While I hate to make bold pronouncements based on a small number of auction results, it looks like an interesting trend may be occuring in the Carson City half eagle market. Within two months, three important CC half eagles have sold at auction... read more »
February 22, 2011 8:20 AM / no comments
Stack’s-Bowers Numismatics will conduct their inaugural auction March 28 through April 3, 2011, as the Official Auctioneer of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Expo in Baltimore, Maryland. The company was created with the merger of two great... read more »
February 21, 2011 3:45 PM / no comments
By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com
I’m busy updating my Dahlonega gold book (I hope to be finished with the manuscript in 45 days or so) and in honor of My Dahlonega Obsession, I thought it would be fun, or at least moderately amusing,... read more »
February 15, 2011 5:11 PM / no comments
Martin Logies Director, Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation talks about the 1792 half disme in the collection, its numismatic significance, and how the early coins of America were struck. [Runtime 6:34]
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February 11, 2011 9:10 AM / no comments
BY Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com
Two newly discovered high grade 1840-C half eagles in the Heritage 2011 Platinum Night session of the FUN auction give interesting insight to the emission sequence and striking characteristics of the... read more »
February 11, 2011 8:47 AM / no comments
News and Analysis on, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #39
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
Last week, I wrote about the auction of an NGC certified 1907 “Rolled Edge PF-67 SATIN” $10 gold piece for a record $2,185,000. I... read more »
February 9, 2011 9:28 AM / no comments
By Doug Winter – RareDateGold.com
Even the most available pre-1933 United States gold coin has some degree of “rarity.” A coin like a 1924 or 1927 St. Gaudens double eagle might have a total population in the 10,000’s and this certainly... read more »
February 8, 2011 12:11 AM / no comments
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has announced that they have certified a significant Carson City Variety.
A coin submitted to NCS for conservation followed by NGC grading has turned out to be an unpublished variety. This gold eagle coined... read more »
February 3, 2011 1:13 PM / no comments
News and Analysis on scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #38
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
In the 1990s, only four coins sold at auction for more than $1 million each. Over the last decade, many have done so. Now,... read more »
February 2, 2011 1:11 PM / no comments
By Steve Roach – http://www.steveroachonline.com - First published in the Feb.14, 2011, issue of Coin World
January was a hard month for gold. It opened on Jan. 4 at $1,405.50 (London AM fix spot price) and has gradually fallen since,... read more »
February 1, 2011 8:34 AM / no comments