Welcome back to Something About Coins! Below are eight coin articles covering recently minted coins, 1920's Peace dollars, and early copper cents.
Boy Scouts Silver Dollar Sales: Proof 3% from Sellout, Uncirculated Falls, CoinNews.net
The latest coin sales figures for the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollars have been released by the United States Mint. Their new weekly gain of 951 is down from last week’s 8,007 increase. Not helping the numbers was a negative shift for the uncirculated ... Click for coin article
Mint strikes fractional Eagles, NumismaticNews.net
Production has started for the half-ounce, quarter ounce and tenth-ounce American Eagle gold bullion coins. This can be taken as another sign that supply and demand are more closely balanced this year than last when the gold fractional coins did not go on sale to the Mint's ... Click for coin article
Dollar Represents Longing for Peace, NumisMaster.com
The Peace silver dollar design was initially proposed as a commemorative, yet it would never have been produced at all were it not for the fact that the United States had melted so many silver dollars that it ran into issues of having enough coins to be the backing for Silver Certificates ... Click for coin article
Stack’s Official Auction for Nashville Expo 2010, WhitmanCoinCollecting.com
U.S. coins and the Q. David Bowers Reference Collection of Confederate States of America bonds highlight the Official Auction for the first-ever Whitman Coin & Collectibles Nashville Expo, May 21, 2010. The Nashville Sale gets underway at 6:30 pm in Meeting Rooms ... Click for coin article
Conservation Showcase: 1875 Cent, NCScoin.com
Conserving copper coins, as opposed to coins made of other metals, can bring a whole different set of questions and concerns to the conserving table. Of the most commonly used metals for coin production, copper is the most reactive to the environment and as a result ... Click for coin article
Collecting Problems: U.S. Mint Faces a Coin Cost Dilemma, DailyFinance.com
A recent move by the Obama administration may lighten wallets across the country -- but not in a bad way. According to The Wall Street Journal, the White House is considering proposals that would alter the metallic composition of America's pocket change to make it ... Click for coin article
What Makes Cents to Me Doesn't Make Cents to Everyone, HuffingtonPost.com
The debate about whether or not the penny should continue to be produced and used in this country has been an ongoing one, but never did I realize that I held such a passionate opinion until I witnessed a new friend toss one into a garbage pail. I was walking ahead of him ... Click for coin article
Top 10 Most Valuable U.S. Coins Found in Pocket Change, Coins.About.com
There are a number of fairly valuable U.S. error coins and die varieties in circulation today. These coins are overlooked by people because they have small distinguishing characteristics, such as a modest doubling of the coin image, or minute differences in the size or ... Click for coin article
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