Silver Sales Record, Walking Liberty, 1907 UHR Double Eagle
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by KJ in Auctions, Rare Coins, US Mint
Welcome back to Something About Coins! Here are a few of the interesting numismatic stories I found on the web.
CoinNews.net reported the bullion gold and silver October sales records. American Buffalo bullion gold coins had their best October ever, since 116,500 coins were sold. Their release was only October 15 - that's two weeks of sales and quite a record. The article also covers silver, but SilverCoinsToday.com, goes into more detail. During this year's best October for American Silver Eagles, the Mint sold 2,939,000, and that was more than double the second best October, which was 1,425,000 in 2008. Another milestone reported in the article is the American Silver Eagle 2009 annual sales of 23,406,500. That means 2009 is already the best year ever for the silver bullion coins.
Speaking of silver, popular Walking Liberty half dollars were featured on CoinValuesOnline.com. Some of the values given were the 1921-S in AU-58 was $12K, a brilliant 1918-D in MS-62 by NGC was $2,185, and a 1941-S in MS-65 was $1K.
Last week, I mentioned a Confederate Cent being auctioned in the upcoming Stack's 74th Anniversary Sale that is scheduled for next week, Nov. 9-11, in Baltimore, MD. Well, that's not the last tidbit about the auction. This morning, CoinLink.com published a lengthy press release from Stack's. The highlight of the auction will be an UHR Double Eagle Pattern coin. Stack's believes this coin is one of the first UHR Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles struck in mid-February of 1907 with Barber's 1906 raised edge lettering. There is a star in between each letter, E*P*L*U*R*I*B*U*S*U*N*U*M*. Also, the edge letters are “inverted”, meaning they are upside down if examined when the coin is horizontal with the obverse up. Images of the coin and its edge are in the article.
Another 1907 UHR Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle is in the news. The finest known specimen, graded PR-69 by PCGS, will be on display at the Santa Clara, California Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo, Nov. 19 - 22nd. The coin is insured for $5 million.
I didn't have time to write about all of the good coin articles, so I'll have to catch up in tomorrow's blog. See you later!
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yeah, Gold is still have trust of investor to invest. The gold maket has mostly been high as compared to others and even if fluctuations occur I don’t think it ll be very significant.Thanks for the great reading, we buy gold in a recession. I will pass this on to our ira clients to read