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We’re back with one final coin collecting news round up for the week! To begin, the designs for next year’s First Spouse Gold Coins are unveiled by the United States Mint. Also, the 2010 Silver Eagle, US Mint sales report, Coin of the Year award winners, 2009 fractional Gold Eagle mintages, an explanation from the Royal Canadian Mint, gold investment returns, double denomination mule error coin, collecting Standing Liberty Quarters, and notable auctions. On to the links…
The US Mint has unveiled the designs for the 2010 First Spouse Gold Coins. The two coins already capturing the most attention are the James Buchanan’s Liberty Gold Coin, which reproduces Christian Gobrecht’s design for the Liberty Head Quarter Eagle, and the Mary Todd Lincoln First Spouse Gold Coin.
Although delayed, the 2010 Silver Eagle will be released next month. Typically, the US Mint produces coins bearing the following year’s date late in the preceding year, but this year production was pushed forward into 2010.
More from Coin Update News
US Mint Sales Report: Low Mintage Coins in Focus
2009 Lincoln Cent Proof Set Sold Out
Numismaster announces the 2008-dated coins that have received Coin of the Year Awards. The United States was the winner in the “Most Popular” category for the American Silver Eagle. Awards will be presented at the World Money Fair in Berlin.
The US Mint sold a large amount of 2009 Fractional Gold Eagles, despite the fact that the coins were only available to authorized purchasers for a handful of days in December.
Buzz has it that the 2009-P Lincoln Cent “Presidency” design is a tough find.
After earlier announcing that theft was not behind the missing gold at the Royal Canadian Mint, the Mint recently issued an explanation of how it lost track of the gold.
An article from Bloomberg, which briefly recaps the performance of different asset classes during the decade. A $100 investment in gold at the start of the decade would now be worth more than $380 today.
A look at a Gold Party, where guests bring unwanted gold to sell to the host. The article includes this cringe-worthy quote from one of the attendees talking about a gold coin: “I thought ‘What am I going to do with this?’ I almost threw it out.”
Coinlink shows us a remarkable double denomination mule. A 1993-D Lincoln Cent obverse is paired with a Roosevelt Dime reverse.
A great article on Numismaster on the Standing Liberty Quarter design and collecting the series.
And now for some notable auctions. First, a collection of 16 different Proof Silver Eagles with dates from 1988 to 2006. Every one of the coins is graded PCGS PR70DCAM.
The 1955 Double Die Lincoln Cent PCGS AU55. The auction listing includes some great closer up pictures of the doubling.
Last, another classic. The 1937-D three Legged Buffalo Nickel. This example is graded NGC MS61 and listed with no reserve.
On a final note, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all Coin Update readers! Thank you for your readership throughout the year!
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They refer to James Buchanan as having the last Liberty design on a first spouse coin……didn’t Chester Arthur’s wife pass before his election as Vice President? This would seem to be similar to Jackson’s situation.
Although Chester A. Arthur served without a spouse, the design for this coin will bear the name and likeness of Alice Paul rather than a “Liberty” design. This was specifically provided in the authorizing legislation:
‘‘(II) as represented, in the case of President Chester Alan Arthur, by a design incorporating the name and likeness of Alice Paul, a leading strategist in the suffrage movement, who was instrumental in gaining women the right to vote upon the adoption of the 19th amendment and thus the ability to participate in the election of future Presidents, and who was born on January 11, 1885, during the term of President Arthur;
and
‘‘(ii) the reverse of such bullion coin shall be of
a design representative of themes of such President,
except that in the case of the bullion coin referred
to in clause (i)(II) the reverse of such coin shall be
representative of the suffrage movement.