Information & News About United States Coins
The American Numismatic Association (ANA) has released Episode 8 of its new-for-last-year podcast, Two Bits. In this episode, Doug Mudd and Mitch Sanders have an interview with famed Numismatists Ken Bressett. If you have been a collector for any amount of time, you’ve likely heard the name Ken Bressett. He is a the editor of the famous “Red Book” and has dozens of other publications to his name. He is one of the stalwarts of …
If you have been on the fence about joining the American Numismatic Association (ANA), all of your excuses may have been eliminated. To celebrate National Coin Week this week, the ANA is offering a gold level membership for just $5 for the year. Normally, the gold level membership is $30 per year so this is a big savings that the Association is offering to new members. So what does the gold membership to the ANA …
The United States Mint has updated its daily bullion sales report through to this morning, Monday, April 19, 2021 for the previous week. The bullion sales report reflects bullion coins that the Mint sold to Authorized Purchasers for the previous week. Overall it was a slow sales week for the Mint with just 469,000 bullion coins sold in the previous seven days. Of the coins sold, the vast majority of those were the American Eagle …
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has released the candidate images for the upcoming American Women Quarter Program. The committee released images of the Obverse candidates as well as the candidate images of the first two coins in the series honoring Maya Angelou and Sally Ride. The designs are a result of the CCAC meeting held earlier this month. The new program calls for five different Reverse designs honoring trailblazing American women to be released …
The United States Mint will be releasing the 100th anniversary of the Morgan Dollar and Peace Dollar this year and there are a lot of dates and ordering details to bare in mind. Demand for these coins are expected to be exceptionally high given that the Numismatic community pushed hard to have these coins produced. Add to that, for the Morgan Dollar, there will be a special privy mark coin for Carson City (CC) and …
The United States Mint has released images of the 2021 Peace Dollar. The Peace – along with the 2021 Morgan Dollar – are being released laster this year in honor of the 100th anniversary of the end of the Morgan Dollar and the start of the Peace Dollar. To this point, we had only seen mockup images of the coin from the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). In December 1921, the new Peace Dollar was approved by …
The United States Mint has released the first images of the 2021 Morgan Dollar. The Morgan – along with the 2021 Peace Dollar – are being released laster this year in honor of the 100th anniversary of the end of the Morgan Dollar and the start of the Peace Dollar. To this point, we had only seen mockup images of the coin from the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). The Morgan Dollar will be struck …
The United States Mint will begin sales of the 2021 Silver Proof Set starting next week on April 22, 2021. Sales will begin on the Mint’s website at Noon Eastern, 9:00 AM Pacific and the set represents the second annual set of coins released by the Mint this year. The standard Proof Set was released last month. The 2021 Silver Proof Set has seen a substantial price increase over the 2020 set. This year, the …
The American Numismatic Association (ANA) has announced that it will be offering a range of free webinars to the public during National Coin Week. National Coin Week is next week, April 18-24. Registration for the webinars is required and can be done at info.money.org/ncw-webinars. Editors Note: Clinton, the editor of USCoinNews.com, is a member of the American Numismatic Association In celebration of National Coin Week (NationalCoinWeek.org), April 18-24, the American Numismatic Association (ANA) is offering …
The following is a Press Release from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announcing the judgement against The Alista Group and Luis M. Pineda Palocios for engaging in precious medal fraud as well as off-exchange precious medal sales to retail customers. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered an order granting the CFTC’s motion for entry of default judgment against defendants The Alista Group, …