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United States Mint Numismatic Sales Report – January 30, 2022

February 1, 2022 by Clinton

The United States Mint has released its weekly numismatic sales report for the seven-day period ending on Sunday, January 30, 2022. The report covers the previous seven days in numismatic product sales by the Mint and is separate from the bullion sales report. In this week’s report, the Mint indicated that just 6,537 numismatic products were sold. This is down from the just over 10,000 products sold according to last week’s report. The top selling product for the …

Secretary of the Treasury Appoints Dr. Lawrence Brown to Chair Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee

January 31, 2022 by Clinton

The following is a Press Release from the United States Mint announcing that Dr. Lawrence Brown has been appointed Chairman of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). Dr. Brown has been on the CCAC since 2019 and will serve as chairperson for one year effective today, January 30, 2022. The United States Mint announced today that the Secretary of the Treasury has appointed Dr. Lawrence S. Brown as the next Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage …

United States Mint Bullion Sales Report – January 30, 2022

January 31, 2022 by Clinton

The United States Mint has updated its daily bullion sales report for American Eagle and American Buffalo bullion coins. This summary report provides sales details through Sunday, January 30, 2022. The bullion sales report reflects bullion coins that the Mint sold to Authorized Purchasers for the previous week and is different than the weekly numismatic product report. During the previous week, the Mint reported sales of 1,074,500 bullion coins, with all products except the one-ounce American …

Maya Angelou American Women Quarter Bags & Rolls Sales Start February 7th

January 31, 2022 by Clinton

2022 American Women Quarter Maya Angelou Reverse (Image Courtesy of The United States Mint)

The United States Mint will begin sales of the first American Women Quarter Program release honoring Maya Angelou starting next week. Sales of the new Quarter will begin on February 7th at Noon Eastern, 9:00 AM Pacific. All of the products will be available directly from the United States Mint. None of the products that will be offered next week have a production, mintage, or household limit. The Maya Angelou quarter is the first of …

Site News – Scheduled Maintenance January 29th

January 28, 2022 by Clinton

Happy Friday Numipeeps! A quick site news note that USCoinNews has a scheduled maintenance window tomorrow, January 29th, from 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM Mountain. During that time, the site will be down or will be intermittently available. Everything should return back to normal shortly after 7:00 AM Mountain. The maintenance window is to do some upgrades to some of the code and software that is used on the site, assign an additional CPU core, …

ANA Accepting Submissions For The Gregory Outstanding Club Publications

January 27, 2022 by Clinton

The following is a Press Release from the American Numismatic Association (ANA) announcing that it is accepting submissions for the 2022 Barbara J. Gregory Outstanding Club Publication. Submissions are being accepted now and must be received by April 1, 2022. The award will be presented in four categories: Local, Regional, Speciality, and Electronic. The American Numismatic Association (ANA) is currently accepting submissions for the 2022 Barbara J. Gregory Outstanding Club Publications ANA competition. Awards will be presented in four …

CCAC Meeting Set for February 15, 2022

January 27, 2022 by Clinton

The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) has announced that it will be holding its next scheduled meeting on Tuesday, February 15, 2022. The meeting will begin at 1:00 PM Eastern and the public is invited to listen in on the meeting. The meeting currently has one item on the agenda, which is to review and discuss the Obverse and Reverse design candidates of the 2023 American Liberty High Relieve 24K Gold Coin and Silver Medal. …

Today’s Deal – 1970 Washington Quarter 3-Coin Set

January 26, 2022 by Clinton

Today’s Deal is on a beautiful 3-coin set of 1970 Washington Quarters. The set comes with a brilliant uncirculated example from the Philadelphia and Denver Mints, along with a proof specimen from the San Francisco Mint. All together, the set is priced at just $5.45 (plus $3.95 shipping). That breaks down to each coin in this set costing just $3.13 each, far less than the average book price of $6.00 each. US Coin News is …

Coin History – The Denver Mint

January 26, 2022 by Clinton

For the past one hundred and sixteen years, the United States Mint has struck coins at its Denver, Colorado facility. While the Mint has had a Denver location since 1863 – 159 years – the location started off small and essentially a depot for gold found by minders during the Colorado Gold Rush. But all that changed on February 1, 1906 and now the location is the largest producer of coins in the world, not …

NGC Grading Report – January 26, 2022

January 26, 2022 by Clinton

This is the Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) grading report for the week of January 26, 2022. The purpose of this report is to inform readers of USCoinNews the estimated time that the Florida-based grading company is taking to grade coins submitted either directly or through an authorized dealer. The goal of the report is to provide realistic expectations on how long it will take for you to get your coins back from NGC. It is …