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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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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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On Friday, I connected my iPhone to my computer and opened iTunes to sync everything together. During my sync, iTunes reported that there were application updates. One of the updates was the PCGS Photograde for the iPhone application. Since PCGS upgraded the application ...
Full Article: Re-Review: PCGS Photograde Online or iPhone - Coin Collector's Blog
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In their recently concluded January 2010 Americana sale held in New York, there were two record-setting Dahlonega gold coins that I think are worth taking a closer look at. What were these two pieces and why did they sell for as much money as they did?
The first piece was an 1861-D gold dollar graded AU53 by PCGS. I had sold this exact coin a few years ago and was familiar with ...
Full Article: Stack’s Sells Two Importnat Dahlonega Rarities - RareGoldCoins.com
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My mind says 'sleep,' but the clock says 'work.' ... My publisher, Scott Tappa, and associates Tom Michael, Lisa Bellavin and I met with officials of the Spanish Mint Tuesday night at the Estrel Hotel. The place is already beginning to fill up with officials from various world mints. We are all ...
Full Article: Spain could follow in state quarters' footsteps - Buzz with Dave Harper
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