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7 September 2008

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Considering alternatives to American Eagle silver coins - Coin Values

Proof American Eagle silver dollars are among the most popular coin-related gifts given each holiday season. With sales of 2008-W pieces suspended indefinitely, it remains to be seen if more silver American Eagles will be available for gift buyers later this year.

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Historic coin pedigrees lost - Coin Values

An increasing number of comments from both collectors and dealers suggest that through grading and re-grading, pedigrees of many important coins are being lost or even intentionally dropped by submitters.

Lost provenances include important and historic pedigrees such as “Garrett,” “Norweb,” “Pittman,” “Eliasberg” and “Clapp.”

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PCGS Expands, Enhances Online Coin Price Guide

New features, including online streaming video commentary from Collectors Universe President and Co-Founder David Hall have been added to the Professional Coin Grading Service’s authoritative Rare Coin Price Guide at www.PCGS.com/prices. All of the information is available free to the public.

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Superior Galleries, Bowers and Merena Auctions, and Stack’s opens activity - Coin Values

The market resumed its strong momentum in pre-American Numismatic Association convention trading at auctions conducted by Superior Galleries, Bowers and Merena Auctions, and Stack’s.

Superior’s auction was up first, starting the morning of July 26. Superior has been in the coin field since 1931, but in recent years has gone through a series of ownership changes.

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Inflation moving metals - Coin Values

Collectors in some segments of the coin market are changing their buying habits as a result of the shaky U.S. economy, while other buyers keep roaring unaffected.

While everyone is caught up in the higher costs of living, some people are experiencing greater hardship. Collectors of average means are affected by higher fuel, food and other costs that may keep them from spending as much on coins as they previously did.

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Valuing coins requires sources - Coin Values

People often ask, “Where do you get all your values?” Our answer is, “Many sources.” The majority of values listed in Coin World’s Coin Values and at www.coinvaluesonline.com are derived from prices realized at major public auctions.

Private transactions are another useful source of pricing data, although we are not privy to many of these transactions. If a private transaction (especially for record prices) is made…

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Original coin surfaces count - Coin Values

It’s no secret. Coins with “original,” untampered-with surfaces are worth premiums – sometimes large premiums. Nowhere in the coin market is this more apparent than for U.S. coins dating from the first issues of 1792 to those of the late 1830s.

Of course contemporary coinage is easy to find with original surfaces, as are 20th century coins.

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Grades may be same - Coin Values

Imagine finding two identical American Eagle platinum coins. One coin is housed in a Numismatic Guaranty Corp. holder, while the other is certified by the Professional Coin Grading Service.

Since NGC and PCGS are the largest firms of their kind, many would assume that our sample coins have the same value. That could be a very costly mistake.

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Market generally solid - Coin Values

Nobody can predict the future of the coin market with absolute certainty. We’re still in a 5-year-old bull market trend, which is very lengthy in terms of past coin market cycles. And as we all know, the general world-wide economic climate is dismal.

Certain areas of the coin market are feeling the pinch, but overall the market still has solid support from eager buyers. As reported in the June 23 issue, collectors of average means are left with less disposable income to use for purchasing coins because they’re having to struggle with much higher living costs. This reality has slowed business in some areas, but has generally not affected values in the overall coin market.

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Gold coin hoard will sell quickly - Coin Values

Hearing of a “hoard” of coins conjures up images of surplus, oversupply and the uncommon that suddenly becomes common. This happened in 1962 when hundreds of thousands of the formerly rare Mint State 1903-O Morgan dollars surfaced in the form of $1,000 canvas bags of silver dollars that had been locked in a vault at the Philadelphia Mint since 1929.

The values of the previously few known Uncirculated examples of the 1903-O Morgan dollar quickly plummeted from between $1,000 and $2,000 each all the way down to about $25.

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