Posts tagged as:
When Lot 5890 hammered at Noble Numismatics’ last sale of 2009, the total realized had soared past $3.8 million. Clearly the market appetite Down Under for coins, bank notes, tokens and medals has been little affected by global economic woes.
Star of the show was a penny, but not just any old penny. Among Australian bronze pennies, that struck in 1925 at Melbourne Mint may not be the ...
Full Article: Aussie Penny Top Lot at Noble Sale - NumisMaster
{ 0 comments }
The fourth and final redesigned 2009 Lincoln cent launched in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 12. By the following Sunday and according to the latest US Mint sales report, 153,427 of the two-roll sets were scooped up by collectors. Crunching the numbers and moving the decimal point, that is 15.3 million pennies.
During the same initial days following the launch of the previous two pennies, 15.2 million of the third Professional Life cents sold, and 20 million of the second Rail Splitter pennies sold.
In contrast, it took almost two weeks for ...
Full Article: 2009 Lincoln Presidency Cent Sold 15M - CoinNews
{ 0 comments }
The public is invited to join United States Mint Director Ed Moy at a special ceremony to launch the final coin in the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent Coin Program, honoring Abraham Lincoln's presidency in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will take place 10 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) Thursday, November 12, at the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Statue located below the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Invited guests include Dr. Donald Kennon, Chief Historian of the U. S. Capitol Historical Society, and Eileen Mackevich, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Children 18 years and younger will receive a new "Presidency" Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Coin to commemorate the event. The news media are welcome to attend.
The design selected for aspect four of Lincoln's life features the half-finished United States Capitol dome, symbolizing a Nation torn apart by civil war and the resolve Lincoln showed as he guided the country through its most grave crisis. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
Lincoln Presidency in DC Cent - Click to Enlarge
WASHINGTON - On November 12, 2009, the United States Mint will release to the Federal Reserve Bank millions of one-cent coins bearing the fourth-and final-new reverse (tails side) design in the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Program.
The design is emblematic of Lincoln's presidency in Washington, D.C. For a limited time only, the agency will offer the 2009 Lincoln Cent Two-Roll Set - "Presidency" at its online catalog, http://www.usmint.gov/catalog, beginning at noon Eastern Time (ET) on November 12. Orders are limited to five units per household.
Priced at $8.95, the set contains one roll of 50 coins from the United States Mint at Philadelphia with no mint mark and one roll of 50 coins from the United States Mint at Denver with the "D" mint mark. Each roll is packaged in specially designed paper coin wrap that displays the mint of origin, the year and the face value of its contents. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
The annual Penny Harvest is now underway with an estimated 500,000 students participating in the 19th year of its operation.
Schools across the nation have signed on to take part in the activity by allowing their students to take an active roll in the process. Through the use of adult coaches, peer leaders, assemblies, etc., kids are asked to volunteer their time to help raise money for their community, one penny at a time.
Those who do participate then go home and ask their family, friends, and neighbors for loose change (as well as donate some themselves) and begin to collect it to be eventually turned back in to their school. Once the coins are compiled, the funds are set aside while those same students take an active part in deciding what do to with the ...
Full Article: 19th Annual Penny Harvest - CoinNews
{ 0 comments }
Lincoln cents are one of the gateway coins of numismatics and most collectors have at one time or another filled a blue Whitman album with circulated Lincoln cents.
The series is one of the first that people collect, and it's still an exciting moment for most people to find a Wheat reverse cent, produced from 1909 to 1958, in circulation today ...
Full Article: Gateway closing a little - Coin Values
{ 0 comments }
I recently attended the Illinois Numismatic Association 50th anniversary show near Chicago. I wish I could have gotten away from the ICG table long enough to search for variety coins as this was truly a great “collectors” show.
During the three-day event I was asked to grade and authenticate many more 1922 Plain cents than I normally see at shows. In each case, I explained the nuances of these coins to their owners. Perhaps readers will also appreciate some insight into this variety ...
Full Article: Second '2' in Date Key to Authenticating 1922 Plain Cent - NumisMaster
{ 0 comments }
Finding a Lincoln cent sleeper is not easy. It is also not easy to identify a Lincoln cent that has doubled in price in recent years without any notice. In both cases, however, the 1952-S happens to be one Lincoln cent date that can be named to answer both questions.
Precisely what is going on with the 1952-S Lincoln cent and why are a couple very good questions. Historically the 1952-S has never been considered an especially tough Lincoln cent. In fact, with its mintage of ...
Full Article: Price Gains Make 1952-S a Sleeper on the Move - NumisMaster
{ 0 comments }
Last week’s Coin Monday was Part One of “The Double,” a two-parter on the unusual and desirable coins appearing in multiples in Heritage’s October Dallas U.S. Coin auction. Today, as promised, it’s on to the 1969-S doubled die cents. (For background on what a doubled die is, please check out the Coin Monday post “Seeing Double?”)
The 1969-S doubled die cent is a rarity today; it’s thought that not many were made in the first place, and shortly after their discovery, a number of examples were confiscated by the government. His confiscation, as it turned out, was a case of ...
Full Article: Coin Monday: The Double: Part Two - Heritage Blog
{ 0 comments }
