The United States Mint today at noon ET began selling bags and rolls of 2010 Grand Canyon National Park Quarters.
The coins are the fourth release in the debuting America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program which will feature at least 56 different designs that honor national parks and other national sites at a rate of five each year until 2021.
Grand Canyon Quarter bags are available for a price of $35.95 while Grand Canyon Quarter two-roll sets cost $32.95.
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Good Morning, The US dollar fell to five-week lows near 81 on the trade-weighted index and some commodity markets headed higher overnight, as the waiting game for Fed policy hints began to take hold among global investors. Recent speculative talk of a second round of quantitative easing remained at the front and center of investors’ [...]
Precious metals rallied this week as gold closed at a fresh record for a third time and silver reached a 30-year high. The yellow metal rose 2.5 percent this week, its sixth weekly increase in the past seven weeks. Silver nearly doubled gold’s percent gain, jumping 4.9 percent. Platinum led the metals, advancing 5.1 percent. [...]
The United States Mint has announced that the 2010 American Eagle Gold Proof Coin series will go on sale Thursday, October 7, 2010, at 12:00 noon Eastern Time. The news is welcome to coin collectors who remember that last year’s proof eagles were canceled.
The US Mint will offer four different sizes of the 22-karat gold coins, with each at different price points and with their own mintage limits. Additionally, buyers can purchase a four-coin set that includes all the eagles in a single attractive presentation case.
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Good Morning, Gold’s sentiment-al journey continued virtually uninterrupted overnight as the ‘another day; must mean another record’ mentality remained manifest among spec funds. In effect it has become rather difficult to discern whether such daily gains (absent any substantive news of the really worrisome kind) are fueling sentiment or whether sentiment is fueling the subsequent [...]
U.S. gold prices reached a fresh new high on Thursday, marking the second time this week a new record level was hit. Gold edged up 0.4 percent. Precious metals were mixed for the day, however. Platinum also gained 0.4 percent while silver advanced 1.0 percent. Palladium plummeted 1.8 percent. In other markets, crude oil prices [...]
United States Mint coin sales figures dipped for a second straight week following higher levels during the prior two.
The numbers were lifted weeks back with the release of a core annual product, the 2010 Silver Proof Set. Last week’s sales report, while less robust overall, did show increasing First Spouse Gold Coin demand. But then those were helped by the launch of Buchanan’s Liberty. There was not any new US Mint releases to support other products this time around, and the numbers show it.
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Good Morning, Thursday’s early action in gold yielded yet another price record; this one, but a dime short of the $1,280.00 spot offer level. The market opened with a $6.80 per ounce gain at $1,275.00 and as shown on the Kitco Gold Index, the increase was due in equal parts to fresh physical offtake and [...]
The United States Mint on Monday said that in 2011 it will release annual products much earlier than in past years, with core mint and proof sets available in January 2011.
Specifically mentioned in the US Mint’s news announcement were the 2011 Proof Set, the 2011 Silver Proof Set and the uncirculated 2011 Mint Set. Their early January launch will mark the first time in at least a decade that major products will be available so early into a year.
The front-loaded released schedule is a part of the Mint’s long term plan first discussed by U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy in 2008 when it significantly trimmed its portfolio to focus resources on core offerings.
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Good Morning, Gold prices continued to hover near all-time record levels following the spectacular push by speculative funds on Tuesday. The $10 overshoot of the previous $1,265 pinnacle naturally brought with it a rising and louder chorus of chants calling for more of the same. Even as the latest GMFS opinion that gold might visit [...]
