Monthly Archives: August 2008
Gold Falls for Fifth Consecutive Day, Silver and Platinum Follow
Heritage Donates $8,000 for ANA Club Representative Program
ANA Board of Governors Votes to Hold 2011 World’s Fair of...
Central States Numismatic Society Donates $50,000 to the ANA
Staples-Lyon Appointed to Royal Canadian Mint Board
Controversial 1853 United States Assay Office $20 Coins Declared Transfer Die...
Experts at the Society of Private and Pioneer Numismatists (SPPN) meeting settle four decades of uncertainty
A panel of leading numismatists determined the questionable 1853 United States Assay Office of Gold $20 proof, prooflike, and similar coins to be forgeries produced from transfer dies.
The panel's discussion was the main program at the annual meeting of the Society of Private and Pioneer Numismatists held in Baltimore, Maryland Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 as part of the American Numismatic Association's World Fair of Money.
The Transfer Die Forgeries first appeared during the late 1950's, "discovered" by Paul Franklin through a bank teller in Arizona. Franklin and John J. Ford Jr. sold hundreds of these pieces throughout the 1960's as genuine pieces struck in San Francisco by the U.S. Assay Office in 1853.
U.S. Mint Pulls American Eagle Platinum Products
U.S. Mint Treats Media to Gold
Gold Drops Below $900 as Oil Weakens and Dollar Gains
2008 Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Set Announced
2008 Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin Sets will be available for purchase on Thursday, August 7 at 12:00 noon ET.
The United States Mint today announced that each set is priced at $37.95, and will include this year's four Presidential $1 Coins minted in Philadelphia with the "P" mint mark.
- James Monroe $1 coin,
- John Quincy Adams $1 coin,
- Andrew Jackson $1 coin, and the
- Martin Van Buren $1 coin
Plus, the two remaining 2008 denominated dollar coins:
- Sacagawea Golden Dollar, and an
- American Eagle uncirculated silver dollar
The Sacagawea $1 is minted in Denver with a "D" mint mark while the American Eagle Silver dollar bears the mint mark "W" indicating it was minted at West Point.