(Fallbrook, California) — The Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) has agreed to continue working with the International Association of Professional Numismatists (IAPN) to oppose irrational bans on the importation of coins into the United States. PNG will provide $12,000 toward the work.
"The PNG Board of Directors unanimously agreed to contribute the funds to assist IAPN in its lobbying efforts to combat unfair import restrictions. We are concerned that overzealous Customs Bureau agents may unfairly misconstrue even well-meaning regulations by mistakenly claiming that any undocumented ancient coin is a stolen cultural property artifact of another country," said PNG Executive Director Robert Brueggeman.
"This is a frustrating and ironic situation," said PNG President Paul Montgomery. "The U.S. already has agreements with Cyprus and China that hinder the importation of coins that may have widely circulated centuries ago and, in fact, are now easily available for purchase by the public in those countries. Yet, Customs officials are seemingly doing nothing to stop the egregious importation into the U.S. of counterfeit coins from China and elsewhere." Read the rest of this entry »
(Las Vegas, Nevada) — The Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) will conduct its second "PNG Dealer’s Deal" show in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 18 and 19, 2009. The show again will be held at Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino on "The Strip."
"Our first ‘Dealer’s Deal’ last December was very well received," said Gary Adkins, PNG President. "It was a low key event without the hustle and bustle, commotion and distractions you encounter at a big convention, so people were able to conduct business in a very personal, unrushed manner."
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(Los Angeles, California) — Award-winning numismatic author, acclaimed researcher, well-known dealer, Q. David Bowers, chairman of Stack’s and numismatic director of Whitman Publishing LLC, will be the featured speaker at the Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) Share the Knowledge seminar during the American Numismatic Association (ANA) World’s Fair of Money convention in Los Angeles.
"An Hour with Dave Bowers" is the latest in the continuing series of free PNG educational seminars for collectors and dealers being conducted at shows around the country. The program featuring Bowers will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, August 7, 2009, in room 511-B of the Los Angeles Convention Center West Hall, site of the ANA convention. A complimentary light lunch will be available for audience members.
Bowers will take questions from the audience and discuss his involvement with the hobby starting in 1953 as a teenaged coin dealer, a role that landed him as a young guest on the NBC-TV Today Show in 1957 as well as subsequent appearances years later. Read the rest of this entry »
(Fallbrook, California) – A 14-year old Northern Ohio student who enjoys collecting Morgan silver dollars struck at the Carson City Mint and also Peace dollars has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Professional Numismatists Guild Young Numismatist Scholarship.
Grant Buehrer of Maumee, Ohio will receive airfare, meals, six nights of accommodations and tuition to attend a week-long session of this year’s American Numismatic Association’s Summer Seminar on the campus of Colorado College, site of the ANA headquarters.
"I began collecting when I was nine, but really got into it when I got my Dad’s collection when I was ten," said Buehrer who will enter ninth grade in the fall and is thinking about a career in medicine or biochemical engineering.
There are several ANA Summer Seminar classes he’d like to take: intermediate U.S. coin grading, photography, the art of money, and Morgan silver dollars. "I also would like to know more about gold," he added.
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(Cincinnati, Ohio) – The Professional Numismatists Guild will host a free "PNG Share the Knowledge" educational seminar about modern coins during the 70th annual Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS) convention.
Scott Schechter, Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the Certified Collectibles Group, will present "Modern Coins – Everything You Need to Know" at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 1, 2009, in room 237 of the Duke Energy Center in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, site of the CSNS convention.
Certified Collectibles Group is the parent company of Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), the official grading service of the PNG.
A complimentary light lunch will be available for audience members.
The seminar will focus on U.S. and world mint issues, both circulating and non-circulating legal tender (NCLT), and on the certification of modern coins including the best practices for submission and coin selection. Read the rest of this entry »
(Fallbrook, California) – Nominations for the 2009 awards are being sought by the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.com), according to PNG Executive Director Robert Brueggeman and President Gary Adkins.
"Each year we ask collectors and dealers to nominate candidates in a half dozen award categories to formally recognize achievements in various areas of the hobby and profession," said Brueggeman.
"These prestigious awards will be formally announced at the annual PNG Day summer banquet that will be held this year in Los Angeles, California on August 4," explained Adkins.
Nominations should be made directly to the appropriate award category chair. The categories and contacts are: Read the rest of this entry »
(Fallbrook, California) – The Board of Directors of the Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) is praising the American Numismatic Association for making significant progress in resolving the association’s cash problems, and urging ANA members to carefully consider the qualifications of candidates running in this year’s elections.
"The ANA Board, Executive Director Larry Shepherd and his staff have made bold and often tough decisions to improve the association’s financial situation. The changes may not make everyone happy, but that sometimes happens when management must confront the kinds of problems the new leadership inherited when they took office in 2007," said Gary Adkins, PNG President.
"If a candidate can not read a balance sheet or can’t be bothered to learn how, that person should certainly not be elected to the ANA Board no matter how much he or she knows about numismatics. It’s that crucial given the financial problems facing the association," Adkins emphasized. Read the rest of this entry »
(Edina, Minnesota) — The following brief statement was issued today by the Professional Numismatists Guild regarding the introduction of the first of four new reverse side designs of the familiar Lincoln cent going into circulation this year.
"Based on the overwhelming success of the recently-ended 50 states quarters program, I expect the excellent new Lincoln cents designs will be quite popular with the public. But based on their utter lack of buying power and the costs to produce them, I wonder how much longer pennies will continue to be minted," said Gary Adkins of Edina, Minnesota, President of the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.com), a non-profit organization composed of the country’s top rare coin dealers.
"The United States stopped making half-cent denomination coins in 1857. The time may be near for halting production of billions of cents every year."
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(Fallbrook, California) – For the fifth consecutive year, the Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) will provide a scholarship to send a deserving young numismatist to the annual American Numismatic Association (ANA) Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The scholarship will cover airfare, tuition for one of the two week-long Summer Seminar sessions in June or July, meals and six nights of dormitory accommodations on the campus of Colorado College, site of the ANA headquarters.
"We again are inviting all young numismatists between the ages of 13 and 22 to apply for the PNG scholarship. To be eligible for consideration, entrants must submit a short essay outlining why they should be chosen as the scholarship recipient. The deadline for receipt of the entries is March 31, 2009," said Robert Brueggeman, PNG Executive Director.
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(Las Vegas, NV) – The first Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) "Dealer’s Deal" show attracted nearly 100 PNG member-dealers and invited guests at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, December 10 and 11, 2008. Plans now are being considered for expanding the show in 2009.
"This was exactly the kind of small, primarily dealer-to-dealer show we anticipated. It gave PNG members an opportunity to casually conduct business with each other, with some invited non-PNG dealers and some members of the public without the frequent distractions of the typical coin show," said Robert Brueggeman, PNG Executive Director. Read the rest of this entry »
