Innehållsförteckning för December 10, 2024 från Numismatic News

Auctions are a major part of the trade for coins. Many auction houses will volunteer a summary of the results of their most recent auction. A summary offered by the company Nomos AG regarding their recent auction held in Zürich, Switzerland, is unusual. For that reason, I am quoting their comments here: “Well, there has been another eventful Sunday here in Zürich: unlike in other places where they have riots, bad temper, obnoxiousness, and general grumpiness, everything went smoothly, probably because so many serious people were happily ensconced before their computer screens, bidding on the multitude of interesting lots in our eAuction, Obolos 34!! After all, while you may be having a herculean struggle with another bidder online for some coin you really want, logistics dictate that you cannot, as…

We hit the ground running to start the fourth quarter of the year, adding over 850 new coins with images to the website for the first month, with roughly half of that amount coming from Niue, which has reached over 7,450 in KM numbers. Working on Niue can be a daunting task, with almost 20 mints that produce coins for them. Which begs the question: How many coins are too many coins for a country in any given year? We would love to hear what you think, so if you have an idea or opinion, email us at n@aimmedia.com, and we will share your thoughts in the next issue. Just as new issue wrap-ups come into play in the last quarter of the year, so do Fall editorial and pricing…

Even though most collectors cannot afford to own a United States coin or pattern from 1792, there has always been a strong interest in the operations of the Mint during its opening year. As early as the 1840s, there were published accounts of the coinage. Still, most of the documentation from the 19th century is tantalizingly short of the details necessary to understand this year completely. With the discovery over the past few years of new documents from 1792 that throw light on an area little known in the past, it is time to do a more complete study of the 1792 coinage from the perspective of what we now know. One of the enduring disputes connected with the early Mint, for example, is the question of the portrait on…

There weren’t many major changes in this month’s report, many of the increases were by only one or two coins. Some had a couple hundred. The 2024 American Innovation Proof Set had an increase of over 1,300. More impressive was the 2024 American Eagle 1-ounce silver proof, which jumped over 2,500. Proof sets, in general, seemed to be of interest to collectors in the last month. The 2024 American Women Quarters Proof set saw an increase of over a thousand, but the 2024 Proof Set had an increase of over 14,000. We don’t see increases like this very often. There were a couple of additions made to this month’s report. First was the release of the 2024 Flowing Hair silver medal. With a mintage limit of 75,000, 49,996 were sold…

On Dec. 5, 2024, the U.S. Mint’s Army Bronze Medal will become available for collectors. The obverse depicts both a Continental and a modern soldier, weapons at the ready. With the inscription “SINCE 1775,” the soldiers are a representation of the U.S. Army’s founding and continued mission to defend the Nation. The copper medal’s reverse lists the seven core values of the army alongside the Army flag. Several streamers with major battles are lifted in a breeze. The medal will become available just in time for the holidays, a wonderful gift idea for the veteran or active duty member in your family.…

Have you seen the Mint’s advertisements for a new silver medal that will copy the 1794 silver dollar? It was made available for purchase on Oct. 15, 2014, and by the time you read this column, it may be way too late to order a medal directly from the Mint with premium features (privy mark, letter signed by the Mint Director, see below). I expect there will be many for sale on eBay, however. The medal recreates the look of the Mint’s first dollar coin, the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar, of which only 1,758 were produced. With that low mintage and the passage of 230 years, the 1794 dollar is rare and quite pricey. How rare and how pricey? According to the PCGS Price Guide, an estimated 150 are known.…

How Jackie Changed The Kennedy Half Dollar” reads a headline on the cover of the August 1965 issue of Coins magazine. This issue showcases a story by former U.S. Mint chief sculptor Gilroy Roberts highlighting the behind-the-scenes efforts to quickly bring the Kennedy half dollar into circulation following President John F. Kennedy’s November 1963 assassination. Of the advent of the Kennedy half dollar, Coins wrote as a lead into Roberts’ article: “JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY was inaugurated President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1961, and served not quite three full years of his term of office. His untimely death on Nov. 22, 1963, resulted in such an outpouring of public sentiment that President Johnson, on Dec. 10, 1963, sent to Congress legislation authorizing the treasury department to mint new…

Collectors of proof coins have wonderful arguments and discussions about fine details of grading, as well as of when our Mint got a true proof set program up and running. Some claim our first proof sets were made in 1936, and thus the program started then. Others point out that there are proofs for many years prior to 1936, and so claim that a program for proof sets started far earlier than that year. Still others claim that 1950 is the start of our proof set program, simply because there have been such sets for virtually every year since. In the midst of all this, there are some years for which most of the proof sets appear to have been broken up. It might be worth looking at one specific…

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