WASHINGTON - The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Gold Coin and Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Bronze Medal on March 18, 2010, at noon Eastern Time (ET).
Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Gold Coin - Click to Enlarge
The one-half ounce 24-karat gold coin, struck at the United States Mint at West Point, will be available in proof and uncirculated conditions. Pricing for the coins will be based on the United States Mint's pricing structure for precious metals products.
For current pricing information, visit http://usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=goldplat. The bronze medals, which bear a likeness of the gold coin, will also be available for $5.50 each.
The coin's obverse (heads side) features a portrait of Abigail Fillmore by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Phebe Hemphill. Inscriptions on the obverse are ABIGAIL FILLMORE, IN GOD WE TRUST, LIBERTY, 2010, 13th and 1850-1853, the period during which she was the spouse of the President. [click to continue…]
In the ancient world it was Ptolemaic Egypt that produced the largest gold coins. During the early modern era it was Mogul India that surpassed the coins of ancient Egypt. Today Canada is arguing it has more recently produced the largest gold coin ever to be issued.
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The Philadelphia mint began producing the familiar Liberty Head half eagle design in 1839. After a quick modification in 1840, this issue continued without change until 1866 when the motto IN GOD WE TRUST was added to the reverse.
The branch mint No Motto half eagles from the 1840’s are very popular with collectors. But their Philadelphia counterparts have ...
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Coin demand declined almost across the entire United States Mint product lines, according to the latest weekly sales figures.
The week-over-week gainers can be counted on three fingers:
- Proof Anna Harrison First Spouse Gold Coins rose 56 over the previous 33
- The 2009 US Mint Set climbed 7,385 versus 3,616
- John Tyler Presidential $1 Coin Covers increased 29 from 23
Sales of 2010 American Disabled Veterans Silver Coins are settling in -- which is normal -- following their brisk opening numbers. Collectors picked up another 24,784 of the proofs and 8,692 of the uncirculated silver dollars, bringing their combined total to 131,834 since their official release on February 25, 2010. They have reached nearly 38% of their allotted 350,000 mintage. [click to continue…]
One of the more interesting (and lesser known) gold coin auctions that I’ve attended was the sale of the Stetson Collection which was conducted by the old Bowers and Merena in May, 1993. This was an instance where the back story (or stories in this case) was nearly as interesting as the coins themselves.
Beginning in 1992, an amazing hoard of ...
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If you want some good advise, "Don't clean your coins" is just that. Does this mean that coins should never be cleaned? No, but usually cleaning your coins removes not only dirt, but also value.
There are really only two ways to clean coins, abrasives or solvents. An abrasive will leave tell tale signs that a coin has ...
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For 24 years, Richard Doty has been entrusted with the keys to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s legendary coin vault, which houses some of the most important coins in the world. Doty’s “America’s Money, America’s Story” is one of the most respected books on the subject of U.S. coins and currency, and his next book with Whitman Publishing, “Pictures From a Distant Country,” will focus on obsolete U.S. currency. You can see samples from the Smithsonian’s U.S. coins collection at their ...
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Another new year dated product debuts in the latest United States Mint weekly sales report. The 2010 Disabled Veterans Silver Coins shined with three-day sales hitting nearly 100,000.
Broken out, 66,209 of the proof options were sold along with 32,149 of the uncirculated. In total, collectors grabbed 98,358 and made their sales debut one of the better ones.
As a comparison, "last year's highly popular and sold out Abraham Lincoln Silver Dollar debuted with three-day sales of 116,558 for the proof and 61,164 for the uncirculated, totaling to 177,722," writes CoinNews. "The final commemorative of last year, the Louis Braille Silver dollar, came in with initial sales of 28,880 for the proof and 11,964 for the uncirculated, totaling 40,844."
The American Veterans Disabled for Life Silver Dollars are the first of two commemoratives to be released in 2010, with the 2010 Boy Scout Silver Coins to follow on March 23, 2010.
While the proof and uncirculated silver dollars came in number one and number two as leaders in collector coin sales, the 2010 Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set was right behind. Another 25,512 were sold, bringing the total to 326,464 in less than one month of availability. [click to continue…]
The latest United States Mint bullion coin sales figures have been released and the stats show authorized buyers purchased 84,000 American Eagle Gold coins during February 2010, which was 1,000 less than the prior month.
Atypical from other years is that the tally includes both 2009 and 2010-dated coins. This year was the first time in the U.S. Mint’s history of selling the gold coins that a current year’s eagles were not offered during the first week of January. Exceptional demand for the eagles in 2009 resulted in a ...
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