The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) on Wednesday launched the second and final 2009 $2 Single Notes installment, featuring crisp banknotes representative of Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco. The price for each is $7.95. Ten notes in total are available this year. The first 2009 $2 Single Note installment in June [...]
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Coin collectors aggressively purchased bags and rolls of American Samoa Quarters during the initial launch week, but totals are slightly lower than the inaugural several day sales of the prior Guam quarter-dollars. That could change. The US Mint just posted new coin production figures on Monday. American Samoa quarter mintages are actually lower than those [...]
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The American Numismatic Association presents its Medal of Merit annually to members who have dedicated years of service to the ANA and the hobby. This year, Raymond W. Dillard and Jeffrey Swindling will be recognized during an awards ceremony Aug. 7 at the ANA World’s Fair of Money® in Los Angeles. Dillard, of Fenton, Michigan, [...]
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Kern-Carter 1880 Coiled Hair Stella leads July 31-Aug.2 event with $546,250 DALLAS, TX — An 1880 $4 Coiled Hair Stella, Judd-1660, Pollock-1860, Low R.7, PR62 NGC — a gorgeous example of the timeless design of George Morgan — realized $546,250 at Heritage Auction Galleries’ July 31-Aug. 2 Los Angeles U.S. Coin Auction, leading the almost [...]
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August 4: 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 coin articles: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Penny TIME Aug. 2, 2009, [...]
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A US District Court Judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that the US government acted improperly in seizing what could be the most valuable US gold coins known to be in existence today. At the heart of the matter are ten 1933 Saint-Gaudens $20 Gold Double Eagles. These coins were said to have been found in [...]
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2009 American Samoa Quarters enjoy the distinction of having the lowest mintages of any quarter for many, many years, new US Mint production figures released Monday reveal. Coin collectors will revel in the news, making the territories’ quarter products ever more desirable.
2009 Quarter Mintage Figures
| 2009 Quarters |
Denver
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Philadelphia
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Total
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| District of Columbia | 88,800,000 | 83,600,000 | 172,400,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 86,000,000 | 53,000,000 | 139,200,000 |
| Guam | 42,600,000 | 45,000,000 | 87,600,000 |
| American Samoa | 39,600,000 | 42,600,000 | 82,200,000 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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2009 Total Quarter Production: 481,400,000
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Surprisingly, the figures are not as low as perhaps expected. They nearly mirror the extremely low Guam levels. 82,200,000 American Samoa quarters were produced, with 42.6 million of those struck in Philadelphia and 39.6 million at Denver.
That accounts for nearly 94 percent of the Guam production. But for the starkest contrast, it represents just 47.7 percent of the mintage totals for the District of Columbia quarter. And comparing the total against any single state quarter is laughable.
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An earlier year Senate bill calling for .995 pure palladium one-ounce UHR $20 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle coins was joined by a House version introduced Thursday, July 30, by Rep. Dennis Rehberg [R-MT]. Both bills seek to produce "coins in palladium to provide affordable opportunities for investments in precious metals."
House Resolution 3405, the Original Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle Ultra-High Relief Bullion Coin Act of 2009, is nearly identical to the same named Senate bill, S. 758, brought forward by Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT] on April 1.
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