Welcome back to Something About Coins! The U.S. Mint will release their silver America the Beautiful bullion coins next Monday, December 6, and a display of a 1943 bronze cents set will be at the next FUN Show in January. Starter kits containing all the new Estonian euro coins were launched, and the Royal Mint is commemorating Coronation Street, a prime-time soap opera, with a series of medals. Enjoy!
America the Beautiful 5 Ounce Silver Bullion Coins Release Details, CoinNews.net
The United States Mint today announced the release date for this year's 5 ounce .999 fine America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins®. It also revealed that collector uncirculated versions would be available, and the mintage splits for each 2010 coin. The investment-grade bullion coins will be released on Monday, December 6, 2010. Each of the five 2010 America the Beautiful Bullion Coins will have a maximum mintage of 33,000 for a combined production run of 165,000. US Mint Director Ed Moy during a coin forum in February had suggested the ... Click for coin article
2011 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin Design Candidates, SilverCoinsToday.com
With the inaugural 2010 America the Beautiful 5 ounce Silver Bullion Coins due to make their appearance at any moment, now is a good time to consider next year's issues within the same program. Known as the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin® Program, the new year's lineup will continue the series that honors sites of national interest from around the United States and its territories. Each America the Beautiful coin in the program will be struck from five ounces of .999 fine silver with current law requiring them to be three inches in diameter ... Click for coin article
PCGS, Legend Host First Exhibit of Unique 1943 Bronze Cents Set at FUN Show, PCGS.com
The first-ever public display of the one-of-a-kind set of 1943 bronze Lincoln cents from the Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco Mints will be hosted by Professional Coin Grading Service and Legend Numismatics, Inc. during the first three days of the Florida United Numismatists convention in Tampa, Florida, January 6, 7 and 8, 2011. The unprecedented exhibit marks the first time the complete set has been included in the PCGS Set RegistrySM. It also marks the fulfillment of a boyhood dream of the collector who owns the coins, Texas business ... Click for coin article
Sale of Estonian Euro Coin Starter Kits Started Today, estonianfreepress.com
Today, branches of commercial banks and offices of Eesti Post started selling starter kits that contain all the Estonian euro coins so that residents of Estonia could familiarise themselves with the new coins. Starting from today it is also possible to exchange kroons for euro banknotes at the central rate and without a service fee. Both the starter kits and the exchange of euro banknotes are intended for natural persons. One starter kit costs 200 kroons and it is possible to purchase up to five starter kits at a time. The starter kit consists of 42 euro coins worth ... Click for coin article
Many Factors Determine Coin Value, NumisMaster.com
I saw the same coin as mine on the Internet, and it's worth more than you just told me it's worth! Wow. How often I hear that statement from people who have coins to sell, but who aren't collectors. Apparently in their minds if the coin they viewed is even remotely similar to their coin, then their coin must be worth the same amount by association. Of course, the coin they saw on the Internet was likely some unusually high grade specimen, something similar but not identical to their coin, or a coin artificially bid to a high price by a cyberspace shill. Trying to ... Click for coin article
Royal Mint commemorates Coronation Street's 50th anniversary with special edition coins, dailymail.co.uk
The Royal Mint has for the first time immortalised soap characters into a commemorative coin. Six special-edition medals featuring the five 'Queens' of Coronation Street have been made to mark Coronation Street's 50th anniversary. The sixth coin features the Street's famous watering hole, The Rovers Return, with the unmistakable cobbled streets outside. Coronation Street legends Vera Duckworth, Hilda Ogden, Bet Gilroy, Deirdre Barlow and current Rovers barmaid Becky McDonald have been joined by their on-screen husbands on a series of meticulously ... Click for coin article
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