Welcome to Something About Coins! News of the U.S. Mint's Hot Springs quarter and the latest coin values are just a few of the stories posted below!
US Mint Sells 2010 Hot Springs National Park Quarters, CoinNews.net
The United States Mint today at noon ET began selling bags and rolls of Hot Springs National Park Quarters, the first coin issue in the U.S. Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters Program and the inaugural quarter-dollar in 2010. The offering kicks off the first of a series of events this week featuring the ... Click for coin article
Gold dominates Platinum, CoinValuesOnline.com
The upcoming Heritage Auction Galleries Platinum Night sale, to be held at the Central States Numismatic Society convention in Milwaukee on April 29, offers the next big test of the auction market. The contents of the auction also seem to confirm what many have observed over the past several months: that sellers are simply not offering ... Click for coin article
Coins more than business for dealer, Kansas.com
Jim Laubach's coin shop brings his business career full circle. As a 14-year-old, Laubach started making holders for coin collections out of his grandparents' basement, sometimes taking rare coins as payment. Then he spent decades building Century Manufacturing into the country's biggest producer of Lucite-embedded products ... Click for coin article
On the bright side of the coin, TheAustralian.com.au
One big beneficiary of the global financial crisis has been the rare coin market, according to Belinda Downie, the founder and managing director of dealer Coinworks. The sharemarket crash prompted many investors to look for alternative investments and their attention turned to rare coins. Even as the market ... Click for coin article
Coin Monday: One Cent, Two Cent, One Cent Planchet, HeritageAuctions.blogspot.com
Before I get to the coin part of today’s post ... From giant scaly winged monsters to other wrong things, Coin Monday is going back to errors. It’s a category that never lacks for variety at Heritage, and in the upcoming Central States U.S. Coin auction there are 77 different pieces in the Errors category. The coin that immediately caught my eye was lot 1585 ... Click for coin article
1917-S halves good value in top grades, NumismaticNews.net
As it turned out there were not one but two different 1917-S Walking Liberty half dollars. That is not all that unusual; however, what is unusual is that both 1917-S Walking Liberty half dollars are good and both are really special in top grades. In 1917, the designs that were first released in ... Click for coin article
Gold-Plated Contract or Real Gold?, NumisMaster.com
The price of a nickel is now six cents, that is, the metallic value of the copper and nickel in the U.S. five-cent piece is now worth six cents. Naturally actually melting and separating the 75 percent copper from the 25 percent nickel in the coin’s alloy costs some money to ... Click for coin article
Coin Collectors Call for Grassroots Response to DOS, PRNewswire.com
On May 6-7, the U.S. State Department's Cultural Property Advisory Committee will deliberate on a request for renewal of import restrictions on a variety of objects that Italy claims as State cultural heritage. The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) expects that, in this session, an attempt will be made to add coins to the list of restricted objects ... Click for coin article
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