the first step beginning in September or October 2010.

In Doug Winter’s continuing series that has focused on the ten rarest coins in each denomination of United States gold coin struck from the late 1830’s to the early 1900’s, The next major denomination to discuss is the enigmatic Three Dollar gold piece.

Bowers and Merena Auctions realized an impressive $9.3 million at its Boston Rarities Sale on Aug. 7. The sale, conducted in two sessions with 1,750 lots, featured the rare condition census #4 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar, certified MS-64 by NGC, that sold for $1.2 million.

Greg Reynolds new article: Prooflike 1857-S Double Eagle Gold Coins from the Shipwreck of the S. S. Central America.”As far as I know, these fifty-seven are the only gold coins, of any type, that the PCGS has designated as Prooflike. and the ONLY DMPL Gold coins ever graded”

Official ANA World’s Fair Of Money Starts Today in Boston Featuring Amazing and Historically Significant Numismatic Exhibits. More than 1,100 of the nation’s best coin dealers with the best inventory of coins, paper money, medals, tokens and other numismatic items will gather in Boston August 10-14 at the Hynes Convention Center for the largest coin show in the world.

Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds Coin Rarities & Related Topics: 1794 Silver Dollar sells for $1,207,500, and More Auction News ” comment upon the prices realized for three rarities in the August 2010 B&M auction that I discussed in recent columns.

The United States Mint today announced that seven new artists have been selected to participate in the Artistic Infusion Program (AIP) as Associate Designers. The AIP began in 2003 to help enrich and invigorate the design of U.S. coins and medals.

The Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) presented its outstanding achievement awards for 2010 during the PNG Day banquet held in Boston, Massachusetts on August 9, 2010.
Patrick Heller of Liberty Coin Service in Michigan was given the Abe Kosoff Founders Award , David Hall, President of Collectors Universe, Inc. and a co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, received the PNG Significant Contribution Award……..

The United States Mint today announced that it will begin sales of the one-ounce >2010 American Eagle Platinum Proof Coin at noon Eastern Time (ET) on August 12, 2010. The 2010 coin features the second reverse (tails side) design in the six-year “Preamble Series” program introduced in 2009.

Greg Reynolds offers up the second part of his series on Dr. Steven Duckor’s All Time Finest Barber Half Dollar Collection. “Here in part 2, the historical and cultural importance of this set will be analyzed, with references to other landmark sets of Barber Halves.”

The United States Mint today announced that it will begin sales of the one-ounce 2010 American Eagle Platinum Proof Coin at noon Eastern Time (ET) on August 12, 2010. The 2010 coin features the second reverse (tails side) design in the six-year “Preamble Series” program introduced in 2009.

Doug Winter has posted the third part of a series titled San Francisco Double Eagles: A Date by Date Analysis. “In 1877, a third type of double eagle was created when the reverse valuation was changed from TWENTY D to TWENTY DOLLARS. Liberty Head double eagles were produced with just one interruption (1886) from 1877 through 1907. ”

NEW & UPDATED – Our coverage of rare coin and currency news has expanded with Tim Shuck taking over as Editor of Coin News Daily. This is a special section of CoinLink where we scour the web for items of interest related to numismatics and post a short excerpt and link to these “off site” resources.

We have also made changes to The Bullion Report with daily news and article updates, and a monthly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.

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