Gold Marks Fresh 3-Month High; US Coin Sales Rise
Gold futures scored a fresh, more than three-month high on Tuesday, extending a string of wins to seven sessions in eight with three of them in a row.
Gold for December delivery edged up 90 cents, or less than 0.1%, to $1,165.40 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
US Mint Limits Weekly Silver Eagle Sales to 1 Million
United States Mint distributors this week can order up to 1 million American Eagle silver bullion coins. They can't buy as many as they want because the U.S. Mint has rationed the 99.9% fine silver coins since temporarily running out of them in July.
One million a week has been a common limit, but it does mark a 7% reduction from last week's supply of 1,075,000 coins [...]
Perth Mint Gold and Silver Sales Soar in September
Australian sales of bullion gold and silver soared in September, the latest figures from the Perth Mint show. Demand for the Mint's silver products was on fire with sales the highest in at least 2-2/3 years. Gold sales, meanwhile, jumped the most in a year.
Perth Mint orders of gold coins and gold bars hit 63,791 ounces last month, surging 91.1% from the 33,390 ounces delivered in August [...]
Bidding Opens for Stack’s Nov Baltimore Currency Auction
Catalogs have been mailed and online bidding has started for Stack's Bowers Galleries' next U.S. currency auction, held in conjunction with the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Winter Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center from Nov. 5 to 8, 2015.
More than 830 lots across multiple categories of currency will cross the block at Baltimore [...]
Precious Metals Surge on Week; US Mint Coin Sales Stronger
Precious metals futures surged on Friday, capping a solid week of gains that ranged from 1.7% for gold to 7.9% for platinum. Gold scored a seven-week high.
Gold for December delivery tacked on $11.60, or 1%, to close at $1,155.90 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange [...]
2015 LBJ Coin & Chronicles Set Images
The United States Mint this month will release its fourth and last Coin & Chronicle Set of the year, this one featuring Lyndon B. Johnson.
This year's first two sets for Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower had limits of 17,000 and sold out within 15 minutes of their release. The third set for John F. Kennedy with its 50,000 limit took a bit more than two weeks before becoming unavailable [...]
2015 Australian Silver and Gold Coins for October
October releases from the Perth Mint of Australia feature several new gold, silver and platinum coins that showcase a variety of themes.
They include Year of the Monkey coins, a two-ounce gold high relief kangaroo coin, a star-shaped coin, a map-shaped coin, a five-ounce high relief koala silver coin and a platinum Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle coin [...]











