Featured articles on coins and coin collecting from Coin Update News. These articles often cover significant product releases or announcements from the United States Mint and other world Mints, content from monthly or weekly columns, and other worthwhile reading for coin collectors.
Further details have been provided for the upcoming America the Beautiful Quarters design unveiling. The new series will feature 56 different National Parks and National Sites from across America.
The media-only event will be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM ET in the Newseum located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W, Washington, DC. Featured [...]
The United States Mint has announced a reduction in the maximum mintage limits for this year’s First Spouse Gold Coins. The 2010 issues featuring Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, James Buchanan’s Liberty, and Mary Todd Lincoln will all have limits set below the levels of the prior coins of the series.
The first coins of the series [...]
The latest US Mint sales report shows that the 2010 American Veterans Disabled for Life Silver Dollars added sales of 22,102 across both proof and uncirculated options. This brings the combined sales total up to 153,936 out of the maximum authorized mintage of 350,000. Collectors will have less than two weeks to purchase the coins [...]
Editor’s Note: This is the last of a three-part article about direct and dealer submissions to the top two third-party coin grading companies, with the first installment covering the basics; the second, direct PCGS submissions; and the third, NGC dealer submissions. Read Part One and Part Two.
In previous installments, we covered reasons why you should [...]
The United States Mint recently published the pricing for their upcoming 2010 annual set offerings. These products include long time collector favorites like the annual Mint Set and Proof Set, as well as separate sets for the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters.
The 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set will be priced at $14.95. The [...]
Collectors are still waiting for the new America the Beautiful Quarters series to begin. Recent developments finally put a time frame on when the designs for the first five quarters will be unveiled and when the first quarter will be launched.
The new quarter series traces its origins back to H.R. 6184: America’s Beautiful National Parks [...]
The latest weekly US Mint sales report shows lull in buying activity. In the past week, there were no new product releases to spur sales and recently released products have shown expected sales declines. Most collectors tend to order US Mint products soon after release, resulting in ebbing sales after the initial rush to buy.
The [...]
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a three-part article about direct and dealer submissions to the top two third-party grading companies, with the first installment covering the basics; the second, direct PCGS submissions; and the third, dealer NGC submissions. View Part One. View Part Three.
After analyzing benefits of the PCGS Collector Club and the [...]
Bills have recently been introduced in the House and Senate which seek one ounce silver medals struck in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the establishment of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
H.R. 4684 was introduced in the House of Representatives on [...]
Recently, the German television station ProSieben ran a news story covering W. C. Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, the world’s largest privately owned refinery. In the story, Wilfried Hörner, the head of the gold foundry, shows a 500 gram bar (16.0755 troy ounces) received from an unidentified bank. The bar had the right physical dimensions [...]
