Monthly Archives: September 2013

Gold and silver jumped for their first quarterly gain in a year, despite logging deep monthly losses.

In United States Mint bullion coins for September, American Silver Eagle sales slowed a bit but maintained a record annual pace while American Gold Eagles improved over the [...]

The Perth Mint of Australia expands its Lunar Series II program with several new 2014 Year of the Horse Gold and Silver Coins.

Compositions of the strikes include 99.99% pure gold or 99.9% pure silver and encompass proof quality colored gold coins, silver gemstone coins, silver gilded coins, colored silver coins and a silver typeset collection [...]

Ending at 5 PM Eastern Time today, September 30, is the free standard shipping sale by the United States Mint.

It has been available since July 26, but now the deadline has arrived to receive $4.95 off the shipping fee for orders placed on the Mint's website [...]

Precious metals advanced Friday but only gold and palladium scored weekly gains. Their increases tallied to a modest 0.5% for gold and a healthier 1.4% for palladium. Silver on the week dipped 0.4% while platinum dropped 0.9%.

Last week, gold survey participants leaned bullish. This week's survey from Kitco tips further bullish with [...]

Half of the nation's coins for circulation are made at the United States Mint facility in Philadelphia, but it also makes products for investors and collectors like the America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Coins.

I was captivated by how the three-inch coins are produced from a single multi-stroke press. It operates so much differently than the Philadelphia Mint's more than 60 presses that make circulating coins. Enter the impressive German-made Grabener 1000 press, capable of striking 40 coins a minute with up to 1000 tons of pressure [...]

In August, with more than 3,700 lots of world and ancient coins and paper money, Stack's Bowers and Ponterio realized $9,807,440 at the Chicago ANA World's Fair of Money.

Stack's Bowers Galleries was the Official Auctioneer for the show that ran from August 11 to August 16 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois [...]

Gold and silver declined for the fourth time in five sessions as the U.S. dollar firmed Thursday against other world currencies.

Silver for December delivery dipped 12 cents, or 0.6%, to $21.77 an ounce, ranging from $21.67 to $22.13 [...]

A drop in prices followed by an immediate two-day run up in precious metals boosted sales of United States Mint platinum and gold coins.

On top of that, the release of Fort McHenry Quarters Three-Coin Sets sparked sales across a range of America the Beautiful Quarter products [...]

Gold, silver and platinum registered a third straight session of declines Tuesday. Palladium bucked the trends, rising for the first time since Thursday.

Gold for December delivery settled down $10.70, or 0.8%, to $1,316.30 an ounce. Trading action [...]