Welcome back to Something About Coins! The U.S. Mint released the Mary Lincoln First Spouse gold coins and her bronze medal yesterday. Dave Harper suggested a copy of Coin Digest could aid one collector in counterfeit coin detection, and NGC released their new online Coin Price Guide. Some coin buying suggestions and a request for help recovering stolen gold, silver, and rare coins wrap up today's coin news. Enjoy!
Mary Todd Lincoln First Spouse Gold Coins Issued, CoinNews.net
The United States Mint on Thursday, December 2, launched the new Mary Todd Lincoln First Spouse Gold Coins. The $10 denominated coins are struck from one-half ounce of 24 karat (.9999 fine) gold and are offered in collector proof and uncirculated conditions. The initial selling price of the proof version is $854 while the uncirculated option is priced at $841. US Mint First Spouse Gold Coin prices are subject to change weekly, according to the US Mint gold coin pricing policy which links the London Fix market price of gold to the selling price of the ... Click for coin article
Scary photos and it's not Halloween, blog.numismaticnews.net
What's scarier, experts who have a difficult time detecting an especially good Chinese counterfeit, or people who call themselves average collectors who can't spot a badly done fake when it is in their hands? I think it is the latter. There are more of them. I received a letter and a packet of photos. In it, the writer tells the story about having gotten the whole group for just $20. He sent them to me. He wants F. Michael Fazzari, an authenticator who writes a Numismatic News column to take a look at them. The photos are of early American coins. They ... Click for coin article
NGC Launches New Coin Price Guide, NGCcoin.com
Powerful resource includes over five years of historical data and dynamic charting tools. Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has released a new online price guide, the NGC Coin Price Guide, powered by NumisMedia. The price guide is now available to all NGC website visitors for free at www.NGCcoin.com. It includes five years of accurate coin pricing data for nearly all US coins, and collectors can analyze coin prices using dynamic graphing tools and ranking filters. Many of these features are entirely new to the numismatic marketplace ... Click for coin article
If Buying Gold Bullion, Make it High Grade, NumisMaster.com
The price of gold is at record highs. Confidence in the dollar is dropping and demand for small size foreign bullion coins continues to rise. Perhaps those of you who are putting away some of these pieces in case of economic hard times might consider an alternate approach to your investment plans. You may like to form a gold coin collection of various type pieces from different countries or assemble a date set of British sovereigns in the best condition you can find. This will be no easy task because for years the small quarter ounce coins from various countries ... Click for coin article
Search for value buying opportunities, NumismaticNews.net
I am a value buyer. When at shows, dealers will come by with boxes/sets of coins to offer. I mention this really as an indication of the opportunity that exists in the current coin market with the strong rise in precious metals. As a value buyer, I look at anything in terms of what it will bring at current prices and whether it is interesting and salable in a reasonable time. Now I think most of us agree that metals are a good investment in current times of economic strife and will continue to be until those issues are solved. They will be solved eventually either through ... Click for coin article
Missing: Gold, silver and rare coins, pressherald.com
A suspect's suicide in Maine complicates attempts by police to track down the stolen items. A detective from Massachusetts is trying to track down thousands of dollars worth of stolen gold, silver and rare coins that may be in southern Maine, but the person who knew where to find them is dead. The man who was accused of stealing $75,000 in collectible coins and jewelry from a home in Wayland, Mass., killed himself after he was arrested by sheriff's deputies and state drug agents in a hotel room in Edgecomb on Sept. 30. Alexander Farnsworth, 25, was ... Click for coin article
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