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Modern Coins: The period from 1965 to 1967 was an interesting time in US numismatic history, which produced a number of rarities including a No-S Proof Coin Set to be offered by Heritage at CSNS

From the NGC series on Counterfeit Detection A basic lesson will help you always catch fakes, like the 1895-O Morgan Dollar, which could be deceptive to many.

Doug Winter’s article on the decade between 1834 and 1844 that was the beginning of the modern era at the United States mint. The second half of this decade was especially interesting, as a number of experiments and acts of legislation provided some of most attractive and popular issues in the history of American coinage.

NGC Posted a great story about Certifying a Family Heirloom: 1805 $5 Gold Coin. Although not a coin collector, Robert McGough found his way to John Albanese to assist in getting his “heirloom” authenticated and certified.

Beginning with this article: The 1863 $10 Gold Eagle, Doug Winter is going to focus on issues that he regards as “Forgotten Rarities.” These are coins that are truly rare but which, for a variety of reasons, do not get the fanfare that they deserve.

Change may be in the air at one or more coin grading services, but dealers, collectors and investors will find business as usual at Certified Acceptance Corp. (CAC). That’s the company’s message to the hobby in the wake of reports that at least one of the two largest grading services is considering the establishment of “premium-quality” grade designations.

The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Gold Coin and Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Bronze Medal on March 18, 2010

A possibly unique gold coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar will go on display at the British Museum today – the Ides of March, marking the 2,054th anniversary of his death.

NGC graders are fortunate to have seen more coins than anyone, but they always take time to appreciate truly special coins. The unexpected encounter with this 1872-CC $20 is one such example. It is the Highest Graded example known

Daniel Frank Sedwick will be holding Treasure and World Coin Auction #7 on Wednesday-Friday, April 7-9, 2010. In great deference to the Sedwick patriarch, for the first time ever we are offering selections from the Frank Sedwick study collection of 1715-Fleet gold cobs

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 weekly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.

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Two of the finest-known gold 1804 eagles have been added to the Museum Showcase at the 2010 ANA National Money Show™ in Fort Worth. The coins are part of the renowned Harry W. Bass Jr. Collection of American gold coins, and are on display at the ANA’s Edward C. Rochette Money Museum in Colorado Springs.

Bowers and Merena Auctions continues its long-standing and successful partnership with the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo. As Official Auctioneer of the March 2010 expo, Bowers and Merena realized more than $8.5 million in U.S. and foreign, coin and currency sales.

Dennis Hengeveld has penned a two part article on Collecting Date Sets of Liberty Seated Coinage. Part One covers Dollars and Half Dollars and Part Two covers Quarters Through Half Dimes From E-Gobrecht.

In the past few years, Doug Winter has noticed an interesting trend in relation to the pricing of rare date gold coins. He refers to this as “Value Compression” and explains what that means explain what I mean.

Odyssey Marine Exploration, pioneers in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, today reported full year 2009 financial results along with the status of all current projects underway.

The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony today in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center.

Tim Shuck submitted a great article on Pocket Change Yields an Unusual Find, an 1868 Three Cent Nickel

Greg Reynolds interviews Kris Oyster: For around thirty-five years, Mr. Kris Oyster has been a coin dealer and he is currently well known on the nationwide show circuit. As the managing director of numismatics for DGSE

Historic 1793 S-3 Chain Cent To Be Sold by Heritage. This Chain cent appeared on the April 1869 Levick plate, the first photographic plate of large cents that appeared in the American Journal of Numismatics. The Levick plate was also the first systematic attempt at the classification of large cent varieties.

Heritage Auction Galleries will present the astonishing Donald R. Frederick Collection of Early US Coinage: Bayside Part Two including 443 Bust Half Dollar varieties at the 2010 April-May Milwaukee, WI CSNS US Coin Auction, April 28-May 1 in Milwaukee.

Legend Numismatics is proud to announce the outright purchase of the Brian Sonnier Collection of colored dollars and CC GSA coins. Brian is a long time collector (known to many as GSAGUY). You may have seen him set up at shows back in the early to mid 90’s to just display his coins.

Doug Winter provides a Date by Date Analysis of Philadelphia No Motto Half Eagles From the 1840’s.

Executives of Professional Coin Grading Service will make their eagerly-anticipated announcement ( The Big One) about a revolutionary new service on Thursday, March 25, 2010.

Heidi Wastweet of Seattle, Washington was appointed to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) to fill the seat reserved for a specialist in medallic sculpture.

Laura Sperber of Legend Numismatics provides the latest Market Report: The March Baltimore Coin Show. Always insightful and bound to ruffle a few feathers.

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 weekly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.

You can access ALL the News Here

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Heritage Auctions is offering a “Dual Pedigreed” coin in Fort Worth, The Norweb-Bass MS66 1911-D Quarter Eagle.

Doug Winter provides some numismatic history on the The Stetson Collection Gold Coin Hoard

Tom Pillitowski noted that The Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has announced the addition of a new section to its registry for Early U.S. Gold Coins.

A company called Gold Solutions Marketing Inc.recently announced their new Gold Backed “credit card”, that is backed by gold bullion coins you have to deposit into an account.

Great article by Dr. Thomas F. Fitzgerald – Republished with Permission from The California Numismatist titled This 19th Century Cent Coin Design Lasted For Only One Year The Indian Head Cent of 1859

The Princeton University Numismatic Collection has acquired the Armenian Heritage Collection of ancient and medieval coins, adding a new strength to the University’s extensive numismatic research holdings.

Another E-Gobrecht article, this one from Ken Cable-Camilleis titled The Twenty-Five Most Overlooked Early Seated Coins. A Great read and resource for Seated collectors.

Tom DeLorey’s article on The Language of Coins – What is an Eagle?, provides a bit of numismatic history on ther origins and usage of the term.

Kathleen Duncan of Pinnacle-Rarities provides an overview and Introduction to Commemorative Coins

At the end of February 2010, Ira and Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles purchased England’s legendary King Edward VIII 1937 Proof Set for $2.1 Million (1,350,000 Pounds). This purchase was made in England with the assistance of noted English coin dealers Steve Fenton and Mark Rasmussen.

Doug Winter, doing more research on gold dollars for his upcoming third edition Dahlonega gold book, has some thoughts to share on his findings for the Type Two and Type Three Gold Dollar Dahlonega issues

David Lawrence Rare Coin Auctions will be offering 94 coins from the “Picky Collection” of Bust Coinage in a special 2-week Internet Auction #461 closing March 11th. This meticulous collection is the culmination of 25 years of numismatic searching.

The ANA Museum Showcase will make its National Money Show™ debut March 25-27 giving visitors a unique chance to see some of the world’s most beautiful and valuable coins, including three historic and beautiful 1879 Quintuple Stellas, the rare 1804 Draped Bust dollar, and the Walton 1913 Nickel.

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 weekly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.

You can access ALL the News Here