Coin Collecting

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As Doug Winter has written before, he like coins with what he calls “multiple levels of demand.” What this means is a coin that is sought by a number of different sorts of collectors. His latest article examines “Five Rare Date Gold Coins With Broad Appeal”

Stacks completed its Altanta Auction on May 18th as part of the Whitman Atlanta Expo. At the sale, Gold Rarities Soared. Here is a summary of the sale with a number of the highlights.

The US Mint announced that collectors may begin placing their orders for bags and rolls of Guam commemorative quarter-dollar coins on May 26, at noon Eastern Time. The bags and rolls contain general circulating quality coins struck on the production floors at the United States Mint facilities at Denver and Philadelphia.

It’s been a longstanding tradition of Doug Winter to write a What’s Hot/What’s Not blog a few times a year. The last time he did this was, I believe, around the beginning of 2009. A lot has changed since then and, as we head into the summer, I’d like to share my thoughts about the coin market in general and United States gold coins to be more specific.

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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Doug Winter has posted a New article on some thought about Third Party Certification and PCGS  hiring a new grader. He says “I’ve used this forum in the past as a venue to criticize the grading services. So, it’s only fair to give credit where credit is due and congratulate PCGS on their new hire as a grader, Charlie Browne.”

Award-winning numismatic author Scott Travers and veteran financial journalist Jim Kingsland will present a detailed, three-hour public educational forum about buying and selling gold on Saturday, May 30, 2009, during the Long Beach Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo in the Long Beach

International variety will be the name of the game at Heritage Auction Galleries Long Beach World Coin Auction , May 28-29 and 31, with an exceedingly rare 1770 Nuevo Reino Pillar Dollar anchoring the country and continent spanning collection.

The graders at Dominion Grading Service were very excited to receive some high powered submissions lately, including five numismatic gold rarities.

Another Unusual Item: Experimental Alluminum Alloy 1942 Cent Judd-2079. The pattern cents from 1942 are divided into two groups, those of the regular issue design and those modeled after the Colombian two centavo. Find out more about this rare pattern.

NGC is introducing two new certification services for coins that derive their value primarily from their metal content. They are NGC Certified Gold and NGC Authenticated Bullion.

A new Unusual items post: Heritage is auctioning off a 1836 Gobrecht Dollar, Judd-63 Name Below Base, Starless Obverse and Reverse. Extremely Rare, One of Only Three Known, The Farouk-Baldenhofer Specimen.

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) has launched phase two of a coordinated plan to challenge import restrictions on ancient coins by the US State Department. bu importing asmall packet of 23 very common, inexpensive, Cypriot and Chinese coins. The coins were seized and the ACCG plans to sue.

Heritage Auction Galleries has announced that noted numismatist Win Callender has joined the company as a Professional Numismatist and Consignment Director at its Uptown Dallas headquarters.

Laura Sperber of Legend Numismatics provides another Market Report. She states “In our opinion, the coin market right now is like the stock market was in late March” Read it and judge for yourself.

The status of the 1856-O double eagle as the rarest New Orleans twenty, from a paltry mintage of 2,250 pieces, was established as long ago. Heritage is auctioning off the only known Specimen example known. Many specialists believe that this is the single most important New Orleans double eagle in existence, and one of the most important O-mint coins of any denomination.

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Greg Johnson wrote a short article in Volume 5, Issue 5 (May 2009) of The E-Gobrecht titled “1849 Quarter Dollar Date Positions“. During the past two plus years I have examined every 1849 quarter that I could find trying to attribue one he purchases. Here is his ” working hypothesis”.

Tim Shuck has added 3 new coin profiles in the Coin Guide Section of Coinlink as follows:

• Braided Hair Cent, 1839-1857
• Standing Liberty Quarter, Type 1, 1916-1917
• Indian Head Quarter Eagle, 1908-1929

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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You’re a serious coin collector. You’ve done all the “right” things. You’ve learned how to grade, become a knowledgeable specialist. Your collection is well on the way to being complete but you aren’t ready to sell it. What can you do in the interim to add value to it? Doug Winter gives some pointers in his article on How To “Brand” Your Coin Collection

Ponterio & Associates, Inc. held the Official Auction of the Chicago International Coin Fair (C.I.C.F.), April 23-25, 2009. The auction realized a total of $1,510,300 offering close to 3,000 lots of coins and currency from around the world

The United States Mint will present the second redesigned one-cent coin (penny), bearing an image representing Abraham Lincoln’s formative years, at a ceremony in Indiana on May 14.

While the Adams-Carter 1804 $1 grabbed the headlines at Platinum Night of the Heritage CSNS auctions, the overall success of both the rare coins and the rare currency is the hidden story in the whole night. Even if you take out the $2.3 million on the 1804 $1, you still have an almost $42 million auction.

Laura Sperber provides a Market Report on the CSNS Show just concluded this past weekend. She states “Nice fresh coins are clearly still selling and are bringing super strong money. The biggest problem-actually our biggest problem, nice coins can NOT be replaced and we do not see any where enough of them to make money with.”

The famed Quartermaster Collection, containing many of Australia’s most valuable and highest quality gold coins, will be going to auction on the 4th of June 2009, in what is expected to be the most prestigious numismatic event in this nations history.

Featuring many of Australia’s rarest coins, this Auction will be unlike any other seen in Australia.

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Bruce Lorich the renowned expert on British coinage (Hammered and Milled) provides a bit of historical background and insight on the Rise of the Gold Standard in 14th-century England, Coins of the first three Edwards & Richard II.

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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