Welcome back to Something About Coins! I've collected several coin articles from all over and linked them below. Information about Boy Scout coins, the coin shortage in the Philippines, and gold coins from the S.S. Central America shipwreck are just a few of the topics.
Boy Scouts Coin Sales Hit 76% of Maximum, Values Top $100, CoinNews.net
The 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollars premiered from the US Mint just two weeks ago and not surprisingly, mintage limits are fast approaching and the secondary market is already seeing a decent trade in these commemorative strikes. Customers were initially able to place orders for the Boy Scout coins beginning on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The first few hours of availability saw troublesome issues for those trying to complete their transactions, both via the Mint’s website and ... Click to read coin article
BSP outsources coin production abroad, MB.com.ph
To ensure there will be no shortage in coins, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has outsourced coin production to two more foreign mint makers in Canada and the US. Based on documents, BSP expects coin blanks shipments from Jarden Zinc Product and Royal Canadian Mint this June to augment the production of BSP’s in-house minting plant in Quezon City. Royal Canadian Mint is Canada’s main coin producer while Jarden Zinc is an American coinage company which has a capacity to produce ... Click to read coin article
Coin Monday: Personal Treasures from the S.S. Central America, Heritage Blog
There are certain stories that will be told and retold for as long as there are collectors of U.S. coinage. The sinking of the S.S. Central America, with its lost gold and lost lives, has enough financial and personal tragedy to endure for centuries. Yet for decades the disaster faded from memory, not quickly but with the slow erosion of waves on a rock, as ships such as the Titanic and the Lusitania took on more meaning. When the Central America’s gold was re-discovered, so too was its story, and the long-forgotten details ... Click to read coin article
April Santa Clara Expo set, NumismaticNews.net
The next Santa Clara Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo will be held in the Santa Clara, Calif., Convention Center April 9-11. Millions of dollars of vintage collectibles will be on view and for sale on the convention floor. Open to the public, more than 400 dealers will be buying and selling rare coins, paper money, postage stamps, postcards, autographs, historical documents, antiques, estate jewelry and vintage sports cards. A gold coin door prize will be given away to a visitor each day of the three-day show ... Click to read coin article
Coin like one of the '30 pieces of silver' paid to betray Jesus part of Azalea Festival display, StarNewsOnline.com
Ancient coins bearing the symbols of King Herod and Pontius Pilate. A Temple tribute coin like one of the “30 pieces of silver” paid to Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus. A real “Widow’s Mite.” These are just some of the items from a special exhibit of coins from the Bible to be displayed this weekend as part of the Azalea Festival Coin Show April 10-11. “It’s so amazing to hold a coin that old,” said Jacquie Flanigan, an officer in the Lower Cape Fear Coin Club, which has sponsored the show during each ... Click to read coin article
The Best Values in Todays Rare Coin Market, RareGoldCoins.com
There are many issues that face collectors in the coin market of 2010. A lack of quality coins is driving many collectors to seek new areas of specialization. Both PCGS and NGC have recently added “plus” grades which will no doubt change certain areas of the market as well. More than ever, collectors are gravitating towards areas that offer value. The days of new collectors and uninformed wealthy investors arbitrarily throwing money at plastic rarities are over and we appear to be back to a collector-oriented market ... Click to read coin article
Medal Of Honor Society honors Carney, StrausNews.com
Rep. Chris Carney (D-PA-10) has received an Award of Appreciation from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society for his efforts to pass into law The Medal of Honor Commemorative Coin Act of 2009. He was honored last week for introducing and successfully guiding a bill through the House together with Congressman Mark Kirk of Illinois. The bill, introduced a year ago by Congressman Carney and Congressman Kirk, was signed into law by the president late last year. It will require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins ... Click to read coin article
France Continues to Wow With 2010 Collection, Numismaster.com
Monnaie de Paris, the French Mint, recently revealed its plans for 2010, which will continue on the logic it introduced to its issues in 2009. When Christophe Beaux was placed at the helm of the French institution by newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy in April 2007, the centuries-old organization was in difficulties and had a somewhat confusing approach. Indeed, Monnaie de Paris was issuing silver 1/4-euro coins that were 30 mm in diameter and weighed 13.0 grams, silver 1-1/2-euro coins 37 mm in ... Click to read coin article
Garage 'haunted by coin-throwing ghost', Telegraph.co.uk
Nick White said the spectre has materialised several times in the building, which was originally a chapel and served as a makeshift mortuary during World War II. He claimed it has moved around piles of tyres during the night while the garage, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was locked. Two pre-war coins have also mysteriously turned up on the garage floor, and Mr White believes they were left by the ghosts, which has been seen wearing 1940s dress. Mr White found the first of the old penny pieces, dated 1936 and ... Click to read coin article
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