In 2012, London will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the most prestigious sporting events in the world. To commemorate this auspicious occasion, the Royal Mint was joined by Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington OBE to launch the first Countdown Coin, a special £5 coin counting down three years to the exciting event. Rebecca comments: [...]
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Four numismatic news or coin blog articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend coin collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles: Mint says law won’t allow Niagara Falls on new quarter series Maki Becker | The Buffalo [...]
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Ultra High Relief (UHR) $20 gold coins break a new threshold and Braille Commemorative Silver Dollar sales soar, according to the latest US Mint sales report.
Ultra High Relief (UHR) $20 gold coin sales cooled off compared to the last figures, but rose above the magic 60,000 barrier. With an average price of around $1200 each, the total is quite impressive.
In a surprise for the second straight week, sales of Louis Braille Silver Dollars shot up… really shot up. Proofs jumped by 38.1 percent over the prior numbers, with 21,636 additional sold. The uncirculated options rose by nearly 30 percent, with 10,200 more purchased by collectors.
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The United States Mint has halted production of circulating 2009 Jefferson nickels and 2009 Roosevelt dimes for the rest of this year, according to the latest issue of Coin World. As the dime and nickel production graphs show, the stoppage creates historic, staggering low mintages for the two coins — levels not seen since the 50s.
Coin Word’s Paul Gilkes reports the US Mint made the announcement on April 23, and included details of a scale back in producing for other circulating coins, like the three remaining 2009 Lincoln Pennies.
It’s not that the public or collectors dislike the new coins. Quite the opposite, in fact. Collector demand for 2009 circulating coinage is exceptionally high. It’s all about the recession. It has, by itself, significantly eroded demand for new coins in every day transactions.
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Chaired by Representative Barney Frank, D-Mass, the 70-member House Financial Services Committee has adopted new rules that will make it significantly harder to authorize new commemorative coins and Congressional Gold Medals. The House of Representatives, and its committees, routinely sets new rules to determine how it will operate. This particular change is intended to prevent [...]
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The US Mint on Thursday at noon ET will begin offering a newly designed Multi-Lens Collector’s Box for $16.95, plus $4.95 for shipping and handling. The product is advertised as a "one-size-fits-all storage solution" that is customizable with movable dividers and will hold old and new US Mint silver and clad sets. To date, the [...]
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Sales of 2009 Silver Eagle Bullion Coins are blistering hot, with an incredible record-breaking pace of 9.64 million sold through Monday, April 27, according to the latest US Mint sales stats.
Total Silver Eagle Bullion Coin Sales, Jan-Apr (2000-2009)*
*Total for April shows reported US Mint sales up through April 27.
More silver eagles have been sold during February, March and even an unfinished April than any corresponding month since the American Eagle series was launched in 1986. What happened in January 2009? It was a great month for the eagles as well, coming in second place behind the record sales in January 2008.
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