Welcome to Something About Coins! Still more stories are circulating about the 2010 Lincoln Cent launch, news of upcoming 2010 quarters surfaced, and bloggers talked about rare gold coins.
Numismatic News commented on U.S. Mint Director Moy's tenacity to ensure the Lincoln cent debut on Thursday the 11th. He had to fly out of Washington, DC on Tuesday night. Excessive snow shut down area airports afterwards. Coin Collector's Blog had a good nine minute video about Thursday's cent launch in Springfield and some of it included the U.S. Mint drawing and making the pennies. The State Journal-Register in Springfield, IL talked about the profit of canceled penny rolls. Collectors interviewed for the article at the ceremony talked about what they've done with other canceled coin rolls. World Mint Coins said the premiums on cent rolls on eBay are $20 if the rolls were canceled in Springfield.
CoinNews.net reported on the America the Beautiful Quarters program, which was discussed at the coin forum hosted by the U.S. Mint on the eve of the penny launch ceremony. The first 2010 quarter will probably launch the third week of April, and the five ounce silver version will be paper thin due to its required three inch diameter, according to answers given by U.S. Mint Director Moy.
John Dale wrote about the New Orleans Mint in his Heritage Blog on Monday. A 1909-O half eagle graded MS-63 by NGC will be auctioned in March in Fort Worth, and the coin is one of the last coins minted in New Orleans. The mint closed that same year, in 1909.
Doug Winter listed some rare varieties of early gold coins in his market blog last week. The 1798 Close Date and Wide Date quarter eagles and 1825 Close Fraction and Distant Fraction quarter eagles were a few in the article, and half eagles from the 1790's rounded out the rest. Each variety was described along with the number of known pieces.
Paul M. Green covered Seated Liberty half dimes in a recent post on Numismaster.com. Christian Gobrecht designed the seated liberty coins, and the first year it was used on the half dime was 1837. Its final year was 1873. Green said an 1837 MS-60 with the large date is going for $640, and its value jumps in MS-65 to $3,650. He gave several other examples, types, grades and values, as well as mintage numbers.
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