PCGS Announces New “Genuine” Service for Coin Collectors and Dealers
New 11-Year Series of Quarters Proposed for National Parks and Sites
Collectors Finance Corporation Offers Increased Coin Loan Levels
Heritage Posts $7.5 Million Auction of World Coins at May 2008...
Part of $26.5 Million Long Beach Signature Auctions with total prices for ancient and world coins realizing $7.5 million and the American coins exceeding $19 million.
Dallas, TX. Heritage Auction Galleries' Long Beach Signature® Auction of Ancients and World Coins has brought in nearly $7.5 million in prices realized. The concurrent Signature® Auction of U.S. coins realized $19 million. The totals will rise further when post auction buys are finalized.
Royal Canadian Mint Issues Four Special Centennial Commemorative Coins and Stamp
The Royal Canadian Mint's anniversary is celebrated with 5-ounce gold and 5-ounce silver coins depicting Ottawa Mint’s historic building, a special edition proof silver dollar featuring a maple leaf and loon, and a coin and stamp set containing a replica coin of 1908 fifty-cent piece — the Mint's first coin — and stamp of its reverse.
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mint with special commemorative coins! It has been 100 years since Governor General Earl Grey activated the press to strike a fifty-cent piece, Canada’s first domestically produced coin. What would become known as the Royal Canadian Mint was officially open for business.
Gold Hot in Heritage’s May 2008 Long Beach $26.5 Million Auction
Dallas, TX. Top prices realized of $161,000 were reached by two very different coins in Heritage Auction Galleries' May 28-30, 2008 Signature® in Long Beach: a 1794 Dollar VF30 PCGS (Lot 800) and an 1891-O 25C Specimen MS65 NGC (Lot 334). Total prices realized for the American coins exceeded $19 million and ancient and world coins realized an additional $7.5 million; both totals will rise further when post auction buys are finalized.
"The strong market is continuing to bring great rarities onto the Heritage auction block," commented Heritage President Greg Rohan.
"One of the pair of 1794 silver dollars realized $161,000, matched by an 1891-O quarter, certified Specimen 65 by NGC.
One of the three Continental dollars included realized $92,000. Altogether, more than 650 consignors and more than 5,000 bidders participated in our May Long Beach auctions."
Washington DC Quarter Design Images Released, Public Asked to Vote for...
Artist renderings of three District of Columbia commemorative quarter designs have been prepared by the United States Mint and sent back to D.C. for review. Now the public is being asked to vote for their favorite and help select the final quarter theme.
The winning design will be recommended to the U.S. Mint, and issued next year as part of the District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program.
Inflation Calculator Now Includes Percent Rate of Inflation Changes
Austrian Railways Third Silver Commemorative, the “Belle Epoque” – Golden Age...
The Austrian Mint announces the June 11 release of the third 20 Euro silver commemorative coin within the "Austrian Railways" six silver coin series. The maximum mintage 50,000 proof coin highlights the “Belle Époque” period, featuring locomotive "kkStb 310" and an elegant lady walking the platform of the North Railway Station with its glass roofing and cast-iron pillars.
The “Belle Époque” covers the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a time when trains dominated land travel and reached new heights of comfort and luxury for those classes of society which had the money and time to travel.
Large Copper Penny Lifted from High School
