SPECIAL ISSUES
Gold & Silver: Investor’s Guide
This special issue of COINage provides expert opinions on the gold and silver bullion markets and takes an in-depth look at how past policies still affect the present. Information about early U.S. gold coinage and a variety of Saint-Gaudens’ coins will also satisfy collectors.
COINage takes an in-depth look at bull markets past and present; how coin melts affect market value; and gold dollars: small coins with enormous value.
Now in its 48th edition, the COINage Collector’s Yearbook is regarded by many as a top source for hobbyists and prized as a reference guide all year long.
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Coinage Kids: Golden Girls
Match the reverse of each first spouse gold coin to the correct description of the first lady who appears on it. Then mail your completed quiz to March Quiz, COINage magazine, P.O. Box 7030, Ventura, CA 93006-9899.
My Two Cents’ Worth: The Other Big Change of 1965
For coin collectors, 1964 was a year of momentous events. The Kennedy half dollar made a dramatic debut. Proof set production surged to nearly 4 million. Read the rest of Senior Editor Ed Reiter’s column here.
Polar Bears from the Austrian Mint
Polar Bears at the Schoenbrunn Zoo New 5-euro Commemorative Coin The Austrian Mint will issue a coin to celebrate the new polar bear enclosure at Schoenbrunn Zoo, scheduled to open this May. The delightful reverse was designed and engraved by the Mint’s Chief engraver, Thomas Pesendorfer. The foreground of the design shows a mother polar […]
Rare Islamic Coin Offered for Auction
MORTON & EDEN BRING RARE ISLAMIC COIN TO AUCTION FOR FIRST TIME 91h dinar from Caliph’s ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ expected to sell for £300,000-400,000 in April 10 London sale Morton & Eden, the specialist auctioneers of coins in London today announced the forthcoming sale of an extremely rare Islamic gold coin […]
Coin Collecting’s Sweet Spot
by Amy Drew Thompson Cacao might not have been the world’s earliest form of currency, but it remains, arguably, the tastiest. Read the entire story here.
My Two Cents’ Worth: Many Happy Returns
Coins are good investments. Most of us accept that statement almost as a tenet of faith—even when we try to convince ourselves that we seek and save these shiny handheld objects primarily for pleasure and satisfaction. Read the rest of Senior Editor Ed Reiter’s column here.
February’s Coinage Kids
Braille Coins Braille would be 205 now, and while he would be proud of his invention, he would probably be a little embarrassed by all the fuss. Other countries have issued their own Braille coins, too. Mail your completed quiz to February Quiz, COINage magazine, P.O. Box 7030, Ventura, CA 93006-9899. Five winners will be drawn […]
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Looking for a Change of Scenery?
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Live and Work in Southern California Stack’s Bowers Galleries offers an important employment opportunity for the right person. They are seeking an experienced numismatist in the American series—coins, tokens, medals, and paper money—to work with their “dream team” of catalogers, building on the tradition of the Ford, Eliasberg, Bass, Cardinal, Norweb, Battle […]
