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Welcome to your daily edition of Coin Update!
After a few quiet weeks, precious metals seem to be on the upswing again on a combination of higher oil and a lower dollar. Also, gold for your IRA, eBay’s result and more upcoming changes, Coin of the Day, CCAC reviewing coins for 2009 programs, 1932-D [...]

Welcome to Coin Update!
The recent price of gold and an important upcoming meeting. Also, a WSJ story about eBay, the end of Live Auctions, feedback on counterfeit slabs, and off beat coin related tale, CoinStar and the environment, Barber Halves, and notable auctions. On to the links…

After a flat week gold has started to creep [...]

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Happy Tax Return Due Date! To start things off, more discussion on the pricing for the First Spouse Gold Coins as the sixth coin is readied for release. Also, a young coin collector makes his start, the rarity scale, eBay’s BestMatch, a new design for PCGS, and a very notable [...]

Welcome to your Monday edition of Coin Update!
Gold and silver spent the last week quietly consolidating, but some are calling for a short term price decline. Also results from a Harris Poll on dollar coins and pennies with some interesting details, the coin collecting boom in India, an incredible circulation find, auctions from the [...]

It’s time for another edition of Coin Update!
Today is a quiet Friday, but there are some interesting stories to note. While gold seems to be entering a quiet period, an article providing some supporting reasons for gains ahead. Also, coin cleaning, US Mint vs. Royal British Mint, 10th Anniversary Platinum Eagle Set returns, [...]

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We’re back for your daily round up of coin related news from around the internet. China and gold will start things off. Also, the shortage of American Silver Eagles, a medal for Edgar Allan Poe, a new offering from the US Mint, the US economy and coin collecting, and [...]

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It’s a relatively quiet hump day, but let’s take a look at some of the coin news from around the internet. First, a reaction to the IMF gold sale news. Also, more on the recent discovery of a hoard of Viking coins in Sweden, 2008 Sacagawea Dollars are coming, PCGS [...]

Welcome to Coin Update!
Once again, we will present a round up of the most important and interesting coin related news from around the internet. First up, a few articles on gold. Also, proposed palladium Saint Gaudens coins, New Mexico Quarter launch, Britannia’s return, the Large Cent, the 1943 Copper Lincoln Cent, DGS launches, [...]

Welcome to your Monday and weekend wrap up edition of Coin Update!
There’s another side to the story of all of the gold jewelry being turned in for melt. Also, a different kind of economic indicator, Viking-era Arab coins discovered in Sweden, CAC membership application deadline, fingerprints, Craigslist, the Morgan Dollar series, and notable auctions. [...]

Welcome to your Friday edition of Coin Update!
Does gold have some more room left to run? Also, a design blog chimes in on the new British coins, a possible Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin, a story on N.F. String & Son, more on eliminating the Canadian penny, eBay’s stock gets upgraded, coins in the attic, and [...]