Welcome back to Something About Coins! While reports of the U.S. Mint's Glacier National Park quarter's mintage surfaced, so did news of rising values for certain older dollar coins. Sweden and Germany are both pondering changes to their coin policies, and the U.S. Mint raised prices of their numismatic gold coins.
US Mint March 2011 Coin Production: Glacier Quarter Mintages Revealed, coinnews.net
Fewer and fewer American coins are getting minted this year for circulation, according to the latest coin production figures published by the United States Mint. Those same figures reveal that the combined mintages for the Glacier National Park Quarter rank as the second scarcest in the America the Beautiful Quarters® series. US Mint production in March retreated to 485.5 million coins, down from the more than 523 million coins produced in February and the nearly ... Click for coin article
Time to like Ike again, blog.numismaticnews.net
Do you remember ordering the 40 percent silver collector version of the Eisenhower dollar when it was introduced in 1971? If you do, you also probably remember the disappointing results the coins generally achieved on the secondary market. Purchasers of the brilliant uncirculated silver version in the blue envelope paid all of $3 for the coin. It sounds cheap now, but not so much then. The proof version in the brown box cost $10 and that seemed exorbitant ... Click for coin article
NumisMedia Market Report: Dollar Advances Lead to Added Opportunities, ngccoin.com
Over the past few months, Morgan and Peace Dollars have been as active as most dealers can remember. In 1979 and 1980, silver was even higher than it is now; and MS 65 Morgan Dollars have not been this high since August 2006 when the FMV was $218. Today it is $215. Even when markets were substantially higher, demand was limited to fewer dealers and collectors and the number of coins available was not nearly what it is today. Current demand is so ... Click for coin article
It's Coins Vs. Bank Notes in Sweden, numismaster.com
Once again the General Accountability Office has recently explained to Congress, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the U.S. Treasury that there will be a significant cost-savings if the United States will simply stop issuing dollar bank notes and allow the already existing dollar denomination coins to circulate. While it appears this argument will likely fall on deaf ears just as it has for several decades, Sweden has taken the opposite position, arguing that if coins are replaced ... Click for coin article
Germany Curtails Silver Commemorative Coin as Prices Surge, bloomberg.com
Germany will curtail the production of silver commemorative coins because of the increase in the value of the metal this year by more than 30 percent. German mints will begin producing commemorative coins using a copper-nickel alloy this year, the Finance Ministry in Berlin said today in a statement. Coins containing a silver-copper alloy will be worth more than their face value. The ministry cited budgetary restrictions for the decision ... Click for coin article
US Mint Increases American Buffalo and First Spouse Gold Coin Prices, coinnews.net
The United States Mint around noon ET raised the prices for all its numismatic 24-karat gold coin products. The increases came about as a response to higher gold prices and the Mint’s policy to raise or lower its products when the yellow metal makes large weekly swings. The US Mint uses the average of the previous Thursday AM to current Wednesday AM London gold fixing as the main indicator in determining whether coin price adjustments are necessary ... Click for coin article
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