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Why Collect Commemoratives? A Better Question Might Be “Why Not?”

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Collecting Commemoratives By Ron Drzewucki If you collect modern U. S. coins, then you collect commemoratives. Today, practically every coin the United States Mint produces commemorates someone or something. There’s a president on the obverse of every denomination, including Presidential $1 coins. The reverse of the quarter has been especially busy over the last 15 […]

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Grade This 1936-S Cincinnati Commemorative Silver Half Dollar

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  This week, CoinWeek has a 1936-S Cincinnati Commemorative half dollar silver coin for you to grade. PCGS graded this coin and it features attractive toning. The Cincinnati silver half dollar was authorized amongst a flood of commemorative half dollar bills that passed through Congress in 1936. It was a notorious issue that was created […]

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Q. David Bowers: The Rise and Fall of the Commemorative Coin Market

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By Q. David Bowers – Co-Founder, Stack’s Bowers ….. If you’ve been following the coin market in recent years, then you might know that the prices of federal coins in 1988 were, on balance, tiny fractions of what many pieces sell for today. This is true across the board, from Colonials to Capped Bust silver […]

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A Big Move for a Small Coin: The Legend of John Jay Pittman’s “Statue of Liberty” Bidding Strategy

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By Ron Guth ….. Once upon a time, long before the COVID pandemic, and well before the internet took much of the business online, rare coin auctions were exciting events held in crowded rooms. Bidding was active, sometimes feverish, and members of the audience scanned the room and craned their necks to see who was […]

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