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The United States Mint will introduce the Yellowstone National Park Quarter to the Nation on Thursday, June 3, at 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time (MT). 2010 Yellowstone National Park Quarter – Click to Enlarge The special ceremony will take place near Old Faithful geyser, which is depicted on the reverse (tails side) of the coin. Following [...]

Professional Coin Grading Service (www.PCGS.com) today revealed additional steps it is taking to improve its ability to detect altered coins. PCGS announced that it has a process in development which will detect any foreign substance on a coin’s surface, and also announced a major lawsuit filed against alleged coin doctors. According to PCGS officials, in [...]

It’s just about World Cup time, when the greatest footballers from around the globe put on the national uniforms to seek out glory. Like just about every other World Cup tournament, this go-round has had its controversies. The host country! The Thierry Henry handball incident! The anthem! … Full Article: Coin (Friday and) Monday: World [...]

Early quarters of the United States are a tough group. It was apparently a case where the quarter was simply not a high priority for many years so the early quarters are a tough collection to assemble. Things are much better for collectors when it comes to Seated Liberty quarters. They may be a collection [...]

The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the Jane Pierce First Spouse Gold Coin on June 3, 2010, at noon Eastern Time (ET). Jane Pierce First Spouse Gold Proof and Uncirculated Coins – Click Image to Enlarge The one-half ounce 24-karat gold coin, struck at the United States Mint at West Point, will [...]

I had an e-mail this morning from Asia. The sender wanted to know if I was interested in trading for coins he had. The images he sent looked like fakes to me. Now thanks to spam e-mails like this the fakes come right to my desk. I don’t have to search online auctions anymore. Next [...]

The Yellowstone National Park Quarter, the second of fifty-six coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program, launches this week.         Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the state of Wyoming, has the distinction of being named the first national park in the U.S. when it was so designated on March 1, [...]

Overview: Nortec Ventures is focused on the exploration of a number of properties in Finland, Canada and Equador. This includes the 100% owned Tammela Lithium-Tin-Tantalum Project in the south west of the country. Nortec is also exploring the LK Palladium-Platinum-Gold-Copper-Nickel Project (formerly the combined Kaukua-Haukiaho Projects) in north central Finland; the Seinajoki-Kaatiala Gold-Antimony-REE Property in [...]

1922 Grant Gold Dollar NGC Research Unlike many commemorative coins, which were the subject of seemingly endless debate and revision, the Grant Memorial gold dollar made it to the coin press with relatively little conflict. Of course, it helped that the sculptor member of the Fine Arts Commission, James Earle Fraser of Buffalo nickel fame, [...]

The commemorative series in gold "Celebrated Physicians of Austria" concludes with a coin for the renowned Viennese doctor, Clemens von Pirquet (1874-1929). Austria 2010 50€ Clemens von Pirquet Gold Proof Coin (Click image to enlarge) Clemens von Pirquet was born in 1874 just outside Vienna. His father had been a member of the imperial parliament, [...]