Yearly Archives: 2012
2012 American Buffalo Gold Proof Coin Released
Today, March 15, 2012, the United States Mint started to accept orders for the 2012-W $50 American Buffalo Gold Proof Coin at an opening price of $1,960.00.
Now in the seventh year in the series, the collectible is the purest U.S. Mint gold product with its composition of 24 karat, or 99.99%, fine gold minted to a weight of one ounce. Every Buffalo gold coin features the profile of a Native American on the obverse and an American buffalo on the reverse images that first appeared [...]
Gold, Silver Prices Tumble as Bullion Silver Eagles Top 9M
Gold and silver prices spiraled south Wednesday on what has been described as fallout from Tuesday's FOMC statement which eliminated speculation for QE3 any time soon.
Falling for a third straight day and to a 2-month low, gold prices declined $51.30, or 3.0%, to settle at $1,642.90 an ounce in the April futures contract on the Comex in New York. Gold's intraday low and high prices were $1,635.80 and $1,682.80 [...]
2012-W Proof Buffalo Gold Debut Price Set, Other US Coin Prices...
Although gold prices dived Wednesday, the weekly London Fix average for the yellow metal remained high enough to keep U.S. Mint numismatic gold coin prices unchanged and set the $1,960.00 opening price for the 2012-W Proof Buffalo Gold Coin which launches Thursday at 12:00 noon ET.
Gold has been trending downward since the afternoon of February 29 -- exactly two weeks ago -- when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified [...]
US Mint Sales: 102,000+ Silver Dollar Commemorative Coins Sold in Week
Commemorative coins of the silver dollar variety have been stealing the U.S. Mint sales limelight since the Infantry Soldier products debuted in mid-February.
With the new Star-Spangled Banner coins now thrown into the mix, the landscape turned more silver'ish, according to the latest U.S. Mint sales figures. In a single week, collectors scooped up 102,554 silver dollars from the Mint's two commemorative programs. A combined 218,468 have now sold. Split out, totals come to [...]
In The Lead – Withdrawal Symptoms
The midweek sessions in precious metals started off at sharply lower price levels in the wake of the sentiment that took hold post the Fed announcement that given current economic conditions it has opted to do nothing more than monitor the situation.
Gold prices traded as low as just under the pivotal $1,650 support level (to which we alluded last week as 'being in play') overnight and they opened with heavy losses that swelled to over $31 an ounce, with the yellow metal touching the $1,641.00 mark in New York within the first half hour of trading action [...]
Three Ancient Judaean Coins Realize Nearly $3M at Heritage Auctions
A trio of historic Judaean coins realized nearly $3 million on March 8-9 as part of The Shoshana Collection of Ancient Judaean Coin, offered by Heritage Auctions in a special event at The Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute of America).
The collection, consisting of more than 1,800 coins in total, is expected to realize more than $10 million over multiple auctions this year, the first of which began with this auction [...]
Gold Settles $5.60 Lower, Silver Gains 17 Cents
Gold closed lower for a second straight session as a firmer U.S. dollar provided resistance. The greenback strengthened as Federal Reserve policy makers said in a statement Tuesday that inflation remains subdued and that market conditions have improved, while providing few clues for further monetary easing.
Gold prices lost $5.60, or 0.3%, to $1,694.20 an ounce in the April futures contract on the Comex in New York. Gold touched an intraday low of [...]
US Mint 2012 Birth Set Released
Introducing a specially designed keepsake for newborns and marking a first product of its kind, the United States Mint on Tuesday released the 2012 Birth Set for $19.95.
Included with the Birth Set are five collector coins struck at the U.S. Mint facility in San Francisco, California.
These coins are mounted on a baby-themed folder which includes spaces for a personalized message, the baby's date and time of birth, and length and weight, a three-by four-inch photograph area and a lock of hair [...]
Strong Sales Debut for Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins
Debut sales for the collectible gold and silver Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins have been released by the United States Mint.
These figures, issued Monday, March 12, 2012, indicate strong demand for both the gold and the silver coins with a sizable percentage of their respective maximum mintages already sold. Perhaps more interesting, albeit not particularly surprising to many, is that sales of the two-coin proof set has outpaced the individual gold coins [...]
GreatCollections to Auction Turino Collection of U.S. Coins
GreatCollections is proud to auction a group of U.S. coins called the Turino Collection. While the collection contains coins of all price ranges, the highlights include an NGC MS-67 classic High Relief and a complete classic gold Commemorative set.
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt recruited Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create what has become the most classic coin in U.S. history. GreatCollections is offering two examples of the High Relief in the auction, the finest being an NGC MS-67 example, which ranks [...]