The United States Mint finally placed the proof 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollar on official “Sold Out” status — weeks (if not months) after many had anticipated the event would occur.
2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollars
This closes the final chapter on what has been an interesting roller-coaster for the commemorative coins that celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. The proof coins launched on March 23, 2010, along with their uncirculated counterparts, to overwhelming demand...
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The commemorative series in gold "Celebrated Physicians of Austria" concludes with a coin for the renowned Viennese doctor, Clemens von Pirquet (1874-1929).
Clemens von Pirquet was born in 1874 just outside Vienna. His father had been a member of the imperial parliament, and had proposed Bertha von Suttner for the Nobel Peace Prize (which she received in 1905). His son would be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Medicine five times, unfortunately without the same success.
Clemens began studying theology in 1892, but soon abandoned it. In 1895 he began his study of medicine in Vienna, continuing in Konigsberg (Prussia) and in Graz where he then graduated in 1900. He then went to Berlin to attend a course in pediatrics. Returning to Vienna, he obtained a position at the St. Anna Children’s Hospital, where he also had good facilities for medical research ...
Full Article: Austrian Mint's Physician Clemens von Pirquet Gold Coin - CoinNews
The 2009 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Silver Dollars were released by the U.S. Mint on the bicentennial of the birth of the 16th President of the United States, February 12, 2009.
They were hot. The Mint’s entire mintage of 450,000 single coins sold out in six weeks. Broken out between the two options issued, 325,000 proof and 125,000 uncirculated coins were scooped up by collectors.
50,000 proof dollars were kept in reserve for the Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set, which was attractively packaged to also include proofs of the four redesigned 2009 Lincoln cents with their special 95% copper compositions. The sets debuted on October 15, 2009 and sold out in 30 hours, adding up to the 500,000 authorized Lincoln commemorative coin limit ...
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The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. (MT) on Monday, June 28, 2010, at Gaylord Hall, in the Worner Center, on the campus of Colorado College, 902 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903.
The purpose of the meeting is to conduct business related to the CCAC's responsibility to advise the Secretary of the Treasury on themes and designs pertaining to United States coinage. [click to continue…]
The Royal Canadian Mint announced last week that it has become the exclusive retailer for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Silver Coins produced by the South African Mint to celebrate the renowned international soccer tournament held in its country this year.
The FIFA World Cup has been held every four years since the first tournament kicked off in 1930, with the exception of an interruption in 1942 and 1946 as a result of WWII.
Millions around the world are following the games during the month-long tournament. Millions will watch as the winner is awarded the World Cup Trophy, which is a prominent design feature on the coins...
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We all know that the coin market runs in cycles. The past couple of years, the overall market has been lower than the previous five years. Although, if you survey a group of major dealers across the country, some of them will tell you that the last two years have been the best in their business history. Coin cycles are much different today than they were twenty years ago. In the 1980s and 90s, when the coin market went south, most dealers had trouble selling coins, any coins. Some series were impossible to sell because ...
Full Article: Bargain Hunters Competing with Continued Optimism - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
Everyone can own a cahow now. The Bermuda Petrel (cahow) coin was released last week by the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Dr. David Wingate, who rediscovered the birds after they were thought to be extinct, was consulted by the BMA about the image to be portrayed on the coin ...
Full Article: Cahow coin unveiled - Bermuda Sun
It has been just over eight months since the United States Mint released the Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set on October 15, 2009 to a ravenous group of buyers.
Initial day ordering was so high that many collectors experienced technical difficulties on the U.S. Mint’s online store and when calling in by phone.
Reports placed sales in the first five hours at almost 30,000 — an amazing number considering the mintage of the sets was capped at 50,000. Fast-forward 25 hours and all of the Mint’s inventory was marked as sold. New orders were entered on a standby "waiting list" to cover cancellations.
While the 30-hour sell-out was longer than some actually predicted, it showed the intense interest collectors and the general public had for the sets… and still do..
Full Article: Lincoln Coin and Chronicles Set Values - CoinNews
Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants, Caesar marched over them, Napoleon rode across, ladies and gentlemen were carried across in chairs, but the Grossglockner High Alpine Road enables the crossing from the province of Salzburg to Carinthia in the south by motorcar, bus, motorbike or even bicycle, and that over Austria’s highest mountain — the Grossglockner.
On 3rd August, 1935, the high alpine road over the Grossglockner mountain pass was officially opened to traffic. From 1930 till 1935 during 26 months of construction, 870,000 cubic meters of earth and rock were moved, 115,750 cubic meters of retaining wall were built and 67 bridges were erected.
A total of 3,200 men labored with the fairly simple tools of the day completing in record time this marvel of mountain engineering ...
Full Article: Austrian Coin Feature Grossglockner Alpine Road - CoinNews
