Littleton Coin Company is perhaps the best-known coin dealer in America. Their advertising can be found across a broad spectrum of magazines and media. They employ more than ... Read More

Collectors Universe (CU), the parent company of PCGS, issued a press release this evening stating that Ron Guth has resigned as PCGS President so that he can focus on developing ... Read More

Virtually everyone in America has spare pennies accumulating someplace (unless you throw them in the trash regularly, like some folks claim to do.) Well, now we have something productive ... Read More

I have a small section on my Web site called a "blogroll widget." This blogroll widget is a place where I can provide links to a half-dozen or so ... Read More

Last week, I presented a scenario where a coin dealer (Ernest) sold his business (Honest Man Coins), only to die a short time later.  A customer (Jason) approached the new owner ... Read More

The U.S. Mint announced this morning what the new penny designs for 2009 will be. As most avid coin collectors know, the beloved U.S. penny has had the same ... Read More

The U.S. Mint will make a major announcement about the new U.S. Cent design on Monday morning. The penny, which hasn't had a substantive obverse ("heads" side) design change ... Read More

My regular readers know that I always encourage people to take immediate physical possession of their coins and bullion when they buy them, rather than letting companies store them on ... Read More

This edition of "Coin Dealer Ethics" deals with inheritance; not the kind of inheritance where someone dies and you get their fabulous coin collection, but where a coin dealer decides ... Read More

Have you ever wondered what the best ways to ruin your coins are? Of course, none of us want to ruin our coins, but you might be doing ... Read More

Have you ever noticed that characteristic metallic smell when handling certain kinds of coins? It's hard to describe, but it's usually a deep, iron-like stink that's especially noticeable when ... Read More

I avoided doing a Morgan Dollar value guide for a long time, because Morgan Dollar prices don't fall into the same easy categories that most other coins do. For ... Read More

Although the U.S. Mint has been listening and communicating better this past couple of years, I think they're getting way too greedy in their product mark-ups. Take, for example, ... Read More

Several months ago, the U.S. Mint began offering Presidential Dollar coins at face value, with no added shipping and handling charges, as part of its initiative to promote circulation of ... Read More