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ANS – Important Update to OCRE

June 10, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has released the follow Press Release regarding the Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) digital resource. The update now includes the latest volume of the Spink’s authoritative series. The ANS has recently launched an update to its Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) digital corpus. This update, months in the making, incorporates the newly published volume of Spink’s authoritative series, Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC) into OCRE. Published in …

Mint Sales Report – June 7, 2020

June 9, 2020 by Clinton

The United States Mint has released its latest sales report. The report covers sales of Numismatic products by the Mint for the 7-day period ending June 7, 2020. In what should be to no surprise, the new Basketball Hall of Fame commemoratives and 2020 Kennedy Half Dollar products dominated the Top 10 in sales. All of those products were enjoying their first week of availability in this week’s report. In fact, only one item in …

ANS Money Talks Series – What’s New At The Newman Portal?

June 9, 2020 by Clinton

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has announced that the next lecture in the Money Talks lecture series will be held on June 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM Pacific. The lecture will be covering updates that have been taking place in the Newman Portal. The Newman Numismatic Portal is an online numismatic library that holds over 40,000 items. This presentation will provide an overview of the collection and in particular discuss activities at the ANS library. …

NGC Certifies More than 250 Morgan Dollars from the Atlanta Bank Hoard

June 9, 2020 by Clinton

1878 Carson City Morgan - Atlanta Bank Hoard (Image Courtesy of NGC)

The following Press Release comes from Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC), announcing the grading over over 250 low mintage and highly sought Morgan Dollars from the Atlanta Bank Hoard. Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) recently certified more than 250 Morgan Silver Dollars from a cache amassed at the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank during the 1950s and 1960s. The hoard includes many rare dates and coins with similar and appealing toning. A discovery of a previously unknown hoard …

Dallas-Based Heritage Auctions Relocates World Headquarters to New, 160,000 Square-Foot Campus

June 8, 2020 by Clinton

The following Press Release was provided by Heritage Auctions, announcing the move of their world headquarters to a new, 160,000 square-foot campus in Dallas, Texas. DALLAS, Texas (June 3, 2020) &mdash Heritage Auctions has moved its global headquarters into a new state-of-the-art, 160,000-square foot facility and multi-purpose campus, befitting its status as the largest auction house founded in America. As of June 1, Heritage Auctions’ global headquarters is now located at 2801 W. Airport Freeway, Dallas, Texas …

H.R. 6923 – Essential Worker Commemorative Coin Legislation

June 8, 2020 by Clinton

A new piece of legislation has been introduced into the House of Representatives to honor essential workers in the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic with a commemorative coin. H.R. 6923 was introduced into the House by Representative by Jack Bergman (R-MI) on May 19, 2020. The legislation’s working title is the thrust behind this new legislation: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the health care professionals, first responders, scientists, researchers, …

Mail Bag – What is a Satin Finish Coin?

June 29, 2020June 7, 2020 by Clinton

Welcome to the Mail Bag, a somewhat regular feature here on USCoinNews that highlights a question or a comment from a reader of the site. Today’s question comes from Marcus. They write asking what the difference is between a regular coin finish and a satin finish. They write… Hi, I’m curious to know what a satin finish coin is exactly. I see them referred to in red book but I cannot find a good explanation …

Mint Production Report – May 2020

June 4, 2020 by Clinton

The United States Mint has updates its monthly production report for May 2020, showing that just over 900 million circulating coins were produced in the month. That puts 2020’s production just shy of 5 billion coins. In total, 904,120,000 coins were produced in May 2020, 414.76 million of those in the Denver Mint facility while the remaining 387.08 million were produced in Philadelphia. As is nearly always the case, the Lincoln Cent was the most …

Basketball Hall of Fame Commemoratives On Sale Today

June 4, 2020 by Clinton

2020 Basketball Hall of Fame Commemorative Proof Reverse

The United States Mint is set to start sales of the Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative products. Sales of the new commemoratives will begin today starting at Noon Eastern, 9:00 AM Pacific. In total, there will be seven products commemorating the Hall of Fame ranging from sets for children up to gold coins. Here is a list of all of the products that will be going on sale today. Note that the production limit and …

ANA Launches eLearning Academy

June 3, 2020 by Clinton

During what would have been the American Numismatic Association’s (ANA) annual Summer Seminar event – June 29-July 10, the Association will instead offer free virtual courses through its new ANA eLearning Academy. Eleven courses that would have been offered during the week-long Summer Seminar will be offered in a condensed one- to two-hour online format. Courses are open to both ANA members and non-members; there is no charge to participate but preregistration is required. Summer Seminar is a once-a-year opportunity …