Few US coins have had the long and interesting career of the silver dollar. Although plans for a US silver dollar began in 1776, it took the US almost twenty years to actually produce them, since the war-torn country could hardly afford to produce hard currency, an expensive undertaking. Since 1794, the silver dollar has [...]
Precious metals investment is among the most popular ways for people to put their money into a commodity among everyday working people. The main reason for this is that metals investment, compared to investing in mutual funds, stocks and bonds and other products, is very easy to understand. You own a certain quantity of something [...]
Investing in silver is a financial endeavor that has many benefits. In recent times, many career investing moguls have purchased massive quantities of this precious white metal. This is clear proof that silver is poised to increase in price and we should take advantage of this investing opportunity. Silver is so much more than just [...]
Most people would not see the correlation between coin collecting and studying the precious metal market. It just seems like they are two completely different and separate topics, but your average coin collector is actually going to be paying very close attention to the precious metals market. While it seems like they are not actually [...]
In 1999, the US Mint at West Point made a serious error. They printed several different types of bullion coins bearing a mintmark with the letter “W”. The “W” mintmark was supposed to appear only on the proof versions of 1999 gold eagles. Whether or not the Mint misprinted these on purpose or by accident [...]
Purchasing anything right now is obviously going to be difficult to justify given that all of the economic trouble is going to have a direct impact on the cost of living, making it much higher than it used to be. Not only is the cost of living increasing, but financial stability is going to be [...]
When you think of gold coins, you might find yourself daydreaming about shipwrecks full of sunken treasure, or you may wonder whether your uncle still has that little box full of twenty-dollar double eagles. Whatever the case may be, you are likely to get an excited feeling and wonder whether creating your own treasure collection [...]
The stock market continues to be up one day then down the next. There is still considerable speculation that Europe could dip back into recession. The Euro Zone debt crisis is still a real problem and has made investors edgy, and this has caused the unpredictable stock market. Yet, silver has remained very stable and [...]
Many of the most valuable coins in the world are gold coins. Of those, nearly all of them are considered rare. Coins with a high gold content are usually valuable based on their gold content alone, and when you add the rarity and supply and demand factors, that value continues to increase. This is why [...]
According to a recent article published in the Michigan newspaper The Grand Rapids Press, local coin collectors in this Michigan city earned impressive amounts of money when they sold silver coins. Reporter Ron Cammel explained that while most of the visitors to an International Coin Collectors Association appraisal session last week made less than $100 [...]