Commentary & Opinion: Numismatic Dealers – How Many Are Really Professionals?
The following commentary was submitted by Martin Kaplan.
Martin has been a collector for over 50 years, and his current interests are world coins, world...
Where have all the good coins gone?
By Vic Bozarth - Rare Coin Market Report
Dear Rare Coin Enthusiast, I am writing this morning from the Long Beach Coin Show. It...
The Upcoming ANA Coin Show And Bourse Etiquette
By Richard Schwary - California Numismatic Investments
I just finished with the June 2011 copy of The Numismatist, which is the 120th Anniversary Convention Issue,...
A 30-Year Evolution of the Coin Market, and a Look Forward
By John Feigenbaum - David Lawrence Rare Coins :
In March of this year I will turn 42 years old and it occurs to me...
Ancient Coins: Affirmation of Audacity
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Blog .....
During the period from July 2004 through August 2007 the numismatic community, by way of the Ancient...
Sometimes when we’re wrong it’s a good thing
By William Shamhart - Numismatic Americana
When Christine and I talked about the ANA’s spring show in Sacramento, we didn’t really expect much. ...
Rare Coin Road Warrior
Coin Show Reports by Viv Bozarth - Bozarth Numismatics
Dear Rare Coin Enthusiast,
My name is Vic Bozarth and I am the Rare Coin Road Warrior....
Coin Doctoring Presents A Moral Imperative to the Coin Industry
Richard Schwary - California Numismatic Investments
It would be a great deal more fun to consider what R.W. Julian has to say about Gobrecht dollars...
The Great Coin Drought
By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com
There’s an ebb and flow to the coin market cycle. When it is in perfect, Zen-like harmony, the market works...
What would happen if the United States lost its AAA credit...
by Adam Crum - Monaco Rare Coins
Two years ago‚ a company that performs financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and has...
Laura Sperber Hot Topics: COIN DOCTORING IS NOW ALLOWED!
First, I want to clearly state: I fully support the Board of Directors of the PNG in its fight. Since the meeting I had attended last year, they have tried to diligently work on the subject of coin doctoring. Granted, nothing has happened from their efforts, but I did not know it was the MEMBERSHIP that was blocking action.
The Whole Cultural Record
By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting .....
In the latest issue of Archaeology magazine (Nov-Dec 2010), AIA President Brian Rose proposes an intriguing professional...
Coin Market: Generics slow to match gains of gold, silver
By Steve Roach - Rare Coin Market Report
First published in the November 8, 2010, issue of Coin World
Some of the coins that one would...
Gold Dominates Coin Market as Records Fall
By Steve Roach
First published in the Nov. 1, 2010, issue of Coin World
Gold is currently the engine that is driving the rare coin market.
It...
Ancient Coins: The Yin and Yang – A Smorgasbord of Views...
By Wayne Sayles .....
This week I was treated to a smorgasbord of views on cultural property from members of the archaeological and collecting communities.
On...
Wall Street Journal video: “Gold will probably approach $5,000,” Guggenheim Partners...
"People have lost faith in paper money" as the Fed debases the dollar. Gold at $1,387 over 2 record days
After settling above a record...
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: Collecting Modern Coins
News and Analysis on coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #24
A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
The purpose this week is to put...
Coin Rarities & Related Topics: Coins Minted After 1934 tend to...
News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community, #23-Part2
A continuation of a Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds
Usually, this column...
US Coins: Those Magical CC Morgans
The market is good – stable prices and strong demand for rarities along with an expanding collector base. In fact, an 1804 Class 1 Draped Bust Dollar just traded for $3.7 million at the Central States Numismatic Society coin convention in Rosemont, IL.