Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Mike Thorn, Coins Magazine
Of the many topics I’ve discussed in this column, coin photography has not been one of them. The main reason for this lack of discussion is that until fairly recently I’ve not had any expertise or interest in the subject.
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By John Crudele, New York Post
THERE’S a worldwide run on gold coins. Even as the price of the precious metal itself comes under pressure along with commodities like oil and copper, people around the world are demanding so many of the valuable coins that government mints are having difficulty filling orders. A spokesperson for the US Mint tells me that gold coins in this country, for the past month, “are being allocated because of an increased demand.”
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Paul Gilkes, COIN WOLRD
Among coinage struck in the first century of the U.S. Mint’s full-scale operations, beginning in 1793, it is not uncommon to encounter coins struck from dies that rusted because of improper storage. Some coins were struck for circulation from those rusted dies. Other pieces exhibiting rust contamination were struck as restrikes at dates later than the date on the coin, using uncanceled dies sold by the Mint as scrap metal.
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By Ken Potter, Numismatic News
John Rising of Missouri sent in a No Date Wheat cent with a very interesting, rarely seen, error type. At first glance, I knew it was a Brockage-Counter-Brockage strike, but not exactly how it occurred. According to Alan Herbert, even just a Counter-Brockage is one of those error types that you have try to visualize the sequence of what happened step by step to fully comprehend the cause.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By PCGS
On Monday, November 3, 2008, Tim Torpin, fellow coin dealer and beloved friend, husband, and father, died of heart failure following open-heart surgery… Tim was well-known within the numismatic community and greatly respected for his extensive knowledge of American numismatics, his honesty, and especially his goodnature.
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By Susan Headley, About.com: Coins
With the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency, there has been an outpouring of strong emotions among many Americans the likes of which we haven’t seen in relation to a U.S. president since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963… Emotional feelings for Obama are running high, and many people who have no knowledge of coin collecting and what makes a coin valuable are buying coins for the first time.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Scott Barman, Coin Collector’s Blog
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the war to end all wars ended. It is celebrated around the world as Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday. In the United States, a law was passed in 1954 to honor all veterans on November 11 of every year.
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By Mark Ferguson, Coin Values
Coin buying continues and there is no en masse panic selling, although there are individual quick sellers. Long want lists are still in collectors’ and dealers’ hands – still going unfulfilled for months and sometimes years. Pent up demand continues for certain scarce coins and is found for some very common coins.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Jarrett Briscoe, Numismatic News
I think I can offer a perspective not commonly voiced. I would be considered a young collector, not to read uneducated collector. I’m 20. I am also a part-time employee at a local Pittsburgh-based bank. I think both of these factors place me in an interesting position on two topics I’d like to target, the issue of the dollar coin and the ongoing debate about "imperfect" coins.
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From The West Australian
A historic Chinese coin from the Ch’ing Dynasty has been discovered in an archeological dig in the heart of Darwin. The excavation began in a vacant lot behind the Sue Wah Chin building in the city centre on September 22, ahead of the lot’s redevelopment. Constructed in the 1880s, the building is testament to the establishment and expansion of the Chinese community in the Northern Territory.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Cindy Brake, COIN WORLD
The term "Uncirculated Mint set" is a bit of a misnomer because the coins in the special packages were originally intended for circulation albeit they never entered circulation. In 1948 the United States Mint began offering the annual Uncirculated Mint sets. The first sets include coins dated 1947. Later in 1948, 1948 sets were offered.
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By Ken Potter, Numismatic News
Still, it was my opinion that you only had to take a look at the design to see that this aberration was going to repeat itself over and over again on many dies. Where you have extensive areas of design that are relatively close to the field even when the dies are new, (as we have on this coin), it stands to reason they will be abraded and worn away much easier and more often than coins that feature generally deeper designs throughout.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Laura Hannam, MK News
As the credit crunch hits pensioners across the country one pair have hit the jackpot by finding buried treasure. The finders of a hoard of thousands of Roman coins agree with the words inscribed on them; ‘happy times are here again’. The collection of bronze coins, which may be worth hundreds of thousands in sterling, were discovered in a field north of Newport Pagnell…
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By Scott Barman, Coin Collector’s Blog
For us numismatists, Roosevelt initiated the "Golden Age of American Coin Design." Using his bully pulpit, he held the designs of the US Mint’s Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber in contempt and ordered coinage whose designs were more than 25 years old to be redesigned. Roosevelt was a fan of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and asked Saint-Gaudens to redesign the small cent.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Here are today’s articles:
By Gina Teel, Calgary Herald
Safe-haven investors are on a shopping spree for precious metals, snapping up gold and silver as an antidote to topsy-turvy markets — if they can find any, that is. Demand for physical gold and silver is gobbling up product at nearly every mint around the globe and in Canada has the Royal Canadian Mint allocating its supply among its distributors, who in turn are limiting the number of coins they sell to dealers, who sell to consumers.
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By Richard Giedroyc, World Coin News
Members of the Federation Internationale de la Medal (FIDEM) have discussed for years the question regarding where to draw the fine line between when a free standing art medal is no longer a medal, but becomes a piece of sculpture. Perhaps a similar question should be asked regarding some non-circulating legal tender commemorative coins.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Have you written or know of an article that should be highlighted on CoinNews? Please let us know! Here are today’s articles:
By Jane Bryant Quinn, Bloomberg.com
Gold is for rich guys — buying physical gold, that is. The metal’s highest and best investment use is as insurance policy against a currency collapse. For that purpose, you need a lot of it, stored around the world. Owning 20 or 30 coins is nice but won’t protect your standard of living in a world where dollars are dust. Gold isn’t even a reliable hedge against inflation. It reached $850 an ounce in January 1980, a price not seen again until January 2008.
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By Tom Michael, Big Ideas, Little World
…the time has come to expand our perspectives a bit… you can see my work soon in future postings to these two new catagories. What is it? will provide an outlet for readers to send me an image of a coin they are having trouble identifying, along with a brief rundown of what they have done up to the frustration point in way of trying to catalog their item. Where to Find it will be a feature catagory for Big Ideas, little world, in which I will give readers some direction for good paths to coin collecting.
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Four numismatic articles are referenced on CoinNews every Tuesday and Thursday. These articles are not authored by us, but we recommend collectors read them for their unusual or interesting content. Have you written or know of an article that should be highlighted on CoinNews? Please let us know! Here are today’s articles:
By Paul Gilkes, COIN WORLD
Silver bullion is bought and sold in various forms for a multitude of reasons including investment, collecting, diversifying assets or as a hedge against inflation. What form of silver bullion to buy is a common question among those thinking about acquiring quantities of the metal. According to GoldPrice.org (online at www.goldprice.org), silver bullion is marketed as silver nuggets; bars, wafers and rounds; and as coins.
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By David L. Ganz, Numismatic News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average October plummet and the worldwide consequences of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy and its stock going from a 52-week high of more than $50 to a low of about eight cents a share, has brought unparalleled activity in the numismatic market. It has also in the face of wild price swings made rare coins appear to be the pillar of stability.
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