Monthly Archives: September 2012

Gold retreated from a seven-month high Friday but still scored a quarterly 10.6% pick-up, its best quarter in more than two years.

Gold was not the lone commodity to rise during the July-September period. The precious metals complex was rowdy across-the-board with companion quarterly gains of over 25% for silver, nearly 15% for platinum and almost 10% for palladium [...]

Before the Senate adjourned for a recess that will last until after the November elections, H.R. 2453, the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Act, was approved with amendments by Unanimous Consent.

With that, the amended bill will need a nod from the House and a signature from the President and commemorative coins honoring Mark Twain will be issued in 2016 [...]

The United States Mint overnight rolled out another series of tweaks to its website at www.usmint.gov. The most visible changes appear within the pages of its online store.

Featured U.S. Mint products and new announcements are shown front and center. This page currently includes an announcement about the improvements the U.S. Mint is making [...]

Gold rebounded from a two-week low on Wednesday to a seven-month high on Thursday as buying sparked from news of austerity steps in Spain and hopes for new stimulus measures in China.

Gold prices for December delivery rallied $26.90, or 1.5%, to $1,780.50 an ounce on the Comex in New York -- the biggest gain since September 13. The settlement price was the highest since [...]

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken the first photographs of a camera calibration target that actually includes a classic United States coin. Found in the target is a 1909 V.D.B. Lincoln Cent.

The century old coin and other calibration devices are used by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager ( MAHLI) to test its performance. MAHLI is capable of focusing on objects as close as 2.1 centimeters up to infinity [...]

Precious metals prices headed substantially lower this morning as European and Fed-related worries resurfaced with a vengeance only two or so weeks after markets envisioned certain developments to open up a one-way path to significantly higher prices.

Spot gold fell to well under the $1,750 pivot point, losing about $23 per ounce in the process and showing a bid at $1,738 at last check, very near a fairly important support level (the next one comes around $1,723 per ounce) [...]

New collector products with release dates in November and December were added to the U.S. Mint's product schedule this week.

In a bit of a surprise, no products are currently scheduled for release in October [...]