Welcome back to Something About Coins! Buyers rushed to get their share of the new 2011 Proof Gold Eagle coins, according to a recent report, and the Smithsonian received a donation from the designer of the Sacagawea Dollar for its numismatic collection. Five ounce silver coins will hit the coin market soon, and two rare Hawaiian coins are up for auction on Wednesday. Enjoy!
2011 American Gold Eagle Proof Coins Earn $27.7M in Sales Debut, coinnews.net
The United States Mint began selling 2011 American Gold Eagle Proof Coins on Thursday, April 21. Buyers ordered more than $27.7 million worth of the 22-karat collector coins by Sunday, April 24. The Gold Eagle products include coins in four sizes — one ounce, half ounce, quarter ounce and tenth ounce with respective denominations of $50, $25, $10 and $5. The United States Mint also offers a four-coin set with each of the coins in a single blue velvet, satin-lined presentation case. The opening performances for each of the gold coin products were ... Click for coin article
Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection Receives Sacagawea Dollar, artdaily.org
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired 17 items from sculptor Glenna Goodacre from her successful commission to design the Sacagawea dollar coin released in 2000. This donation preserves the creative and technical challenges of such a design and represents an important part of American history. The materials include fired-clay coins, bronze sculptures, plaster studies and pencil-drawing proofs up to the first release of the coin in a presentation box, which will be housed in the museum’s National ... Click for coin article
Ready or not, here come the 5-ouncers, blog.numismaticnews.net/
Are you testing the speed of your Internet connection in anticipation of the rush to buy the collector version of the Hot Springs, Ark., America the Beautiful 5-ounce coin on Thursday? With only 27,000 pieces available, you know the Mint’s website is going to jam up at noon Eastern Time on Thursday. One indicator of the potential market out there is the demand for the 5-ounce 2011 Gettysburg and Glacier National Park pieces that the Mint began selling yesterday to its Authorized Purchaser network. The maximum number of coins that the ... Click for coin article
Rare 19th century Hawaiian coins auctioned online, businessweek.com
Two rare Hawaiian coins, estimated to be worth $40,000 and $15,000, are being auctioned online. The 19th century coins belonged to a Hawaiian memorabilia collector whose widow showed them to a coin dealer. The more valuable coin is a 12 1/2-cent piece known as a hapawalu, which means "one-eighth" in Hawaiian, said Win Callender, a coin expert and consignment director of Heritage Auction Galleries. The Texas-based auction house is conducting the auction, which closes Wednesday. The hapawalu is one of 20 minted in 1883 ... Click for coin article
2011 Presidential $1 Coin Uncirculated Set, coincollectingnews.org
The United States Mint this week announced that the 2011 Presidential $1 Coin Uncirculated Set™ would be released on April 27 for a price of $19.95. The annual set is the fifth release in the series and includes collector uncirculated versions of the four 2011 Presidential Dollars which celebrate Johnson, Grant, Hayes and Garfield, the 17th through 20th Presidents of the United States. The 2011 Presidential $1 Coin Uncirculated Set includes both the Philadelphia and Denver Mint strikes for a total of 8 coins ... Click for coin article
Proof 1962 Franklin Half a Mystery, numismaster.com
I was given a table at the Michigan State Numismatic Society Spring Convention held April 8-11 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn, Mich., in order to answer questions and shoot photos of error-variety coins. A number of interesting pieces showed up, including some I plan to feature in upcoming issues of Numismatic News. This week I’d like to focus on just one of the coins that readers may find interesting enough to search their own collections for, or try their luck cherry-picking from out of dealer stocks. Eagle-eyed variety coin ... Click for coin article
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