Washington — The United States Mint (Mint) will begin accepting orders for colorized Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins on August 28 at noon EDT. The colorization will be featured on the reverses (tails) of the Basketball Hall of Fame silver dollar and the Basketball Hall of Fame clad half dollar. Mintage is set at […]
CSNS hires Larry Shepherd as convention manager
The Central States Numismatic Society is pleased to announce the hiring of Colorado Springs, CO, coin dealer Larry Shepherd as its new convention manager. Convention operations previously were overseen by Convention General Chairman Kevin Foley and Bourse Chairman Patricia Foley, whose positions were eliminated in a reorganization this summer. CSNS President Mitch Ernst said, “The […]
United States Mint opens sales for Uncirculated palladium coin on September 24
Washington — The United States Mint (Mint) will begin accepting orders for the 2020 American Palladium Eagle one-ounce Uncirculated coin (product code 20EK) on September 24 at noon EDT. The coin contains one ounce of 99.95 percent palladium and is the collector version of the official United States Mint American Palladium Eagle one-ounce Uncirculated coin, […]
Bowers on collecting: What might have been
What might have been but wasn’t: Lots of food for thought. The other day I read a list of other such things that included these items: Bennett Cerf, former head of Random House, stated the most memorable incident in his career was rejecting Margaret Mitchell’s manuscript for Gone With the Wind, which went on to fame and […]
PCI Silver Eagles versus PCI Morgan dollars, Part II
In my last column, I noted how I purposely sent two PCI Morgan dollars with specific PCI Silver Eagles bearing similar toning and patterns, testing PCGS to see if it would cross over the Morgans. My “Economy” submission came back with graded Eagles and DNC (Did Not Cross) Morgan dollars, as depicted in the photo […]
Silver dollar commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage on sale August 18
Washington — The United States Mint (Mint) will accept orders for 2020 Women’s Suffrage Centennial silver dollar products beginning at noon EDT on August 18, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which gave women the right to vote. Public Law 116-71 authorizes the Mint to […]
U.S. Mint sales report: Week ending August 9, 2020
This U.S. Mint numismatic sales report covers the week ending August 9, 2020. The Mint’s best-selling product this week was the 2020-W one-ounce American Silver Eagle $1 Uncirculated coin (20EG), which sold 8,794 units. In second place was the 2020-W one-ounce American Silver Eagle $1 Proof coin (20EA) with 7,541 sold. The third best-selling item this […]
Heritage Auctions’ offerings of finest-known coins from U.S. and England push ANA sales past $33 million
America’s Inaugural Federal Reserve Note Proof Archive Fetches $504,000 Dallas, Texas (August 12, 2020) — Earlier this summer, the American Numismatic Association 2020 World’s Fair of Money was canceled for only the third time in more than a century because of the global pandemic. But with Dallas-based Heritage Auctions’ Platinum Night Auctions moved online, that […]
Bowers on collecting: Blame it on Hurricane Diane!
By almost any evaluation the 1955 Doubled Die cent is the most famous die error in the Lincoln cent series. The date and all obverse lettering are dramatically doubled. When these were first noticed by numismatists, Numismatic News called them 1955 Shift cents. Later, Kenneth E. Bressett gave them the Doubled Die name, used in […]
Final sale of 2019 silver Enhanced Proof coin (19XE)
The following comes from an e-mail sent to the numismatic press today The remaining quantity of 2019 American Silver Eagle one-ounce Enhanced Reverse Proof coins product code 19XE will go on sale at noon EDT, Wednesday, August 12, 2020. This product will only be available for sale on the Mint website. No phone orders will […]
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