Top 10 Most Important Grading Tips : Numismatic Articles
By Scott Travers - With the advent of independent third-party certification, many coin buyers and sellers thought all their grading worries were over. No longer would they have to scrutinize each coin they bought and sold to determine its level of preservation. No longer would they need to concern themselves with grading pointers, grading tips, grading advice-these mattered now only to the experts at the leading certification services.
Is The Deep Financial Crisis Overwhelming Gold Price Manipulation? : Coin Collecting News
By Patrick Heller, Market Update for Numismaster Ben Bernanke- Federal Reserve ChairmanThere has been a constant stream of terrible financial news over the past nine months. This news makes investors leery of owing US dollars or dollar-denominated paper assets like stocks or bonds. When investors try to protect themselves by switching to other assets or currencies, the result is a decline in the values of the dollar and American stocks and bonds.
Coin dealers examining gold find from Louisiana coast : Coin Collecting News
By ALAN SAYRE - AP The SS New York, image courtesy of The Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia.A steamship that sank off the Louisiana coast during an 1846 storm has produced a trove of rare gold coins, including some produced at two, mostly forgotten U.S. mints in the South, coin experts say. Last year, four Louisiana residents salvaged hundreds of gold coins and thousands of silver coins from the wreckage of the SS New York in about 60 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico, said David Bowers, co-chairman of Stack's Rare Coins in New York.
Coin Grading, My Gold Party, John Qunicy Adams Dollar | Coin Update
Host a party, buy your friends' gold. Also, treasure in the news, pictures of money, a questionable quote by the US Mint Director, Britain's new coin design, Proof Gold Eagle mintages, coin grading tips, ITCA, ...
Austrian Mint Issues 5 Euro Silver Coin Honoring Great Conductor : Coin Collecting News
This year Herbert von Karajan would have celebrated his 100th birthday. He was born on 5th April, 1908, in the city of Salzburg. To commemorate this great Austrian conductor the Austrian Mint in Vienna is issuing a 5 Euro silver coin on 7th May, 2008. On the occasion of his death in 1989 the New York Times characterised Karajan as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music."
ICTA Helps Thwart Proposal for CFTC Regulation of Coin Dealers - Coin News
ICTA recently helped defeat an 11th hour proposal that would have put precious metals dealers under the jurisdiction of the CFTC which may also have led to federal licensing and further regulation of the industry.
In late April, during Senate consideration of the 2008 farm bill (HR 2419), a section was added to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and amend the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).
