The new auction year gets in full swing with several auctions scheduled during the first few weeks of 2017. Last week, we previewed Heritage Auctions’ “Platinum Night” offerings at this year’s FUN Convention, held in Fort Lauderdale January 5 through January 8. This week, we’ll look at highlights from Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ auction sessions […]
“Trump Effect” Lifts 2016 U.S. Rare-Coin Market, Reports Professional Numismatists Guild
(Temecula, California)—The optimism that disposable income may increase with the election of Donald Trump lifted the U.S. rare-coin market in the last two months of 2016, according to the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org). The PNG, a nonprofit organization composed of many of the country’s top rare-coin and paper-money experts, conducts an annual compilation of results […]
Affordable Barber Dimes
The Barber-dime series, produced from 1892 to 1916, is a relatively easy collection to complete in circulated grades. There is only one key date, the 1895-O (we’re excluding the extremely rare 1894-S), and even for that coin a collector could certainly hope to acquire an example in collectable condition for less than $1,000. For many […]
Affordable Large Cents
Struck every year from 1793 to 1857 (with the exception of 1815), the large cent was one of America’s most commonly used denominations of the first half of the 19th century. The cent, or penny as it is often called, might now be a mostly obsolete and rarely used denomination, but at one time it […]
McKinley Commemorative Gold Dollars
The 1916 and 1917 McKinley Memorial gold dollars are two of 13 classic gold commemoratives that the U.S. Mint struck between 1903 and 1926. Struck to fund a memorial to President William McKinley in Niles, Ohio, the birthplace of the 25th president of the United States, the issue was less than a success, and a relatively small […]
Louisiana Purchase Commemorative Gold Dollars
Thirteen gold commemorative coins were released by the United States Mint between 1903 and 1926, ranging in denominations from one dollar to fifty dollars. These were sometimes released in conjunction with a commemorative silver dollar, but occasionally featured another subject altogether, as was the case with the first two gold commemorative issues, the 1903 Louisiana […]
Q&A: Is it True That 1917-1930 Standing Liberty Quarters Were Illegally Struck?
The following Q&A is excerpted from Clifford Mishler’s Coins: Questions & Answers, 5th edition: Q: Is it true that the Standing Liberty quarters struck from 1917 through 1930 were illegal, or were illegally struck? A: That could be said. The authorizing legislation for the Standing Liberty quarter specified: “No change shall be made in the […]
Review of National Numismatic Certification
Increasingly I have been seeing slabs by National Numismatic Certification, a Florida firm, whose coins I sometimes bid on despite its grading being inconsistent at times, with flaws that would disqualify coins at PCGS or NGC. But that’s not an issue if you know how to grade, because some NNC-holdered coins are grade-worthy and, on occasion, […]
New Guide Book of Peace Dollars Explores America’s Last Silver Dollar and the Mysterious 1964-D Coinage
(Atlanta, Georgia)—Whitman Publishing announces the release of the updated and revised third edition of the Guide Book of Peace Dollars, by award-winning numismatic researcher Roger W. Burdette. The 288-page book will be available from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide on September 27, 2016, for $19.95. Before then it is available for preorder (including online at […]
Collecting on a Budget: Affordable Standing Liberty Quarters
The Standing Liberty quarter, originally produced from 1916 to 1930, is in the news this year thanks to the 100th anniversary of its introduction and the release of the centennial gold version from the United States Mint. It was intended to replace the Barber design with something more beautiful, and few collectors would argue that […]
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