Innehållsförteckning för March 2023 från Coins

United States Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson on Nov. 10 accepted the 2022 Coin of the Year (COTY) Award for Most Historically Significant Coin for the 2020 Women’s Suffrage Centennial silver dollar from Peter H. Miller, president of Active Interest Media’s Home Group, which publishes World Coin News, Numismatic News, Coins magazine and Bank Note Reporter. The 2022 Coin of the Year program is presented by World Coin News and sponsored by the Journal of East Asian Numismatics. It honors coins dated 2020. The obverse of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial silver dollar features overlapping profiles of three distinct women. Each woman is wearing a different type of hat to symbolize the many decades the suffrage movement spanned. The figure in the foreground is wearing a cloche hat with an art…

There comes a point in every collector’s life when he or she is faced with a terrifying thought: When should I stop adding to my collection and start getting rid of it? If you have heirs who are interested in collecting coins and would be good custodians of your collection, this is an easy question to answer. You’ll just keep adding coins until either dementia or death catches up to you. But what if you don’t have any interested heirs? What do you do in that case? At this point, a lot depends on the value of your collection. Does it consist primarily of relatively modern coins? Proof or mint sets you’ve bought from the Mint? Modern foreign coins with little or no bullion value? Or is your collection relatively…

IN THE YEAR 2021, the United States Mint got just about every collector to sit up and take notice when they unveiled the 2021 Morgan and Peace dollars as centennial versions of the two classic series. The ever-present interest in the Morgan and Peace dollars went up a further notch and stayed there as the new versions were unveiled. To the chagrin of many in the collector community, the very next year the official word was that silver from suppliers to the Mint had been disrupted by the COVID pandemic, and there would be no Morgan and Peace dollars dated 2022. That announcement got many of us thinking that the 2021’s were going to be a one-hit wonder or the proverbial flash in the pan, and thus the dust settled…

My grandparents would collect random foreign money for me this beginning a very mature child coin collection. My mother was recently cleaning and found an envelope my grandmother had left for me before she passed but I was too young for this delicate money at the time. I believe her eldest brother brought them back after WWII. I honestly have no idea the value of these and the rest of this strange pile or even where to go with all my coins and things so any advice would be appreciated. Kim Alpert Address withheld In 28 rolls of nickels, I found 15 WWII silver nickels. Within a bag of cents, I found numerous wheat cents. Harold Address withheld I began collecting pennies when I was 10 years of age. Any…

A coin does not have to be worth a million dollars to be important. Of course, if a coin is worth $1 million, it is important, at least for the time being. But if that were the sole gauge of what makes a coin significant, there would be very few coins to make that grade. There are any number of reasons why a coin might be considered important. It might have a unique place in history, such as the World’s Columbian Exposition half dollar of 1892 or a 1933 Saint-Gaudens gold eagle. When it comes to being important in terms of the hobby, there is probably no more important coin than one that attracts a great deal of interest on the part of the public. A coin that fascinates non-collectors…

CIRCULATION COINAGE Half Cent Cent 2 Cents Silver 3 Cents Nickel 3 Cents Half Dime 5 Cents Dime 20 Cents Quarter 50 State Quarters DC and Territories America the Beautiful Half Dollar Dollar American Innovation $1 Coin Presidents $1 (Gold) $2.50 (Quarter Eagle) $3 $5 (Half Eagle) $10 (Eagle) $20 (Double Eagle) COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE 1892-1954 Quarter Half Dollar Dollar $2.50 (Quarter Eagle) $50 MODERN COMMEMORATIVE COINAGE 1982PRESENT Dime Quarter American Women Quarters Program Half Dollar Dollar $5 (Half Eagle) $10 (Eagle) $20 (Double Eagle) $100 Commemorative Coin Sets Uncirculated Rolls Federal America Non Denominated 50 State Quarters Mint Sets Proof Sets FIRST SPOUSE GOLD COINAGE $10 (Eagle) AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL SILVER BULLION Quarter…

AS I’M writing this, Christmas is rapidly approaching. When that’s over, the New Year will be upon us. Among other things, the New Year reminds me of resolutions, the promise of changes we’ll make to improve our lives. Perhaps you’ll vow to finally start exercising or eating right or losing weight. Of course, these changes are interrelated. There may be other changes you desire that are unrelated. There may even be resolutions that you ought to make that you haven’t even considered. For example, do you have some coins? Do you consider yourself more of an accumulator of coins, or a collector of them? If the latter, where do you reside in the pantheon of collectors? That is, are you a beginner, middle-level collector, or an advanced collector, perhaps even…

The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation recently conducted an eight-hour class, “Counterfeit Coin and Precious Metals Investigations” to 35 Kansas and Missouri local, state and federal law enforcement investigators. Participants in the ACEF seminar were shown examples of fake numismatic items during the training session held in the Kansas City suburb of Mission, Kan. “This educational program is one of the many strategic initiatives of ACEF to address the mass proliferation of counterfeit coins and precious metals within the U.S. marketplace,” said seminar co-presenter Doug Davis, ACEF director of anti-counterfeiting. “Chris Hersey, Senior Agent in the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Inspector General, and I prepared a comprehensive presentation designed to provide attendees with the skill set to thoroughly investigate counterfeit coin and precious metals cases and identify the tools and investigative…

The recently launched NGCX coin certification service established by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation has been raising eyebrows, not necessarily due to cynicism. Unlike previous coin grading and authentication services, NGCX will use a 10-point rather than a 70-point grading scale. Some collectors and dealers are leery of this since the question needs to be addressed regarding if all previously “slabbed” coins will eventually need to be re-slabbed – at a cost. In fact, the new 10-point system is meant to address relatively recent issues, these being from 1968 forward. From a marketing perspective, this may ensure the post-1968 coin sector may prove to be a vastly under-valued emerging market and coinage asset class. While some collectors may see no need for NGCX due to the many 70-point graded collector coins already…