Monthly Archives: January 2011
2011 Australian $1 Uncirculated Coin Features Ram
The iconic image of a ram's head will once again grace Australia's newest $1 coin as revealed on New Year's Day at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra.
Originally appearing on the one shilling from 1938 to 1963, the Royal Australian Mint has returned to this familiar design to recognise one of Australia's longest running industries.
"This new $1 ram's head coin design continues our celebration in 2011 of [...]
2010 Gold Eagle Proof Four-Coin Set Sells Out
The latest United States Mint product to sell out is the 2010 Gold Eagle Proof Four-Coin Set.
The set, which includes the one-ounce, one-half ounce, one-quarter ounce, and one-tenth ounce Gold Eagle Proof coins, sold out Monday afternoon.
With its disappearance, collectors will no longer have a direct path from the US Mint to purchase the one-ounce and one-half ounce sizes as these sold out earlier [...]
Cin-Cin! Win-Win! – Monday Kitcommentary
New Year's Eve (likely) champagne-induced cheer morphed into unimpaired optimism as the first financial market sessions of 2011 opened for trading overnight and this morning.
The apparent "resolutions" among investors, at least at this early stage of the annual yield-chasing game, are ones of...adding weight -- to the profit side of their asset books, that is [...]
Gold Prices Mark 10th Annual Gain, Silver Soars 83.7%, Palladium Leads...
Gold, silver, platinum and palladium ended the final day in 2010 higher, capping sweeping double-digit annual gains in precious metals prices.
Gold futures prices for February delivery settled to a record high of $1,421.40 an ounce on the Comex in New York, marking its 10th straight annual gain with an impressive 29.7 percent increase over [...]