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 Friday, August 10, 2007
Price Updates to Rare Czechoslovakian Dates
Posted by tom

TMupdown.gif Rare late Date Czechoslovakian Gold Brings High Prices

I arrived at the ANA convention yesterday afternoon with the help of fellow KP workers David Kranz and Katy Gertz, to find a completely new and exciting booth set up for our products and web services. Specially for this major show our staff had set up a wondeful open booth which allowed collectors and dealers to float right in and engage us in conversation, with no table barriers at all. This new set-up coupled with the ready availability of lap-top computers to access NumisMaster for demonstrations lead to some great exchanges of vital information on new issues and coin values.

The great aspect of all this was that I was able examine coins, verify information and immediately enter the new data into NumisMaster, live to all our subscribers, on the spot. What a wonderful world!

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Specifically I had an unuexpected visitor from Czechoslovakia, who assisted us in updating values for some of the extremely rare and desirebale late dates in the Czechoslovakian gold Dukat Trade Coinage series. Using notes on auction records and information on private offerings we updated values, sometimes in multiples of two or three times, for the 1936-39 dates and also the tough 1951 dates in the Dukat series. All of this was entered directly into NumisMaster and became available to all subscribers immediately after I verified and entered the data. We were also able to enter a new listing for an interesting coin, struck but never released for circulation, which I was lucky enough to be able to examine at the show.

 


Price Change of the Week
8/10/2007 10:51:27 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #  Comments [0]
 Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Snippets of fun stuff
Posted by tom

TMgavel.gif Auction Lot of the Week
 I’m always looking at auction lots, both on line and in catalogs, so each week I’ll share with you one of the more unusual ones I’ve come across.


TMfamilywork.gifTom’s Inescapable Truths
We’ll attempt to inject a little humor into this Blog with some funny little quips on family and office life.


Price Change of the Week
Values are continually being changed in our database. Each week I’ll cue you in to a single price change of prominent significance.


Tom’s Recommended Film of the Week
I watch a lot of movies, so each week, just for fun, you’ll get to find out which one I thought was the best.


Focus Country
Here I will try to give you a little news you can use. This segment will feature a country, which is on the move price wise, or has some significant news worthy event happening that day or week.


Friday Fix
Each Friday I’ll post the precious metals closes, London fix.



Commemorative Showdown!
With commemortive coinage exploding all over the market, I thought it would be interesting to create ratios of population compared to number of commemorative coin types by country. Over time we'll be able to rank counties by their ratios to see which ones produce the most commeorative coins per capita. Population data will be derived from the CIA website, while commemorative type totals will be compiled from the Standard Catalog of World Coins database for issues from 1901 to present.


Old to New – Book Review
A guide to building a working numismatic library, based on brief reviews of older references and classic auction catalogs, along with reviews of new works and recent auction sales of significance.


KP Update
For those who like to be in the know, I'll give you the inside track on what Standard catalogs and other new coin books are on the horizon from Krause Publications, plus Numismaster updates and news of other web offerings.


Auction Lot of the Week | Commemorative Showdown! | Focus Country | Friday Fix | KP Update | Old to New - Book Review | Price Change of the Week | Tom's Inescapable Truths | Tom's Recommended Film of the Week
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