Indholdsfortegnelse for July 2022 i Coins

In the past three decades, the field of gold and silver bullion coins has exploded. In the 1970’s, there were a few issuers of gold bullion coins, but by the end of the 1980’s there was a playing field with a huge number of mints issuing both gold and silver bullion coins. For the most part, silver bullion coins were one-ounce pieces, while the gold bullion offerings spanned from a high of one-ounce down to a low of 1/10-ounce pieces. An entire generation of collectors has come up with these coins and find them to be as normal as any other coin series. But even the bullion coin market is now seeing some changes and expansions. Let’s look at a few of the bullion coins that are not as popular…

It seems like I’m always one edition behind reviewing the monster editions of the expanded version of Whitman’s venerable A Guide Book of United States Coins (aka the Red Book). Although the Mega Red 7th edition has been out since June 2021, each of the earlier editions contains enough added material to warrant a place in any numismatist’s library. Like its brethren, Mega Red 6 is gigantic, weighing in at a whopping 5 pounds 8.7 ounces. To put this in perspective, it would take nearly six 2022 Red Books to weigh as much as a single Mega Red 6. Some other statistics to ponder: the 2022 Red Book has 460 5 x 7.75-inch pages compared to Mega Red’s 1,502 7 x 10-inch pages. Obviously, with more and larger pages, Mega…

On Saturday, February 5, I received my first 2022 coin in change from Wegman’s in Geneseo, NY. What was the most surprising thing is that it was a Maya Angelou quarter! Since they were just released, I didn’t expect to see any for a while. Scott Canaan Address withheld May not be the most interesting coin out there but in my 50 years of collecting I have never gotten a new year penny as early as this year. On February 9 received a 2022D cent in change. That was a surprise. Michael Marx Alameda Calif. On Feb. 7 I received a 2022-D Maya Angelou quarter in change at a local restaurant. This is the earliest in many years that I have seen a new issue coin show up in circulation…

Have you given any thought to collecting platinum bullion coins? Is there a rationale for collecting American Eagles minted on platinum planchets? And how does platinum compare to gold as an investment? As I write this, gold’s value is $1,922 an ounce, with platinum at $951 an ounce. In other words, gold is worth more than twice as much as platinum. This gold/platinum differential hasn’t always been the case, however. A graph comparing platinum and gold values over time reveals that for many years platinum’s value was significantly above that of gold. This was true from about 1946 through the mid 1970s, at which time gold dramatically increased to make the two metals approximately equal in value. They stayed this way until the turn of the century. At that point,…

Both investors and collectors keep asking themselves if gold is going to skyrocket to $2,000 an ounce or rebalance to a trading range around $1,850. The wavy scenario that has shown both sides of this coin has been playing out throughout the past month as equity markets dropped into bear territory due to war, inflation, pestilence (in the form of COVID) and a shaky world economy – then rebounded. The metals reacted accordingly as nervous stock market investors rushed for the exits. Anyone who buys, sells, speculates in or collects gold-, silver- or platinum-content coins should be watching precious metal markets for those reasons. Those individuals who are collecting recently released U.S. Mint made-for-collector issues such as commemorative coins, medals and mint and proof sets will see some modest price…