Welcome back to Something About Coins! The U.S. Mint is giving the 2011 Proof Silver Eagle a price of $59.95. The Perth Mint released a 5 Oz Silver 2011 Australian Koala Coin. The melt value of the 2009 UHR Double Eagle is higher than its initial launch price, and NGC has figured out a way to grade and label bullion Silver Eagle coins struck at the San Francisco Mint. A book about coin hoards is carefully reviewed by Paul M. Green. Enjoy!
US Mint Sets 2011 Proof Silver Eagle Price and June Release Date, coinnews.net
One of the United States Mint’s most popular coins will be hitting the streets on Thursday, June 30 — the 2011 Proof American Silver Eagle. The silver coin market has been fierce, and this year’s coin will cost more as a result. The 2010 Proof Silver Eagle had a price tag of $45.95, but the price of silver then was around $22 per ounce as compared to about $37 an ounce today. Subsequently, the US Mint indicated that it will offer the 2011 Proof Silver Eagle for a price of $59.95, or $14 higher than the previous issue. The United States Mint explicitly stated that its coin pricing is subject to change given the ... Click for coin article
Melt on 2009 Saint-Gaudens UHR Tops Purchase Price, numismaster.com
Gold continues its upward march as this is being written. It is at $1,504 now, but it’s anyone’s guess as to how high or how low it will be by the time this issue arrives in subscribers’ hands and appears on newsstands across the nation. In 2009, when I decided to purchase one of the Mint’s reproductions of the Saint-Gaudens ultra high relief gold $20s, I didn’t imagine it would be worth more now as bullion than it cost. Of course, the collector value on this piece is much higher than its melt value, but having purchased my example among the first wave of buyers, before the Mint increased ... Click for coin article
NGC to Certify San Francisco Mint Silver Eagles, ngccoin.com
The U. S. Mint’s recent announcement that its production of Uncirculated Silver American Eagle bullion coins will be supplemented with coins minted at San Francisco came as a delightful surprise to collectors. Though these SAE coins will not carry the ‘S’ mintmark of San Francisco, they will be shipped in bulk packaging that identifies their place of manufacture, and NGC will certify these coins as products of the San Francisco Mint. The number of SAE coins that San Francisco will mint is unknown, but collectors will certainly seek these pieces as issues separate from the normal production ... Click for coin article
2011 Australian Koala 5 Oz Silver Proof Coin Released, silvercoinstoday.com
The Perth Mint of Australia treads into new territory with the newly released 2011 Australian Koala 5 Ounce Silver Proof Coin. Never before has a five ounce issue been produced in the extremely popular series of koala silver coins, making this release even more unique. The Perth Mint is no stranger to the koala series itself. It has been striking them since 2007. However, traditionally, the coins of the program are produced to bullion quality as an investment option in four different sizes -- 1 kilo, 10 oz, 1 oz, and 1/2 oz. (See 2011 issues.) Despite their intended market, the silver coins are also extremely popular ... Click for coin article
Bowers Book Relates Tales of Hoards, numismaster.com
There are very few things more fun in numismatics than hoards. There is just something exciting about large numbers of coins previously unknown or thought to be lost suddenly turning up and being offered for sale. For the buyer it is a great opportunity and for the rest of us it is just great fun. In his book, American Coin Treasures and Hoards Q. David Bowers does a great service for us all by basically putting in one book all the hoard stories ever told over the years. It seems that Bowers was a numismatic Google for hoard stories before there was a Google. Now the information on hoard after hoard is ... Click for coin article
William G. Dewald: U.S. coinage in need of a makeover, dispatch.com
The newspaper in Fort Myers, Fla., where I live in the winter, berated a restaurant there for not returning coins in change to customers who paid in cash. It simply rounded bills to the nearest dollar. That was a quick and dirty way to avoid the trouble and expense of maintaining a cash register stocked with coins of minimal value, and, to me, it seems a sensible response until our very out-of-date coinage system is updated. The United States has a troubled coinage history. In the 1960s and early 1970s, there was an acute coin shortage. Increases in the market price of silver had increased the ... Click for coin article
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