Information & News About United States Coins
As reported back in January, the American Eagle gold and silver coins are slated for a Reverse make over in 2021. Next year represents the 35th anniversary of the release of the series, making a change of the Reverse of the gold proof and silver bullion coin timely. Coming out of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) meeting last week, we now have a glimpse of what that new Reverse could look like next year. …
The knock-on effect of the suspension of this year’s World’s Fair of Money is that it has also cancelled a PNG event. The Professional Numismatic Guild traditionally holds a PNG day at the event but with the overall Fair now suspended, PNG has decided to call time on the event. PNG Day was scheduled to take place on Monday, August 3rd at the convention in Pittsburgh. Here is the full Press Release from PNG. (Pittsburgh, …
The following is a Press Release from the American Numismatic Association (ANA) announcing the suspension of the 2020 World’s Fair of Money. The show was originally scheduled for August 4-8, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, specifically the number of people that can be at an indoor gathering, the Association decided to suspend this year’s fair until further notice. The American Numismatic Association (ANA) announced today the suspension of the 2020 World’s …
The United States Mint has released its weekly sales report. The June 14, 2020 report shows that the 2020 annual sets made a strong comeback after slipping last week with the release of the Basketball Hall of Fame commemoratives. Those commemoratives continued to sell strongly as did the 2-roll set of 2020 Kennedy Half Dollar coins. Returning to the top selling position for the week was the 2020 Proof Set. 8,195 of the sets were …
The following is a Press Release from Legend Rare Coin Auctions, announcing that the Bruce Morelan collection of early Dollar coins will be going to auction at the PCGS Members’ Only Show in Las Vegas. That show is scheduled to take place in October. The collection includes the 1794 Dollar that sold for a record $10 Million, the only coin ever to break the $10 Million mark in an auction. Legend Rare Coin Auctions is …
Last week, I wrote about H.R. 6923, a bill currently in the House of Representatives that calls for commemorative coins to be made to honor the essential worker of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of that writing, outside of the working title, little was defined as to what the plan was for the coins the bill called to be made by the Mint. Over the weekend, 6923 was more clearly defined with coin types …
In previous Coin History articles, the focus has predominantly been on circulating coins of the past or today. For this article, I will focus on another modern coin, but on one of the bullion coins that is offered by the United States Mint: The American Buffalo. The American Buffalo, also sometimes referred to as a Gold Buffalo, was the first pure, 24-karat gold coin ever produced by the Mint for offer to the public. It …
The following Press Release comes from Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) announcing that the grading company has now graded a majority of the 240,000 emergency production 2020-P American Eagle silver bullion coins made in April. The one-off series of Eagle’s were produced in April at the height of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has once again demonstrated its position as the leader in modern coin certification: The third-party grading service has already certified …
Today’s Mail Bag question askes an important question: Why don’t we see Kennedy Half Dollar in circulation? The question came in last week from Zoe and while the answer is a simple one, the progress of how we got to that answer is a little more interesting. Hi, I am new to collecting and I really like the Kennedy half dollar. But they are hard to find and I found out that they are not …
The American Numismatic Association (ANA) has launched an all new podcast for collectors. Two Bits, hosted by Doug Mudd and Mitch Sanders, is aimed to cover a wide range of topics in the Numismatic world and is available to both ANA and non-ANA members alike. Host Doug Mudd has collected since the age of 10 and is currently interested in ancients, modern paper money, WWI and pre-19th century medals and coins. He was Collection Manager for the …