For the third straight week, the United States Mint is set to adjust its collector gold coin prices in response to London gold weekly price changes. Expect UHR Gold Double Eagles and First Spouse Gold Coins to rise Wednesday, Oct. 7, around noon ET by $50 and $25, respectively. These coin prices were just lowered [...]
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The United States Mint announced today that it will offer for sale 2009 one-ounce American Buffalo Proof Gold Coins and one-ounce American Eagle Platinum Proof Coins. The release dates for these products are tentatively October 29 and December 3, 2009, respectively. In addition, the agency will release the one-ounce 2009 American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coin [...]
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Demand for the 2009 Kennedy Half Dollar has pushed their mintages higher, September coin production and recent US Mint sales figures seem to indicate.
While the US Mint no longer makes Kennedy Half Dollars for general circulation, they do offer circulating strikes in bags and rolls for coin collectors.
Demand has not been blazingly strong for these in past years. In 2008, the Mint struck 1.7 million in Denver and in Philadelphia, for a total of 3.4 million. The amount was sufficient to cover collector purchases with several thousand left over, as the following table highlights:
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The United States Mint on Monday released the latest circulating coin production figures through to September 2009.
US Mint Circulating Coin Production in September 2009
| Denver | Philadelphia | Total | |
| 2009 Lincoln Cents | 74,000,000 | 19,200,000 | 93,200,000 |
| Jefferson Nickels | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Roosevelt Dimes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quarters | 24,400,000 | 3,800,000 | 27,800,000 |
| Kennedy Half Dollars | 200,000 | 0 | 200,000 |
| Native American $1 | 10,080,000 | 10,080,000 | 20,160,000 |
| Presidential $1s | 12,460,000 | 28,140,000 | 40,600,000 |
| Total | 120,740,000 | 61,220,000 | 181,960,000 |
In summary, the tallies reveal:
US Virgin Islands quarters have earned the lowest total mintage title for any 2009 quarter-dollar
The 2009-P US Virgin Islands quarter has the lowest mintage of any Philadelphia struck quarter
The US Mint facility at Denver in September was much busier than Philadelphia’s
No additional Jefferson nickels or Roosevelt dimes were made
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(Katy, Texas) — Veteran rare coin dealer Paul Montgomery has created what he describes as "a new business model for professional numismatics" and has launched a new Web site (www.PaulMontgomeryonline.com) for his company, Paul Montgomery & Associates, LLC (PMA) of Katy, Texas. "I call it ‘event-driven’ numismatic services. PMA will offer comprehensive, professional assistance [...]
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The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts as well as the Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee have both made their recommendations concerning their favorite designs for the five 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters due out next year from the US Mint, according to Bob Van Ryzin on this week’s Coin Chat Radio during his segment of "What’s [...]
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It has been the Fall week for commemorative news from the US Mint. On Monday it added the Lincoln Coin & Chronicles Set to its online store in preparation for an Oct. 15 debut, and it just announced next week’s release of the United States Mint Braille Education Set.
The set includes an uncirculated Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar with special packaging that has genuine Braille text — a first time event for the US Mint, much like the silver dollar is the first ever coin with readable Braille.
The set will be issued Thursday, Oct 8, at noon Eastern Time for a price of $44.95. Sales are limited to a maximum of 25,000 and a further order limit of one (1) per household will be enforced.
These limits invite the question, will the education set sell out? The previously mentioned Lincoln Chronicles Set has a 50,000 max limit. Many expect those will fall to collector demand on the first day of issue. There is supportive reasoning. Lincoln silver dollars sold out earlier in the year to the tune of 325,00 proof and 125,000 uncirculated. That happened in just over six weeks. 50,000 actually had to be held in reserve for the chronicles set.
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