Commentary

By Patrick A Heller - Liberty Coin Service The decision to own gold or silver usually involves more than making a decision to diversify an...

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...

By Vic Bozarth - Rare Coin Market Report Dear Rare Coin Enthusiast, I am writing this morning from the Long Beach Coin Show. It...

By Richard Schwary - California Numismatic Investments I just finished with the June 2011 copy of The Numismatist, which is the 120th Anniversary Convention Issue,...

By John Feigenbaum - David Lawrence Rare Coins : In March of this year I will turn 42 years old and it occurs to me...

By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Blog During the period from July 2004 through August 2007 the numismatic community, by way of the Ancient...

By William Shamhart - Numismatic Americana When Christine and I talked about the ANA’s spring show in Sacramento, we didn’t really expect much. ...

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....

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...

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...

by Adam Crum - Monaco Rare Coins Two years ago‚ a company that performs financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and has...

By Richard Schwary - California Numismatic Investments Not too long ago I got an interesting Email: “I’m new to rare coins and I would...

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.

By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting In the latest issue of Archaeology magazine (Nov-Dec 2010) AIA President Brian Rose proposes an intriguing professional goal,...

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...

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...

This week I was treated to a smorgasbord of views on cultural property from members of the archaeological and collecting communities. On Tuesday morning, I...

"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...

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...

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...

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.