From the category archives:
The Boy Scouts and the U.S. Mint are going to kick off the new Scouting centennial commemorative silver dollar next week in appropriate fashion and, I hope, it will be in front of an audience that appreciates it.
A ceremony has been slated to be held next week in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association’s National Money Show in Fort Worth, Texas.
It will be held at ...
Full Article: Boy Scout dollar event at ANA convention - Buzz with Dave Harper
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In the past few years, I’ve noticed an interesting trend in relation to the pricing of rare date gold coins. I refer to this as “value compression.” Let me explain what I mean.
When I mention this term I am referring to a small price premium between grades. The classic value-compressed issues have long been the Iowa and Roanoke commemorative half dollars. According to the most recent CDN Greysheet , the difference in value between an MS60 and MS65 Iowa half dollar is a whopping $12 (!) while a Roanoke shows a value increase of just $70 between MS60 and MS65 ...
Full Article: Value Compression: A New Trend in the Dated Gold Market - RareGoldCoins.com
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The folks at CAC (Certified Acceptance Corp) have shared some information about submissions and acceptance percentages with us. CAC started their services in 2007.
Coins Submitted: 144,137 ...
Full Article: CAC Reports Submission Statistics - Stella
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The last heavy stages of cataloging for Heritage’s Official ANA Auction next month are underway. Cataloging life is never more stressful than in “the crunch,” but at the same time, it doesn’t get any more interesting. It’s impossible to predict what will come next!
For me, this past Friday was the most interesting ...
Full Article: Fifty Large, Heritage Auction Galleries' style - Heritage Blog
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Coin errors are both the easiest thing for collectors to understand and the hardest. Everybody understands the concept of something going wrong. However, from there many tend to slide off into silliness.
You see cutesy stories or descriptions over time that are written to hype ...
Full Article: If the story is cute, run away - Buzz with Dave Harper
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There are a few relatively unknown but numismatically significant varieties of early United States gold coinage that I think are likely to be included in comprehensive collections of these issues as they become more popular with collectors. Here are a few of the "secret" varieties that I would suggest collectors be on the lookout for.
1798 Close Date and Wide Date Quarter Eagles ...
Full Article: Some "Secret" Varieties of Early U.S. Gold - RareGoldCoins.com
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During the last few weeks I’ve had a similar conversation with a few new and more experienced collectors: what should I be collecting? I’ve found all the conversations that I have had with these collectors to have a similar unifying theme; at least from the standpoint of the collectors.
My observation is that everyone takes the "what should I collect?" question a bit too seriously and expects there to be a rigorous set of rules that they have to follow. I personally think ...
Full Article: Deciding What to Collect - RareGoldCoins.com
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Numismatic News received a letter recently that said the Mint director treated the new Native American dollar coins too roughly at its debut event. Referred to specifically was the pouring of new Native American dollars from a basket at a Jan. 25 ceremony in New York that was covered in Numismatic News.
The tone of the letter was such that you would think the Mint director was smashing ...
Full Article: Don't treat dollars with kid gloves – use them - Buzz with Dave Harper
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One of the broad styles or modes of collecting coins, type collecting consists of acquiring and owning a series of coins, each representative of a subset, or “type” of coin. A type set of double eagles, for example, would include coins exemplifying its various designs over the years, both long-lived (such as the “Type Three” Liberty double eagle with denomination spelled out as TWENTY DOLLARS, struck from 1877 to 1907) and short-lived (the High Relief Saint-Gaudens double eagle was made only briefly in the latter year) ...
Full Article: The 1904 Double Eagle, Playing to Type - Heritage Blog
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