FREE TOOLS AND DOWNLOADS
Subscribe to Numismatic News
More Numismatic Magazines
Polls
Should the U.S. Mint hold more open competitions to design U.S. coins?
Loading ...Community Voice
You have a voice with us. Make your opinion heard on current coin collecting news and events, and get published.
- Register today to submit a letter to the editor!

Letters to the Editor
- This Week's Letters (05/28/13) Our great U.S. Mint has done it again. When I received my three proof sets from the mint I noticed that on the side cover it had 2012 proof set printed. It did have the correct 2013 on the face of the box. Does the Mint have any kind of quality control?


Marketplace Links
Coin & Paper Money Classifieds
Place an ad to buy or sell coins online in our classifieds section.
Numismatic Directory
Browse our industry directory of coin dealers online, world coin dealers, paper money dealers, coin collecting supplies, coin auctions and more.
Numismaster Coin Price Guide
Look up coin values with the Numismaster coin price guide.
Coin & Paper Money Auctions
Check out upcoming coin auctions.
Holed large cents had many uses
Why are so many of the old large cents holed? Many have one hole, but I’ve seen several with two holes in them. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Rulau happy to go where hobby led
Russ Rulau was behaving like a kid again at the end. I don’t mean that at the age of 86 he had somehow lost his adult mental faculties, but he was showing the childlike enthusiasm that we all have felt about numismatics. It was clearly bubbling up within him the last time I visited him. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Time is the greatest collector ally
The great lesson of this collection is not how clever, special or wealthy the collector was. It was simply time. He collected his material and held it through thick and thin for many years. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
New ingredient in new car smell?
He was a Ford vehicle owner. As such, he received a copy of the Fall 2012 issue of Ford Magazine. Being a collector, his attention was immediately drawn to an article on Page 7 that was so short it hardly qualified as anything more than a fun fact. But in his mind, what a fact it is. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Mint should reconsider marketing
The Mint’s new coin marketing should not be all that different from car marketing. Coin ownership and car ownership send the same messages. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Can coin use be eliminated quicker?
The fate of the vending machine industry and coins have been intertwined for my entire time in the hobby. What the vending machine industry wants, it gets. The fate of all coins basically rests with it. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Time to kill off commemoratives
The first U.S commemorative coin program was shut down in 1954 and the door to further issuance was nailed shut for 28 years because of abuses in the authorization and sales processes in the 1920s and 1930s. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features 1 Comment
Little Iola is where everybody lives
What existed then as now is a group of people who are committed to numismatics and who treat every other person who shares this interest as if he or she is a friend that we have just met on the way to the IGA, or the Crystal Cafe. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Special anniversary issue up next
Subscribers are about to receive an extra issue of Numismatic News to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of this paper and celebrate the company that grew from this beginning. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment
Mint nomination came as surprise
Bibiana Boerio to be director of the U.S. Mint arrived just a few minutes before Page 1 was sent to the printer. In fact, Page 1 had been awaiting final check to go, but I was able to call it back to get this important information out to readers as quickly as possible. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Class of '63, Features Leave a comment





