Join the fun, Monday, April 11, 2016, when two Middlesboro Elementary School fourth-grade students take the helm at the United States Mint launch ceremony for the America the Beautiful Quarters coin honoring Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The event starts at 11 a.m. at the park’s visitor center on Pinnacle Road in Middlesboro, Ky.The free event will conclude...
Sales open at noon Eastern Time April 7 by the United States Mint for the Uncirculated 2016-W American Eagle 1-ounce gold $50 coin. The coin has no product limit or household ordering restrictions. Pricing for the coin is governed by the U.S. Mint's pricing grid for numismatic products containing precious metals.
The early American Eagle platinum bullion coins are surprisingly rare in MS-70 condition, as evidenced by Heritage’s sale of a 1997 American Eagle half-ounce platinum $50 coin graded MS-70 by PCGS for $10,594.98 at the March American Numismatic Association National Money Show auction in Dallas.
Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., is reserved April 13 for congressional leadership to present a congressional gold medal honoring members of the 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers. The unit comprised soldiers predominantly from Puerto Rico. The regiment derived it nickname,"The Borinqueneers," from the indigenous...
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Casey Chan, the editor of SPLOID, raised an interesting point in a recent online post. How can vending machines tell the difference between real coins and fake coins? Chan, who mentions that he often pondered the thought as a child, learned how these machines are able to keep up. "Vending machines use light sensors to measure the size of a coin and electromagnets...
The 1993 American Eagle half-ounce gold $25 coin is very rare in the “perfect” grade, and at the March American Numismatic Association auction, Heritage sold one graded Proof 70 Deep Cameo by PCGS for $11,574.93.
The public will gets its first glimpse of the 2016 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park quarter dollar when the issue debuts during official U.S. Mint launch ceremonies June 8 in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The 10 a.m. Eastern Time ceremony is scheduled to be staged at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Lower Town, Hamilton Street along the Shenandoah River, in Harpers...
As prices for early United States copper coins continue to increase, half cents and large cents from the 1790s are becoming targets for counterfeiters. The fake shown here was produced from transfer dies, where all of the details from a genuine model coin are transferred to a set of fake dies, resulting in a counterfeit that appears genuine at first glance.
The American Eagle bullion program started in 1986 with the production of gold and silver coins and in 1997 expanded to include platinum bullion coins. It has since proven extremely popular with collectors and investors, and condition rarities among the earlier years in the series can draw collector interest and prices well above bullion value.
In 2004, veteran coin dealer Don Wenger discovered a 1943 Lincoln bronze cent while sorting through Wheat cents. After first testing to see whether it was attracted to a magnet (it wasn’t), and checking to see if the last numeral was an altered 8 (it wasn’t), Don submitted the coin to several leading grading services. Numismatic Guaranty Corp. declared it “not...
