Designs for the reverses of 2015 and 2016 Native American $1 coins were endorsed when the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee met March 10.The 2015 coin honors the Mohawk Ironworkers and the 2016 coin honors the Code Talkers.The obverse for all Native American $1 coins minted since their introduction in 2000 is the Glenna Goodacre portrait of Sacagawea and her infant son
By Col. Steven EllsworthThe Best Secured Coin Shows of 2013 have been selected by Col. Steven Ellsworth of the Butternut Company in Clifton, Va
For most individual tax return filers, April 15 is the annual deadline to send in their personal federal income tax forms. In general, those who are getting refunds like to send in their tax forms quickly. On the other hand, those who have to write a check to the Internal Revenue Service often wait until close to the due date to send in the return with payment
Artist Rocky Zhao is the designer of the 2014 Panda.By Peter Anthony“These are just bullion coins. Why do you care about dates?”Less than 10 years ago that was the typical response I would get at a coin shop when I asked about Pandas
Coins excavated in or originating from Bulgaria prior to 1750 are now subject to severe import restrictions to the United States.By Richard GiedroycThe status of ancient coins imported into the United States from parts of Eastern Europe appears to be caught in a lose-lose situation.Several shipments of ancient coins allegedly excavated in Bulgaria, smuggled through Europe and eventually finding their way to the United States will likely be seized by the Investigations Division of the Department of Homeland Security
By Bill BrandimoreAuction action is one method of gauging the market. Currently it appears that while great notes are up, really good notes seem a bit soft, especially in circulated collector grades.If you want nice looking notes, I recommend not putting away anything in less than Very fine 25 condition
Perhaps the aluminum 1974-D Lincoln cent will not be sold at the Central States auction at the end of April.The Mint wants it back.A letter was sent Feb
You may not be able to pick President Benjamin Harrison out of a crowd, but the six latest presidents to be honored on $1 coins should bring a spark of recognition to most people.The U.S
For 28 years, sculptor John Mercanti’s eagle with shield and grasping an olive branch and arrows in its talons has graced the reverse of the American silver Eagle $1 bullion coin.Some think it’s time to give another eagle a chance to adorn the coin.So the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee will hold a teleconference April 8 to discuss the possibility of placing a new image on the coin
The Michigan State Numismatic Society hosted its spring convention and show March 14-16 at the Adoba Hotel in Dearborn. This show of roughly 140 tables ran from Friday through Sunday. Morgan dollars were hot while bullion silver and silver American Eagles were not
Stack’s Bowers Galleries has scheduled three major auctions or series of auctions.An 1804 silver dollar and the only 1822 $5 gold piece in private hands will be sold by the firm as headline items in an eight-part series of auctions of the D. Brent Pogue Collection that will commence May 14, 2015, and conclude Sept
President Theodore Roosevelt called the series of dimes, quarters and halves designed by Charles E. Barber “artistically of atrocious hideousness,” but that’s not stopping determined Barber coin collectors.“The upper Mint State area has had some really strong results
By Richard GiedroycThe Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter (England) is launching an appeal to raise funds to purchase the 22,000 ancient Roman coins found with a metal detector near Seaton during 2013, according to a British Broadcasting Corporation news release.A close-up of some of the roman coins as they were found. (Image courtesy of the British Museum / APEX)The hoard discovered by Laurence Egerton in East Devon is the largest such hoard ever found in England
In just 15 minutes, the U.S. Mint reported it had sold out of the Harry S
Premiums have fallen for pre-1965 90 percent silver U.S. coins