(Temecula, California) – A former Executive Director of the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.com), Paul L. Koppenhaver, passed away at the age of 80 in California on December 1, 2012.
Koppenhaver served as PNG Executive... read more »
December 4, 2012 2:04 PM / no comments
by Louis Golino for CoinWeek ……
On November 29 the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services, which is headed by outgoing Chairman Ron Paul, held a hearing on “The Future of Money: Dollars and Sense”... read more »
November 30, 2012 9:18 AM / 8 comments
NEW HEADS OF NUMISMATIC & PHILATELIC DEPARTMENTS
The leading collectables auction house Spink & Son Ltd are pleased to announce the appointments of two new divisional heads. In the last decade Spink has rapidly expanded from its original... read more »
November 27, 2012 3:02 PM / no comments
The 1813 Holey dollar was returned to the American Numismatic Association’s Edward C. Rochette Money Museum on Oct. 23.
The Holey dollar is an 1813 Australian coin struck on a 1788 Spanish-American real piece of Charles III from Mexico City.... read more »
November 5, 2012 10:35 AM / no comments
Representatives of the Professional Coin Grading Service (www.PCGSAsia.com) attended the Korea Money Fair for the first time and heard compliments and congratulations from Asian collectors and dealers.
The three-day show in Seoul, October 26... read more »
October 31, 2012 7:03 AM / no comments
CoinPlex, an online trading network for dealers buying and selling certified U.S. coins, is now serving members of the Professional Numismatists Guild as the PNG’s official coin trading network.
The relationship brings together a relatively... read more »
October 12, 2012 5:39 PM / no comments
Farokh S. Todywalla and Family, Todywalla Auctions
Interviewer: David Lisot
Most men who start a coin enterprise hope to have members of their family become involved with them to help run the business.
Farokh Todywalla of Mumbai, India is one... read more »
October 5, 2012 6:08 PM / no comments
Landon Sorgenstein, Co-Owner GoldenCents.com
More innovation is coming to the numismatic marketplace. A new Internet auction company has been announced that sells coins in a different way than traditional auction companies.
Co-owner Landon... read more »
October 1, 2012 1:00 PM / no comments
Steven Davic, Founder, Identicoin
Interviewer: David Lisot
A new idea using the latest technology allows coins to be sorted faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Founder Steven Davic, a student at MIT, shows his new coin sorting software... read more »
September 29, 2012 2:19 PM / no comments
by Louis Golino for CoinWeek ……
Summary of the creation of the 2012 Girl Scouts commemorative coin program:
Oct. 15, 2009 House bill H.R. 621 passed, calls for minting of 350,000 silver dollars, which will be issued in early 2013
Oct.... read more »
September 24, 2012 12:23 PM / 2 comments
The PCGS Set RegistrySM number one all-time finest collection of Lincoln Cents Off-Metal Strikes, Circulation Strikes 1943 – 1944, just got even better with a million dollar upgrade.
Well-known collector Bob R. Simpson, co-chairman of... read more »
September 19, 2012 12:33 PM / no comments
New podcast helps listeners keep up to date with summaries of current gold and silver news and precious metals pricing.
SilverTowne L.P., one of the country’s largest and most respected dealers of modern coins and bullion, has launched a new... read more »
September 13, 2012 6:59 AM / no comments
Interviews with Q. David Bowers, Jeff Garrett, Ira Goldberg, Ken Goldman, David Hall, Julian Leidman, , Kevin Lipton, Paul Nugget, Jim Halperin, Todd Imhof, Steve Ivy, Tom Mulvaney, Greg Rohan, Rick Sear, and Tony Terranova.
Interviewer: David... read more »
September 9, 2012 11:06 PM / no comments
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker
INTRODUCING THE CLADKING
Sam Petry, better known online by the handle “CladKing”, is a pioneer in the area of collecting clad (post-1964) coinage. His knowledge and expertise on the subject is the culmination... read more »
September 6, 2012 1:51 AM / 2 comments
An era in the history of the Central States Numismatic Society will be coming to a close at the conclusion of its 74th Anniversary Convention, to be held April 24-27, 2013 at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center, located at 1551 North... read more »
September 5, 2012 1:17 PM / no comments