By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com
CoinWeek Content Partner
Cats versus dogs. Coke versus Pepsi. Good versus evil. You get my point: two camps competing for your heart, your affection or your soul. Its not that far-fetched to stretch... read more »
February 16, 2012 10:21 AM / no comments
Michael Brandow, Sales Director
Interviewer: David Lisot
The introduction of third party grading allows many coins to trade as sight unseen commodities. One of the oldest electronic trading exchanges is Certified Coin Exchange, known as CCE.... read more »
February 15, 2012 3:45 PM / 1 comment
Tyler and Ryan Warren, Young Numismatists
Interviewer: David Lisot.
Coin collectors can be almost any age. The fact is there are not that many young people getting into the hobby. The Long Beach Expo gives special attention to developing kid... read more »
February 15, 2012 9:10 AM / no comments
By Steve Roach
First published in the Feb. 13, 2012, issue of Coin World
The problems of counterfeit coins and “coin doctoring” are two issues that have the potential to harm the coin market in the long term if not properly addressed.
For... read more »
February 14, 2012 8:09 AM / no comments
By Mark Ferguson for CoinWeek – MFRareCoins.com
Using gold as an example, the first investing decision you need to make is whether you want to invest in “paper gold” or “physical gold.” Paper gold is one of the investment instruments... read more »
February 6, 2012 11:43 AM / no comments
Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com
CoinWeek Content Partner
In the first part of this article, I discussed the ins and outs of assembling a year set of Liberty Head eagles from 1838 through 1866. In case you’ve already forgotten the premise,... read more »
February 6, 2012 6:18 AM / no comments
By Mark Ferguson for CoinWeek – MFRareCoins.com
Let’s begin by looking at what money really is, using the settling of the United States by the European colonists as an example. When European settlers came to America during the 1600s, they... read more »
February 3, 2012 5:56 PM / 3 comments
News and Analysis on scarce coins, markets, and the collecting community #93
A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds
It has been a while since I have written about Liberty Seated Half Dollars. Indeed, I have not done so since August 2011,... read more »
February 1, 2012 8:35 AM / 1 comment
By Mark Ferguson for CoinWeek – MFRareCoins.com
Coin collecting habits, and the patterns with which we collect, have been constantly evolving over the decades. During the 1960s collecting was very much different than it is today, as it also... read more »
January 26, 2012 11:13 AM / no comments
by Ross W. Bailey, From The E-Gobrecht – 2012 Volume 8, Issue 1
The Electronic Newsletter of the LIBERTY SEATED COLLECTORS CLUB
This article distills the lessons gleaned from my ten years of experience as an active buyer and collector... read more »
January 20, 2012 2:58 PM / 1 comment