Ottawa, Ontario — As part of the Government of Canada’s budget announcement to modernize Canada’s currency , the Royal Canadian Mint will change the composition of one-dollar and two-dollar coins, using the Corporation’s cost-effective patented multi-ply plated steel technology.
The current composition for the one-dollar coin is bronze plated nickel, while the current composition for the two-dollar coin is, for the inner core, aluminum bronze (copper, aluminum and nickel), and for the outer ring, pure nickel. The primary new composition of both coins, to be launched at the beginning of 2011, will be multi-ply plated steel ...
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The ANA Museum Showcase will make its National Money Show™ debut March 25-27 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. This spectacular gallery gives visitors a unique chance to see some of the world’s most beautiful and valuable coins.
The showcase will be located just inside the bourse entrance, and features several numismatic treasures. The Smithsonian Institution’s exhibit, "Good as Gold: America’s Double Eagles," explores the history of the U.S. $20 gold piece. The display includes the first (1849 pattern) and last (1933) double eagles ever produced, and a 1907 Saint-Gaudens ultra-high-relief $20 pattern coin that President Theodore Roosevelt gave his daughter Edith for Christmas that year ...
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A limited collector coin replicating the design of the historical Sydney Cove Medallion has been unveiled at the Museum of Sydney by Lord Wedgwood of Barlaston, the seventh generation descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, whose company created the original Medallion in 1789.
Struck by The Perth Mint from 1oz of 99.9% pure silver and issued as official Australian legal tender, the coin features a special ‘high relief’ representation of the celebrated Medallion’s allegorical design portraying ‘time’s opening scenes’ in the colony of New South Wales.
With four classical figures on the shores of a bay, the scene was called Hope encouraging Art and Labour under the influence of Peace to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to the infant colony. Beneath the figures in raised lettering was inscribed ETRURIA 1789, the name of Wedgwood’s Staffordshire factory ...
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The fifth major numismatic product to contain this year’s America the Beautiful Quarters Program coins is the 2010 United States Mint Silver Proof Set™.
As the name of the set indicates, several coins are struck from 90% silver, a composition in the days of old referred to as coin silver. The pieces minted from the precious metal are the Kennedy Half Dollar, the Roosevelt Dime and the newly designed 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters.
The five 2010 quarters include 0.904 ounces of silver while the 50c and 10c pieces have respective silver weights of 0.36 ounce and 0.07 ounces. Combined, the silver set includes 1.34 ounces of silver which is an intrinsic value of $22.75 at a silver spot price of $17.00 an ounce ...
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This article is the fourth in a series to briefly detail the various U.S. Mint offerings that include 2010 quarters.
America the Beautiful QuarterThe United States Mint is introducing a new series of coins as a follow-up to the successful 50-State Quarters and last year’s District of Columbia & US Territories Quarters. Dubbed the America the Beautiful Quarters Program, these new strikes will also be included within several major numismatic products released by the Mint, including the 2010 United States Mint Proof Set®.
The US Mint has yet to publicize the official price that will be charged for the 2010 Proof Set, which it has scheduled for release in July or August.
Last year’s set sold for $29.95, but it included 4 more coins than what will be found in the 2010 set. Previous years’ sets had 14 coins like this year’s set and ...
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The pace of striking coins at the US Mint has been much like watching a crawling turtle stroll through the mud. Mintage levels were way down last year, and slumped in January to start this one — numbers were less than half that of January 2009. February was no different, according to the latest round of coin production figures. (See Chart)
A highlight for the month includes action in Roosevelt dimes to the tune of 19 million in Philadelphia. It was last April when the United States Mint announced that it would produce no more dimes during 2009, and it didn’t. 146 million were struck in total for the year. The 2010-dated dime amount is token level, but ... ...
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America the Beautiful QuarterThe 2010 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set® is the third major US Mint product that will include the first five issues in the premiering America the Beautiful Quarters Program, as well as the four newly designed $1 coins — to include the already popular Presidential Lincoln Dollar.
An official release date for the 2010 set has not yet been announced, but it has been tentatively marked for July. Likewise, the price has not yet been published. However, last year’s set (which included 36 coins) sold for $27.95. The 2008 set had the same amount of coins as this years (28) and sold for $22.95 ...
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The new 11-year series entitled America the Beautiful Quarters Program debuts from the United States Mint this year with five newly designed quarters.The US Mint’s second major numismatic product of the year to contain these coins is the 2010 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Silver Proof Set™.
The quarters contained within are struck from 90 percent silver. At a standard weight of 6.250 grams per coin, the set includes 0.904 ounces of silver which is an intrinsic value of $14.92 at a silver spot price of $16.50 an ounce.
The Mint is showing a tentative $29.95 price in its subscription program, and a later than normal release date...
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The America the Beautiful Quarters Program debuts this year. The first major numismatic product out of the gate to feature the coins will be the 2010 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set™.
Since the law authorizing the new quarters is relatively new and the Mint had a substantial amount of "catch up" to do in creating the groundwork for all 56 National Parks and National Sites to be honored from 2010 to 2021, this year’s quarters and related collectors products will get issued much later than typical.
That inherently implies that they will not be around as long, indicating their mintage / sales levels could be greatly ...
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