Gold Logs First Increase in Four Sessions, Advancing From Lowest Settlement...
Precious metals futures ended divided Wednesday. Platinum and palladium declined while gold and silver closed ahead for the first time in four sessions with the former bouncing from its lowest price of the year.
Gold for June delivery edged up $1.20, or 0.09%, to settle at $1,291.50 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
Rittenhouse 1792 Half Disme, 1861-P Paquet $20 at 2018 World’s Fair...
The finest known 1792 Half Disme, formerly owned by the first United States Mint Director David Rittenhouse, and the finer of the two known 1861 Philadelphia Mint Paquet Reverse Liberty Head Double Eagles, will be featured exhibits in the Museum Showcase at the American Numismatic Association's 2018 Philadelphia World's Fair of Money®..
The two historic coins, along with George Washington and/or Thomas Jefferson-signed papers appointing Rittenhouse [...]
Gold Ends Below $1,300; Posts Lowest Close of Year
Precious metals futures declined Tuesday. Losses in gold and silver were their third straight -- and for gold, its sixth decline in seven sessions. Still worse, the yellow metal closed at its weakest price of the year to below the key $1,300 level.
Gold for June delivery dropped $27.90, or 2.1%, to settle at $1,290.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
Gold Logs First Weekly Increase in Four Weeks
Precious metals futures ended mostly lower Friday but they advanced on the week. Silver stretched its weekly wins to two in a row. While gold dipped from a two-week high on Friday, the yellow metal snapped a string of three weekly losses.
Gold for June delivery shed $1.60, or 0.1%, to settle at $1,320.70 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
Canadian $20 Silver Coin Celebrates Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan...
The Royal Canadian Mint is celebrating the upcoming wedding of Prince Henry of Wales and Meghan Markle with a 1 oz. .9999 fine $20 silver coin depicting the couple. The wedding ceremony will take place May 19 at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
The Mint is also making a $25,000 donation to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation in Toronto. The collectible was unveiled May 9 at Toronto's CAMH [...]
Gold Coins and Ingots Highlight May 15-16 Sedwick’s Treasure Auction #23
In the early years of the United States of America, a lack of gold coinage forced citizens to utilize an unusual but practical source. Known as regulated gold, these were foreign gold coins adjusted by respected goldsmiths to weights compatible with US dollars.
One such piece, an NGC-graded XF 40 Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos dated 1741 struck during the reign of Philip V of Spain and regulated by Boston goldsmith Joseph Edwards, Jr. (1737-1783) to $15 in circulating value, will cross the auction block in Daniel Frank Sedwick's Treasure Auction 23 [...]











