It’s News To Me: The Last Jedi vs. The Last Collector
By Donn Pearlman
How can the hobby attract new collectors as well as revive strong numismatic desire in the hearts and minds of millions of former collectors? The aging demographic of our hobby has been...
Secrets for Getting the Best Deals Online
By Barry Stuppler
No matter where you live or what time it is, eBay® enables you to bid on or buy precious metals and rare coins. It has never been easier for millions of precious metal investors...
Secrets of the Number One Online Coin Company
By Eric Bradley, Michael Weems, and Brian Shipman
When Steve Ivy looks back at 50 years of selling $10 billion worth of high-end art and collectibles, he doesn’t see dollar signs. He sees faces–the faces of his partners and the faces of...
John Feigenbaum: The Bill Gates of Coins
By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez
There are stunning similarities between computer-software-for-the-world developer Bill Gates and computer-software-for-the-numismatic-world developer John Feigenbaum. Gates pioneered computer technology in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the launch of the first commercially...
PCGS Partners with Research Foundation
The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to promote a special donation program called “Submissions for a Cure.” For a limited time, PCGS is offering a...
Finding Fakes: NGC Expands Online Resource
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has expanded its online Counterfeit Detection resource to include detailed descriptions of world coins most commonly targeted by counterfeiters.
The Russia 1897AT 15 Roubles is first on the list. Even with...
It’s News To Me: A Nickel for Your Thoughts
Every year at this time, I think about a 2003 publicity stunt that was only supposed to promote awareness of a coin show but surprisingly solved a 41-year-old numismatic mystery: the whereabouts of the...
Market Report: Gold Glitters in 2018’s First Quarter
By Mike Fuljenz
Gold closed the first quarter of 2018 up 2.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrials fell 2.5%, giving gold a 4.8% advantage over the Dow index and a 3.4% advantage over the S&P...
Dr. Donald Kagin’s 10 Favorite Gold Coins
By Donald H. Kagin, Ph.D.
Over my 60 years of collecting, cataloging and dealing in numismatics, I have been blessed with handling so many great coins that it’s hard to narrow my favorites down to just 10 of them,...