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- U.S. Mint Basketball Coin Surprise Wife Plays Key Role in Obtaining Basketball Coin OK, I see people all the time that say “I got this, or I got that,” so you can say “Hey, it’s my turn.” I had read about the Basketball coins in one of your mags, and about all there would be offered. Then we got COVID-19 and ...
Tag Archives: auctions
Gold Rush Excepted for ‘Goldbug’ Collection
Heritage Auctions strikes gold this fall by offering The James Dines “Original Goldbug” Collection, named for the legendary financial prognosticator who is also an esteemed numismatist. Dines, who rose to forecasting fame in the 1950s and ’60s, has spent more … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, coin auctions, coin news, goldbug collection
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Coronavirus Determines Supply and Demand
By Richard Giedroyc The spot price of gold is at about $1,750 an ounce at the moment this commentary is being written, yet 1-ounce gold American Eagle coins are selling for as much as $1,900! What is going on? Simply … Continue reading
Rare Coins at Auction Excel
By Richard Giedroyc We appear to be dealing with a tale of two markets. There always have been multiple marketplaces through which collectibles and bullion are sold, but what is glaring now is the difference between those coins that are … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, CMAG, coin market at a glance, rare coins
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Islamic Gold Dinar realizes over $4 Million
We have recently learned that one of the world’s rarest and most highly-prized of all Islamic gold coins, or any coin, was sold by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London on Thursday, Oct. 24 for an outstanding £3,720,000 million … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, islamic gold coin, Morton & Eden, umayad dinar, World Coins
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Auction Fever Does Not Appear to be Contagious
Coin dealers continue to report brisk business. However, despite this increasing demand, clients remain bearish regarding retail price increases for anything other than bullion and bullion-impacted coins. This isn’t true just for coins that are considered to be collectible yet … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, bullion, Bullion impacted coins, CMAG, coin dealers, coin market at a glance
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Letters to the Editor: Oct. 1, 2019
DissapointMINT Last May 28, I filled out a Mint form telling them I was missing a bonus cent from three I was supposed to receive. In the box they were shipped in, the three cents were in a small cellophane … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, coins show etiquette, letters to the editor, penny, u.s. mint
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Stack’s Bowers ANA preview
ANA’s World’s Fair of Money® 2019 is just a few weeks away. For the past several months auction houses across the U.S. have been assembling items that might titillate the plastic cards of customers from Aug. 13-on. In May the … Continue reading
NGC Grades Gold and Palladium Rarities in Germany
The rarities graded on-site will be offered by SINCONA at auction in May. Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) graded two significant collections during its recent on-site grading event in Munich, Germany, held February 18-23, 2019. The collections were submitted by SINCONA … Continue reading
Dr. Miller’s 37 Crowns realize $606,728
In an apt piece of historic irony Charles II beat-out Cromwell’s Commonwealth at Spink’s late March sale of the fabled Miller Collection of English silver crowns. Mere adjectives do not do justice to the collection of Dr. Erik Miller. Clichés … Continue reading
$10 gets $45,000
An 1864 $10 Compound Interest Bearing Note, Fr. 190b, brought a hammer price of $45,000 in Lyn Knight Currency Auctions’ CPMX 2012 sale in Rosemont, Ill. The sale was held from March 8-10 at the Crowne Plaza O’Hare in conjunction with the 18th Annual Chicago Paper Money Expo. Continue reading
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