Innehållsförteckning för June 17, 2025 från Numismatic News

The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) announced its sixth set of Newman Grants, created to financially assist numismatic authors and organizations pursuing original research in American and world numismatics. Newman Grants are awarded annually on the late Eric P. Newman’s birthday and assist with direct costs of numismatic research such as travel, photography, and graphic arts services. Five awards are being made this year, touching on varied aspects of American numismatics. The 2025 Newman Grant awardees are as follows: Greg Bennick will conduct oral history interviews with prominent numismatists and will document these voices for future generations of collectors and researchers. John Frost will travel to San Bruno, Calif. to work with U.S. Mint material at the National Archives, in preparation for a second edition of his work…

Classic United States silver coinage has a few series that are always front and center, always in the limelight among collectors, especially when extremely high-end examples go up for sale in some auction. They are the Morgan and Peace dollars, as well as the Walking Liberty and Franklin half dollars. We have looked at them all in some way or another within these Bargain Collector columns, but it seems we have missed a couple of gems. Let’s do some price comparisons among the proof Walking Liberty half dollars, specifically those made from 1939 to 1942. All the proof Walking Liberty halves Some collectors make the claim that the modern proof program for United States coins began in 1950, because there has been an output of proofs virtually every year since…

Fewer coins and bank notes are used in commerce than in the past, yet the U.S. Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing relentlessly continue to pump out more physical cash. There is a flip side to this “coin,” that being the almost ever-increasing interest of both the collecting and general public in commemorative coins. This is a mix of non-circulating legal tender commemoratives, specially struck otherwise bullion issues, and circulating commemoratives still being spent as cash. The times are changing, and so is coin collecting. There will always be a healthy number of collectors seeking older coins. Those collectors seeking new or very recently released coins are changing with the times, which is a good thing. Several different designs appear annually on the reverse of our quarters. The mint…

There is little question that $100 does not buy as much as it once did. It might not buy you a meal at your favorite restaurant, a trip to see your favorite sports team, or tickets to that concert you want to see. Rare coins are no exception. For $100, you can barely put a dent in the new issues of any given year just from the United States. Rare coins make that sum seem even smaller. Despite the fact that you may not have substantial sums of money to spend on the coins in your collection, there is no reason to think that you are unable to obtain some truly fascinating and surprisingly scarce coins at what seem like virtually bargain basement prices if you only take the time…

At the present time, the issuing of commemorative coins has become almost commonplace, with numerous groups asking for a special coin honoring their projects. The idea is, of course, to get money for their cause by requiring the avid collector to pay a surcharge for the privilege of owning the coin in question; these pieces are not really coins in the true sense of the word, but the government says otherwise, and they are therefore collectible. Most collectors tend to think that the first commemorative coin minted by the United States was the Columbian half dollar of 1892, which was issued at a premium to help pay for the well-known exposition held in Chicago the following year. This is not true, however, and the first commemorative coin in this country…

Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green is well known in the coin hobby for his fabulous collection, which once included all five of the 1913 Liberty Head nickels, his lavish lifestyle, and the eccentric past of his mother, Hetty Green. For the February 1966 issue of Coins magazine, James Woll penned a piece on Green. It was titled: “Ned Green: He had money when money was money, and when he bought coins, he bought.” “If you have ever looked through a big coin or stamp auction catalog, read about the 1913 Liberty head nickels, collected stamps, or just heard about some of America’s millionaires, you have probably heard of Ned Green,” Woll wrote. “Edward Howland Robinson Green was born in 1868 in London, England, where his parents had gone to sit…

Here are some answers sent from our e-newsletter readers. Read more responses at www.numismaticnews.com. Do you think counterfeit detection is getting better or worse with modern technology? Why? I am unsure if the detection is better, but there are many counterfeit coins out there to be purchased online. I know someone who purchased a Morgan Carson City fake. I noticed immediately that there were no markings on the face. None. It was pristine. He purchased it for $24.95 and wants to have the website shut down. He said they are even making fake coin holders with NGC and PCGS that are identical to the eye. This needs to be stopped. Name and Address withheld I think technology is permitting better counterfeits, which are increasingly difficult to detect. Elizabeth GriffinAddress withheld…

Returning from the ANA National Money Show in Atlanta as the calendar turned from February to March, I had the misfortune to have my left leg come up quite lame. These days, I’m navigating with the assistance of a Hurry-Cane. The discomfort was initially of sufficient intensity that it deterred me from escaping home to take in a couple of local shows that were penned in on my calendar. The annual Waukesha Coin Club show in suburban Milwaukee and the Nicolet Coin Club’s annual spring gathering in Green Bay. Finally, with mid-March’s arrival of Holy Week and the Fox Valley Coin Club’s 69th annual Palm Sunday show in Appleton, I felt sufficiently confident to venture forth and test the possible repercussions of extended coin show walking. Firing up the Audi…

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