Monthly Archives: July 2018
Gold Logs New 1-Year Low, Silver Lowest Since April 2016
Silver, platinum and palladium dropped for a fifth straight session on Thursday, while gold fell for its fourth loss in five sessions and to a new 2018 low. Silver's close was its weakest in more than two years.
Gold for August delivery lost $3.90, or 0.3%, to settle at $1,224 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
Heritage World and Ancient Coins & Paper Money Sale in Hong...
Led by strong bidding across the board, especially for Chinese coins and currency, Heritage Auctions' World Coins & Ancient Coins Auction and its World Currency Auction in Hong Kong combined to bring $4.38 million.
With a combined sell-through rate of 94 percent by value, the events added up to the company's third-largest event ever held in Hong Kong. When combined, the two events yielded the second-highest average lot value of any Heritage event in Hong Kong: $2,946 [...]
SBG August 2018 ANA Sale Features World and Ancient Coins &...
Stack's Bowers Galleries (StacksBowers.com) is pleased to announce details of their upcoming World Coin, Ancient Coin & World Paper Money Auction, to be held in conjunction with the 2018 ANA World's Fair of Money between August 14 and 18. The event will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
The Ancient and World Coin sale will be offered on two days, with Session A commencing on Tuesday August 14, at 9:00 AM ET in Room 115A of the Convention Center [...]
US Mint Sales: 2018-W Uncirculated Gold Eagle Debuts
This year's uncirculated American Gold Eagle from the West Point Mint moved faster out of the sales gate than past issues.
U.S. Mint sales figures published today show collectors grabbed 4,149 of the coins in the four days since its Thursday release. That more than doubles last year's debut, and ranks at the top of the pack against other recent starts [...]
Gold Edges Up From One-Year Low
Silver, platinum and palladium declined for a fourth straight session Wednesday. Gold, meanwhile, edged up from its lowest price in a year for its first gain in four sessions.
Gold for August delivery rose 60 cents, or less than 0.1%, to settle at $1,227.90 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
Gold and Silver Now at 1-Year Lows
Precious metals futures on Tuesday declined as a group for a third straight session. Both gold and silver posted their lowest settlements in just over a year.
Gold for August delivery shed $12.40, or 1%, to finish at $1,227.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
US Mint Gold Coin Prices May Decline Wed., July 18
On Wednesday, July 18, the United States Mint may cut prices on one and one-half dozen numismatic gold products.
The U.S. Mint's collection of gold coins have prices that can change weekly based on the trending value of gold as compared against its 2018 pricing matrix [...]
NGC Certifies New York Bank Hoard of Morgan Dollars
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has certified the New York Bank Hoard, a group of 16,000 Morgan Dollars that had been stored in sealed US Treasury bags for more than 50 years. The remarkably well-preserved hoard boasts a number of high grade pieces, including 118 that graded NGC MS 67.
Each canvas US Treasury bag in the New York Bank Hoard contained 1,000 Uncirculated Morgan Dollars of the same date and mintmark combination [...]
Heritage Auctions Offers Book About Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles
The definitive resource on the history of one of the world's most popular collector coins, Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles as Illustrated by the Phillip H. Morse and Steven Duckor Collections, written by Roger Burdette and edited by Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin and U.S. Coins Chief Cataloger Mark Van Winkle, is now available through the firm's website, HA.com.
Widely accepted as the most detailed resource ever compiled about these popular coins, the book covers every die variety available to Burdette, a multiple winner of the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) Book of the Year Award [...]
Gold and Silver Log Fresh 2018 Lows
Precious metals futures on Monday fell as a group for a second straight session. Gold and silver marked fresh milestone lows that reached nearly one year for gold and over seven months for silver.
Gold for August delivery declined $1.50, or 0.1%, to end at $1,239.70 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]