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Gold closed to a record high Tuesday as a report surfaced suggesting oil producers could toss the US dollar and...

For the third straight week, the United States Mint is set to adjust its collector gold coin prices in response to London gold...

The United States Mint announced today that it will offer for sale 2009 one-ounce American Buffalo Proof Gold Coins and one-ounce American Eagle Platinum...

Demand for the 2009 Kennedy Half Dollar has pushed their mintages higher, September coin production and recent US Mint sales figures seem to indicate.

While the US Mint no longer makes Kennedy Half Dollars for general circulation, they do offer circulating strikes in bags and rolls for coin collectors.

Demand has not been blazingly strong for these in past years. In 2008, the Mint struck 1.7 million in Denver and in Philadelphia, for a total of 3.4 million. The amount was sufficient to cover collector purchases with several thousand left over, as the following table highlights:

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Too Fast and Too Furious - Istanbul Drift Good Day, Gold's incursion at figures above the $1000 level continued overnight, as the dollar came under...

The United States Mint on Monday released the latest circulating coin production figures through to September 2009.

US Mint Circulating Coin Production in September 2009

	Denver	Philadelphia	Total
2009 Lincoln Cents	74,000,000	19,200,000	93,200,000
Jefferson Nickels	0	0	0
Roosevelt Dimes	0	0	0
Quarters	24,400,000	3,800,000	27,800,000
Kennedy Half Dollars	200,000	0	200,000
Native American $1	10,080,000	10,080,000	20,160,000
Presidential $1s	12,460,000	28,140,000	40,600,000
Total	120,740,000	61,220,000	181,960,000

In summary, the tallies reveal:

• US Virgin Islands quarters have earned the lowest total mintage title for any 2009 quarter-dollar

• The 2009-P US Virgin Islands quarter has the lowest mintage of any Philadelphia struck quarter

• The US Mint facility at Denver in September was much busier than Philadelphia's

• No additional Jefferson nickels or Roosevelt dimes were made

• There was a significant monthly drop in 2009 Lincoln cents and quarters

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The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts as well as the Citizen's Coinage Advisory Committee have both made their recommendations concerning their favorite designs ...

Precious metals were mixed with mostly narrow weekly movement as the metals followed the ups and downs of the US dollar. In London,...