Welcome back to Something About Coins! Another 5 oz silver bullion coin, this one will honor Olympic National Park in Washington, will enter the market next week. The Numismatic Guaranty Corporation is advertising their new oversized coin holders for the extra large silver coins. The American Numismatic Society is displaying a Coins of the Holy Land exhibit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Imagine finding 300 gold coins under a concrete slab. It happened in Australia. The U.S. Mint's gold coin prices decreased. Doug Winter, rare gold coin expert, talks about what's hot in his field. Enjoy!
Olympic 5 Oz Silver Bullion Coin Release; Gettysburg, Glacier Sold Out, coinnews.net
The United States Mint this week told its bullion product buyers that it will begin accepting orders for the Olympic National Park 5-Ounce Silver Bullion Coin on Monday, May 23. The Olympic coin is the third 2011-dated America the Beautiful 5-Ounce Silver Bullion Coin and the eighth since the series kicked-off in December 2010. The United States Mint also indicated that its first two 5-ounce bullion issues for this year, the Gettysburg silver coin and Glacier silver coin, sold out on Monday, May 16. Both went on sale April 25 with an ... Click for coin article
5-ounce Silver Quarter Certification at NGC, ngccoin.com
NGC is using special America’s National Treasures™ large format certification labels with 5-ounce silver quarters. The 2010 5-ounce America the Beautiful silver quarters for Yellowstone, Glacier, Gettysburg and Hot Springs have recently been released and NGC is ready to certify and encapsulate them. The new 5-ounce silver quarters are three inches in diameter and, when certified by NGC, are encapsulated using the NGC Oversize Holder. Specially for these coins, NGC has introduced an EdgeView gasket for the Oversize Holder ... Click for coin article
ANS Holy Land exhibit debuts, numismaticnews.net
An exhibit organized by the American Numismatic Society in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York titled “Cultural Change: Coins of the Holy Land” is on view at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It opened May 6. Most of the coins on display are from the collection of Abraham and Marian D. Scheuer Sofaer. During more than three decades of assembling their collection, the Sofaers acquired a multi-cultural representation of coins that includes ancient Jewish coins, Christian coins of the Byzantine and Crusader ... Click for coin article
Builders dig up $500,000 in gold coins in Albany, Western Australian, heraldsun.com.au
Hundreds of historic gold coins have been uncovered by building workers in Albany, on WA's south coast. Albany police confirmed the reports that workers doing excavations on Stirling Terrace had found around 300 gold sovereigns buried under concrete. Initial reports said the sovereigns dated back to the year 1800, and were worth more than $500,000. Albany was the first settlement in WA, established in December 1826, even before the Swan River colony which led to the Perth's early development. A replica of the historic brig Amity, the ... Click for coin article
US Mint Drops Gold Coin Prices, Sets Buffalo Price, coinnews.net
The United States Mint on Wednesday cut the prices on all its collector gold coins in response to falling gold prices over the previous week. Unlike the Mint’s investment-grade gold coins that are sold for small premiums above the latest spot price of gold at the time, the United States Mint has a policy to adjust its numismatic gold coin prices up to once a week based on a weekly average of the precious metal. That average fell below $1,500 an ounce, which triggered the following new product prices: Additionally, the price point for the 2011 Proof ... Click for coin article
What’s Hot and What’s Not: Spring 2011, raregoldcoins.com
One of the more popular entries in the DWN Blogospehere is the “Hot/Not” feature. Its been a while since I’ve written one of these, and with groundbreaking ideas not exactly teeming in my little coin brain right now, it seems as good a time as any to analyze which coins are in demand right now and which aren’t. WHAT’S HOT 1. Virtually any coin that is either finest known or which appears as such according to the PCGS/NGC population figures. There have been some really incredible auction results (and private sales) in the last few ... Click for coin article
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