2008 State Quarter Designs are Released
Wednesday November 28, 2007
The U.S. Mint has released the artists' renderings for next year's Statehood Quarters. The program will be in its tenth and final year in 2008, unless Congressional legislation extends ... Read More
Mint Error News #21 Has Been Published
Tuesday November 27, 2007
Mike Byers has published the latest edition of his free error coin magazine Mint Error News. Issue #21 features lots of photos and information about error coins, as usual, ... Read More
First Spouse Gold Coins Honored at the White House
Monday November 19, 2007
First Lady Laura Bush hosted a reception today at the White House for U.S. Mint artists and VIPs in honor the First Spouse Gold Coin series, and to launch the ... Read More
Sacagawea Dollar With Edge Lettering Found!
Sunday November 18, 2007
PCGS is reporting on their Web site that they have paid out a $10,000 reward to Andrew Moores of Lakewood, Colorado, for submitting the first known authentic Sacagawea Dollar with ... Read More
James Madison Dollar Doubled Die Already Found!
Friday November 16, 2007
The James Madison Presidential Dollar was just released yesterday, and already error coin aficionado extraordinaire Shawn Bell has found a doubled die reverse! The doubling is in the same ... Read More
Win Some Sunken Treasure Coins!
Wednesday November 14, 2007
It's not very often that coins are offered as prizes in major sweepstakes, so when my colleague Sandra Grauschopf, the About.com Guide to Contests & Sweepstakes told me about the ... Read More
Coin Dealer Ethics - Coins Lost in the Mail Follow-up
Monday November 12, 2007
Last week, we looked at a situation where a $42 lot of coins disappeared in the mail. After several emails and about 20 days' time, the coins were still ... Read More
The Utah State Quarter is Released
Friday November 9, 2007
The Utah State Quarter was officially released today (Friday, Nov. 9, 2007,) in a grand ceremony hosted by the Governor of Utah, Jon Hunstman, Jr., Utah First Lady Mary Kaye ... Read More
Coin Collecting Humor
Wednesday November 7, 2007
Finding good humor is very difficult, since we all have different senses of humor and ways of finding different things funny. However, I'm pretty sure that everyone will find ... Read More
Weekly Coin News for Nov. 6, 2007
Tuesday November 6, 2007
Interesting things take place every week in the coin collecting community, but many of these things are either too involved for me to cover properly, or are too small to ... Read More
Coin Dealer Ethics - Coins Lost in the Mail
Sunday November 4, 2007
As a part-time coin seller myself (selling off duplicates, extras, and dabbling in selling uncleaned ancient coins for a few years,) I've seen things from both sides of the dealer's ... Read More