Welcome back to Something About Coins! Today the U.S. Mint launched their last product of 2010, the Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin & First Spouse Medal Set. They have also scheduled a launch party next month for the 2011 Native American $1 Coin. 101 gold coins were seized by the government and transported to Texas. Also, some history on the first U.S. gold coins and tips for detecting a counterfeit 1914-D Buffalo Nickel are linked below. Enjoy!
Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin & First Spouse Medal Set Issued, CoinNews.net
The United States Mint on Thursday issued the Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin & First Spouse Medal Set for a price of $11.95. The product is the fourth and final release for the series this year and is expected to be the most popular. It is the seventeenth issued since the Presidential Dollar and First Spouse Coin Programs debuted in 2007. The Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin & First Spouse Medal Set includes and uncirculated Abraham Lincoln Presidential Dollar and a 1 5/16 inch bronze medal likeness of the Mary Told Lincoln First Spouse Gold Coin. The pair is mounted within ... Click for coin article
2011 Native American $1 Coin to Launch in Plymouth, Massachusetts, coincollectingnews.org
The United States Mint has chosen Plymouth, Massachusetts, as the site of its launch ceremony for the 2011 Native American $1 Coin. The public ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on January 12, 2011, at the Plimoth Plantation Henry Hornblower II Visitor Center. Following the event, attendees 18 years old and younger will receive a newly minted 2011 Native American $1 Coin, while others may exchange paper currency for rolls of the new coin. The Native American $1 Coin Program is authorized by Public Law 110-82, which requires the ... Click for coin article
101 gold coins recovered from convicted pharmacist, mysanantonio.com
State and federal authorities have recovered 101 gold coins linked to a San Antonio pharmacist who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for swindling more than $2 million from the Texas Medicaid program. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and an agent with the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General recovered the coins, worth $250,000, from an account belonging to the wife of convicted pharmacist Marcellius Jhekwuoba Anunobi, 46. The amount will be applied to the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program, Abbott ... Click for coin article
Golden Beginning: 1795 Marked First U.S. Gold Coins, NumisMaster.com
Prior to the American Revolution there was not all that much coined money in what is now the United States. There was some silver, mostly Spanish from mints such as Mexico City, but virtually no gold. What little gold did arrive in the Colonies came from the ships trading with the Spanish provinces in the Americas. The gold that did come to our shores usually left nearly as quickly. Merchants advertised in the newspapers to buy gold coins, usually with silver, and the coins thus gathered up were sent to Britain and the continent to pay for luxury goods wanted by the wealthier ... Click for coin article
Counterfeit Detection: 1914-D Buffalo Nickel, NGCcoin.com
he 1914-D Buffalo nickel is not a coin we would expect to be counterfeited. Unscrupulous people have made counterfeit and altered coins to fool collectors since time immemorial. These fakes were almost always key or semi-key dates, and collectors knew to exercise additional caution with coins such as the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent or the 1916-D Mercury Dime. Common date gold coins were also copied, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, because of their intrinsic value. Coins with little collector value were generally ignored by counterfeiters because there was not ... Click for coin article
'S' Barber quarters toughest of 20th century?, NumismaticNews.net
If you had to pick out one group of coins primarily from the past century that would rank as the toughest collection, the most likely pick would almost have to be the Barber quarters produced at San Francisco. There might be other good choices and you could make the point that some of the San Francisco Barber quarters were actually made in the 1890s, but the bulk were produced after 1900. Technicalities aside, if you really want a challenge when it comes to coins of one facility in the past century, you are going to find no group more challenging than those San Francisco Barber quarters ... Click for coin article
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