Welcome back to Something About Coins! The U.S. Mint's uncirculated Hot Springs 5 oz silver coin sold out, and several details about the upcoming ceremony to launch the Grant $1 Coin surfaced today. A couple of South African coins made the news, and a few class descriptions for ANA's Summer Seminar are listed. The story behind the counterfeit 1969-S doubled die Lincoln cents is also retold. Enjoy!
US Mint Sales: Hot Springs 5 Ounce Silver Coin Sells Out, silvercoinstoday.com
Making headlines is the Hot Springs Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin sell out and the fast moving American Silver Eagle bullion coins. Also, proof sets are back on top of the charts according to the latest United States Mint sales figures. Earlier Thursday, the US Mint enacted their "waiting list" for the Hot Springs issue after orders hit the limit of 27,000. The United States Mint message displayed on its online store read in part: "If a product becomes available due to an order cancellation, we will fulfill orders from the waiting list on a first-in, first-served basis." The Hot Springs coin debuted two weeks ago on ... Click for coin article
U.S. Mint Coming to Grant's Farm with Newest Coin, affton.patch.com
On May 19, the coin honoring Ulysses S. Grant will be released at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site at White Haven in Grantwood Village. Each year since 2007, four $1 coins have rolled out, honoring each of the nation’s presidents in the order they held office. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. Historian John F. Marszalek will deliver a keynote address. Marszalek is executive director and managing editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the author of several books about the Civil War. White Haven Park Superintendent Tim Good was happy about the choice of the St. Louis site ... Click for coin article
Limited edition coin celebrates WWF’s 50th anniversary, engineeringnews.co.za
The South African Mint Company on Thursday launched a limited edition R2 coin to commemorate the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF’s) 50th anniversary. The coins were struck atop Table Mountain – a first in history, and acknowledged the role that WWF has played in conservation, both locally and globally. The silver, crown-size coin features WWF’s panda logo together with South Africa’s national bird, the endangered blue crane, which WWF has worked to conserve. South African Mint representative Natanya van Niekerk explained that in 2011 the South African Mint Company chose ... Click for coin article
SAGCE Joins in Fight to Save Rhinos, numismaster.com
As a show of support for South Africa’s ongoing crusade to preserve the world’s endangered rhino population, the South African Gold Coin Exchange has donated 500,000 rand, or about $75,000, to the Endangered Wildlife Trust. More than 50 rhinos have already been poached in 2011, according to SAGCE. Dovetailing with its EWT donation, SAGCE has launched the Endangered Wildlife Trust rhino gold set. With a mintage of 1,300, the limited edition gold coin set features a 2009 half-ounce white rhino coin, a 2010 half-ounce black rhino coin and a special quarter-ounce Endangered Wildlife Trust medallion ... Click for coin article
Numismatists from NGC and PMG will present classes at the ANA Summer Seminar, ngccoin.com
The ANA Summer Seminar is called "the best education in numismatics." Take a look at the courses being taught by our experts. Summer Seminar features a lineup of classes to suit virtually every collector’s hobby needs. Whether your interest is ancients, paper money, Colonial Americana, Lincoln cents, shipwreck coins, commemoratives, or medals and tokens, there’s a class or mini-seminar for you. Want to start or grow a business, or learn something about security? There’s a class for you. Students can learn to grade coins and detect counterfeits and, most important, hobnob with the hobby’s most ... Click for coin article
America's Most Wanted - Captured!, pcgs.com
The 1969-S Doubled Die Lincoln Cent once made it into the list of America's Secret Service list, not because the Secret Service employees were coin collectors themselves but because the 1969-S Doubled Die cents were once considered to be counterfeit coins. The same individuals who search for Americas Most Wanted Fugitives were for the first time ever searching for America's Most Wanted Coin. Secret Service Investigates the Production of Fake Coins: By sheer coincidence, the 1969-S Doubled Die cents became tainted by an actual counterfeit, the 1969 Doubled Die Obverse cent. In 1969 ... Click for coin article
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