In its first six days of sales, the Mint sold 11,391 El Yunque quarters sets. That exceeded the start of the previous issue in the three-coin set series, which was the Chickasaw set that started with 10,483 in December. Read the entire story here.

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To mark the Andrew Johnson $1 coin’s release, the bureau will hold a ceremonial launch and coin exchange on the same day, at the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville, Tennessee.

The coin was designed entirely by United States Mint Artistic Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart. The obverse includes the inscriptions ANDREW JOHNSON, IN GOD WE TRUST, 17TH PRESIDENT and 1865-1869.

The coin’s reverse bears a rendition of the Statue of Liberty and the inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  The year of minting or issuance, 2011, E PLURIBUS UNUM and the mint of origin are incused on the coin’s edge.

Presidential $1 Coins are produced for use in everyday cash transactions.  The coins last for decades, are 100 percent recyclable and can save the country hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The Presidential $1 Coins will be shipped to banks and other financial institutions in rolls, unmixed with other $1 coins.  For each new design, banks may order and store the coins up to three weeks prior to the introduction so they will have supplies on hand on the release date.  The coins will be available in unmixed rolls for two weeks after the introduction of each design.  The special ordering process begins again when each new Presidential $1 Coin is released.

The ordering period for unmixed quantities of the Andrew Johnson Presidential $1 Coin began January 27.  To order boxes of wrapped rolls ($1,000 minimum order) of the Andrew Johnson Presidential $1 Coin, depository institutions can use FedLine Web® Access Solution.

In addition, local Federal Reserve Bank offices can handle special requests for $2,000 bags of unmixed Andrew Johnson Presidential $1 Coins, orders for $2,000 bags of mixed $1 coins and orders for Andrew Johnson Presidential $1 Coins after the special order period ends on March 3 (while supplies last).

Presidential $1 Coins can also be collected.  They are educational and fun with four new designs, each featuring an American President, issued each year.  The Andrew Johnson Presidential $1 Coin will be featured in collectible products available for purchase through the United States Mint’s Web site at http://www.usmint.gov/catalog or by calling 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468).

The 2011 Scheduled Products Listing is also available online at http://usmint.gov/catalog. The list will be updated as products are added and/or on-sale dates change. Customers are encouraged to visit the site regularly for the most current information.

The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for these products at noon Eastern Time (ET) on the specified on-sale dates. Orders will be accepted at http://www.usmint.gov/catalog and at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment may order by calling 1-888-321-MINT (6468). A shipping and handling fee of $4.95 will be added to all domestic orders.

[Franklin Center, New York] The Franklin Mint unveiled a rare and unprecedented work of artistry–The Taj Mahal Gold Coin–at its new Manhattan showroom (8 West 40th Street, 14th Fl.).

Minted and designed by the Monnaie de Paris, only 29 of these coins will ever be produced. The Taj Mahal Gold Coin is the most valuable French piece ever released and is the world’s first coin to include 68 hand-set Cartier diamonds.

“For any collector or investor looking to buy gold, The Taj Mahal Gold Coin offers a unique opportunity to buy a piece of history,” said Walter J. Kole, chief numismatist for The Franklin Mint.

“Gold has appreciated in value at a historic rate over the past few years, and diamonds always seem to retain their value. This masterwork represents a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for art, coin and other collectors, made possible by The Franklin Mint exclusively in the United States.”

The Taj Mahal Coin is valued at $160,000 and is being offered exclusively in the United States by The Franklin Mint.

“Coin collectors wait for items like The Taj Mahal Gold Coin to come on the market with great anticipation. A gold coin of this weight, inlaid with Cartier diamonds is a rarity that many collectors have never seen,” added Kole. “Given that only 29 of these coins will ever be produced, we anticipate a complete sell-out of the edition in a short period of time.”

This magnificent coin is housed inside a custom leather display handcrafted by the makers of the finest luggage in the world, Goyard.

For more information please visit: www.FranklinMint.com/TajGold.

Monnaie de Paris is one of the oldest institutions in France. Its origin can be traced back to the edict of currency by the Emperor Charles le Chauve on June 24 of the year 864. Its facility, located in the West of France since 1973, strikes the circulating coins for all of France, as well as other countries.

The Monnaie de Paris is a member of the prestigious Comité Colbert, an association with current membership totaling 75 luxury French companies.

In a video, courtesy Telegraph.co.uk, Matt Hunt from the Royal Mint London 2012 Team, unveils the new coins. He describes how the coins were designed by the public and discusses the mint’s expectations to release about 87 million of them into circulation.

The products being made available in January will include the 2011 United States Mint Uncirculated Set; 2011 United States Mint Proof Set; and 2011 United States Mint Silver Proof Set.

“We’ve listened to our customers and their desire to have these annual sets earlier in the year,” said Ed Moy, Director of the United States Mint. “Making our annual core products available at one time, and early in the year, provides our customers the opportunity to purchase them for their collections and for gift-giving throughout the year. It’s also a demonstration of our commitment to them.”

The United States Mint also said that it will announce later this fall the schedule of all of its products that will be released in the first quarter of 2011.

Penny Revolution™ Inc., based in San Luis Obispo, CA, is a green packaging startup that manufactures patented, reusable coin banks called Toggle Tubes®. Made to precise specifications, the self-counting Toggle Tubes capture loose change in standard roll sizes, requiring no tedious hand counting. Users simply fill the tube and snap the ends closed, and the change is counted. This clever packaging is made with a minimum of 30% curbside-recycled milk jugs. Each tube can be used hundreds of times.

 The Toggle Tubes® are designed for anyone interested in “eco-friendly penny pinching” explains Penny Revolution CEO, Fred Abler. Abler is excited about his reusable product because it could solve a big problem: “Toggle Tubes® are a revolutionary strategy for dealing with the U.S. Mint’s current manufacturing losses.

“Attracting coins out of dead storage in household dresser drawers and milk jugs into regular circulation will significantly reduce the number of coins the Mint must produce, a matter of growing importance because it costs the Mint 1.7 cents to make a ‘penny’ and between 6.0 to 9.7 cents to make a nickel. Pennies and nickels are the majority occupants of coin household coin hoards. They are hoarded not because people value them but because they are a nuisance to assemble and redeem.

 “Our goal is simply to make better use of an existing resource,” explains Abler. “Why should the U.S. Mint continue the money-losing strategy of making replacement coins, when it would be so much easier just to reuse the billions of coins that already exist?”

 The name “Penny Revolution” was chosen in part to underscore the need for just this kind of “common cents” revolution in civic thinking.

 The average U.S. household now has more than $90 dollars in small change just sitting around. Using 2007 government census data, the total value of this sequestered small change is reliably calculated at $10,004,603,310 dollars U.S.

 “We like to call this $10,000,000,000 dollars, our Penny Revolution™ Economic  Stimulus Plan,” Abler says with a smile.

 People don’t think of coins as a resource that needs to be recycled, but Penny Revolution is intent on changing that mindset. The company is currently selling its clever recycled/reusable coin banks to corporate sponsors and government agencies that want to green up their act, and is currently doing co-promotions with a major bank and California State Recycling Agency – CalRecycles.org. The tubes can be imprinted with a sponsor’s recycling message or corporate logo on one side.

Toggle Tubes® will also be featured on SHFT.com, a collaboration of Stonyfield Farm’s founder Gary Hirschberg and actor and eco-celebrity Adrian Grenier. “We are very pleased to be in such good company”, says Abler, who considers both Grenier and Stonyfield Farm examples of platinum standards for personal and corporate environmental responsibility.

Abler sees small companies like his as a major force for continued economic recovery. Small businesses are the best engine for job creation, but equally vital is revolutionary, independent thinking. “Entrepreneurs have a major role to play in helping the government implement promising innovations. It’s much more cost effective for the government to buy our reusable coin wrappers and distribute them freely than it is to replace small change”, explains Abler. A single Toggle Tube® costs approximately 6 nickels, but will bring 40 nickels back into active circulation with its first use. Toggle Tubes® can be reused hundreds of times, so every additional use is free.

 For more information, please visit Penny Revolution™ at www.pennyrevolution.com
Tel:   (805) 703-3614