A funny thing happens to gold and silver most Decembers. Prices tend to go down and this December may be the best time buy gold and silver since last summer. Prices for both metals have been on a slight downward trend, from a high of $1549 on September 3 for gold to $1460 as this article is being wr...
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Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Banknote - AA 2008 PCGS Graded By 2009, Zimbabwe’s currency (called the Zimbabwe dollar) was worthless. Inflation had reached nearly 500 billion percent, and the country looked for a solution. That led to the adoption of a “basket of currencies” that included the South African ...
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The latest in the U.S. Mint’s Silver Eagle proof coin series is available to order. This one-ounce 99.9% pure silver coin is the latest silver coin in a series dating back to 1986, when Congress authorized their production. Mint, Design and Delivery Unlike bullion coins that carry no mint mark, the...
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On March 28, 2017, the Royal Mint of England released a new 12-sided one-pound (£1) coin to replace the pound coin that has been in circulation since 1983. That coin was introduced to replace the one-pound banknote, which had proven to have a very short (9 month) life. Arguing that the short-lived n...
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1909 P Indian Head Cent in Circulated Condition, designed by James B. Longacre. In 1806, twelve-year-old James Barton Longacre left the family farm in Delaware County, Pennsylvania to escape from a stepmother he couldn’t tolerate. Arriving in Philadelphia, he apprenticed for a bookseller who appreci...
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90% Silver George Washington Carver Commemorative Half Dollar (1951-54) in circulated condition The next-to-last of what are known as the Early Commemoratives, the Booker T. Washington silver half dollar was produced from 1946 to 1951. Along with the Iowa Centennial half dollar, it was the first pos...
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“It is by all odds the best design on any American coin." High praise indeed, considering it came from Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the man who is generally regarded as having designed the most beautiful U.S. coin ever made - the American Double Eagle $20 gold coin. Saint-Gaudens was referring to the wor...
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90% Silver George Washington Carver Commemorative Half Dollar (1951-54) in circulated condition The U.S. Mint has produced a number of coins to commemorate various persons, events, and institutions. While these coins are legal tender, most are intended for collectors rather than general circulation....
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While a female designer’s work would not appear on a circulating U.S. coin until Glenna Goodacre’s Sacagawea Dollar was issued in 2000, when Congress authorized minting of bullion coins in 1985, the Treasury chose sculptor Miley Busiek’s Family of Eagles design for its reverse. U.S. Gold Coin Produc...
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