Welcome to Something About Coins! The U.S. Mint plans to reinstate an annual product that has been on a hiatus since 2008. It will be the 2011 Uncirculated Silver Eagle, a collector version of the popular bullion coin. They already made available the five ounce silver Mt. Hood coins, and their sales figures have been reported. The Perth Mint released a Golden Hind Australian Coin, the second issue in their Ships That Changed the World Series. Gold is trading around $1,700 an ounce, and there are plenty of bullion Gold Eagles available. Special coins are being auctioned at high prices, and nearly 100 Roman coins lead archaeologists to a Roman town discovery. Enjoy!
2011-W American Silver Eagle Uncirculated Coin Release Date, silvercoinstoday.com
The United States Mint has provided a release date for the 2011-W American Silver Eagle Uncirculated Coin on its online "Scheduled Products Listing" page. According to that schedule, the uncirculated Silver Eagle will be available on September 29, 2011. While the release date is subject to change, it indicates that the numismatic strike will make a return to the Mint's line-up. The uncirculated coin has been missing as a Mint product offering since it last appeared in 2008. The ... Click for coin article
Perth Mint Issues Golden Hind 1 Oz Silver Proof Coin, worldmintcoins.com
The Perth Mint of Australia has released the Golden Hind 1 Oz Silver Proof Coin as the second issue of the Ships That Changed the World Series. This coin is struck from one ounce of 99.9% pure silver and features a maximum mintage of only 5,000 pieces. Shown on the reverse of the coin is a design depicting the majestic ship known as the Golden Hind. The ship was named the Golden Hind by Sir Francis Drake in preparation for his voyage around the Strait of Magellan. It was done in ... Click for coin article
US Mint Sales: Mount Hood 5 Oz Silver Coins Start Slower, coinnews.net
This week debut sales figures were released for two new United States Mint products, the 2010-P Mount Hood National Forest Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin and the Gettysburg Quarter Three-Coin Set. Both products enjoyed solid starts, but the Mount Hood five ouncer is moving slower as compared against previous designs in the series. Buyers ordered 14,759, or 54.7 percent of the maximum 27,000 Mount Hood silver coins between their launch on Thursday, July 28, through ... Click for coin article
Panic or designer crisis?, numismaticnews.net/buzz
What kind of a week will we have where gold is trading at record prices over $1,700 an ounce? An interesting one I expect. In some ways it is a designer financial crisis. In a flat out panic, individuals will buy anything that they think will protect themselves from financial calamity. As far as the flight to gold is concerned, this is true. However, I use the term designer crisis because in recent days, unlike 2008, there are still plenty of gold American Eagle bullion coins available ... Click for coin article
Buying a story with a coin, coinvaluesonline.com
"People don't just want to buy an object, they want to buy a story." Nicolas Chow, Sotheby's head of Chinese works of art – a category that has exploded in the past three years – wrote this, and I find it wonderfully applicable to the coin market. Perhaps his words resonate most deeply in specialist areas, with dedicated collector bases that are expanding as the Internet makes information more accessible and better connects people with numismatic objects that may intrigue them enough to
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England's western-most Roman town uncovered, bbc.co.uk
A chance discovery of coins has led to the bigger find of a Roman town, further west than it was previously thought Romans had settled in England. The town was found under fields a number of miles west of Exeter, Devon. Nearly 100 Roman coins were initially uncovered there by two amateur archaeological enthusiasts. It had been thought that fierce resistance from local tribes to Roman culture stopped the Romans from moving so far into the county. Sam Moorhead, national ... Click for coin article
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