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Coin Rarities & Related Topics: Unique 1873-CC ‘No Arrows’ Dime
A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #116 …… At the ANA Convention in August, in Philadelphia, Stack’s-Bowers will auction a complete... read more »
Pricing “Difficult” Coins: A Real World Model
By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com …… I have written a number of blogs in the past few years about how I price rare coins. Despite this, I still get many questions from new and experienced collectors about pricing. I’d like to... read more »
ULTIMATE RARITIES: The Single Most Important Coin in American Numismatics
By Mark Ferguson for CoinWeek – MFRareCoins.com ……. From $505 in June, 1882 to $7,395,000 in December, 2011 This rare gold coin has been called, “the single most important coin in American numismatics.” ... read more »
African-Americans on US Coins: Representation & Discovery (Part 1)
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek …. When we sit down to write, we have a few guiding principles. One of our basic assumptions is that the market for modern American coinage is underdeveloped and undervalued. It’s a market... read more »
A New Regular CoinWeek Column by Mark Ferguson: ULTIMATE RARITIES starts on July 2nd
A New Regular CoinWeek Column by Mark Ferguson – MFRareCoins.com Without their stories coins are just “pieces of metal.” At least that’s what the late Elvira Clain-Stefanelli, curator of the National... read more »
Defining The Line Between Precious Metals and Numismatics
By Jay Rudo A question that collectors often ask is what makes a coin bullion and what makes a coin numismatic. There are a lot of different factors involved to answer this question and this article will look at many of them. Having spent... read more »
USA Coin Album: The San Francisco Mint Coinage of 1923, Part One
Posted by David W. Lange, Numismatic Guaranty Corporation Research Director ….. Certain issues of United States coins seem to hold more appeal than similar coins of other dates and mints. Among my favorite coins are the various pieces... read more »
Revisiting Reportable Bullion & Cash Transactions
By Richard Schwary – California Numismatic Investments (www.golddealer.com) It is hard to believe it has been a year (May 23, 2011) since my first comments about government reporting requirements within the coin business. I called this effort... read more »
The Value of Old Numismatic Books
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker Special Contributors to CoinWeek - When Hubert and I set out to write numismatic books, we did so because the kind of book that we wanted to read just wasn’t readily available. We weren’t sure if such... read more »
Learning How to Grade – Part 1
By Peter Mosiondz, Jr. Originally Appeared in Canadian Coin News My biggest pet peeve about our wonderful hobby of coin collecting is the over-grading of coins. I see this all too often when I am called in to appraise a collection or make an... read more »
Coins’ rarity not sole driver of market prices: Collecting patterns can influence demand and values
By Steve Roach - www.steveroachonline.com First published in the June 4, 2012, Special Edition issue of Coin World A reader recently asked how a 1909-S Lincoln, V.D.B. cent could be worth considerably more than a 1982-P Roosevelt, No P dime.... read more »
Counterfeit Protection: 1881-S Morgan Dollar
From the NGC by Max Spiegel, Numismatic Researcher on 5/15/2012 Raised areas and the incorrrect shape of the mintmark identify this 1881-S Morgan as a counterfeit. The 1881-S Morgan dollar is not a coin that you would expect to see faked.... read more »
World Coins: Chile 2008 50 Peso
From the NGC Posted by Jay Turner, NGC Grader on 5/15/2012 Some 2008 50 Peso coins were issued with Chile misspelled. In numismatics, errors and varieties are two of the most studied and collected areas in the field. Minting facilities often... read more »
THE ANA MID WINTER DENVER SHOW
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics First, we’d like to apologize for the tweet we sent out when we got the show about the show being DOA. It really was the thin air that got us woozy. THE SHOW WAS NOT DOA. It did have a light... read more »
Coin Submission Success Strategies
By Charles Morgan with Hubert Walker If you’re anything like me, then you occasionally submit coins to one of the major Third Party Grading companies to preserve them, attribute them, or to add to your collection of certified coins. I look... read more »
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