Grab Your Magnifying Glasses and er.. a few words to learn...
Things to remember before we start:
Bullion coin- a coin that is worth its precious metal weight.
Obverse- heads side.
Proof- refers to the process of refining which, first, manually involves putting burnished coin blanks into presses equipped with special dies. Each coin is stamped several times which makes the softly frosted and finely detailed images give the illusion of floating above the field.
Reverse- tails side.
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Daring theft, hobnobbing with Egyptian royalty, anonymous millionaire bidders, legal wranglings, unauthorized "replicas"... such is the colorful history of the 1933 Double Eagle. Source: Wikipedia
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- The Sacagawea Golden Dollar
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- The Presidential $1 Coins
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- Minting Problems
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- The First Spouse Gold Coins
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- American Eagle Bullion Coins for Investors
- Dollar Coins on Flickr
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- American Eagle Proof and Uncirculated Coins for Collectors
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- New American Buffalo 24-Karat Gold Coins
- My other lenses on coin collecting
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- United States Mint American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coins
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The Sacagawea Golden Dollar
With the aim of complementing the obverse, the selected reverse design features a soaring eagle encircled by 17 stars. The 17 stars symbolize each Union state members during the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Those Amazing Coins: A kids guide to coin collecting
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Presidential Dollar Commemorative Folder: Complete Philadelphia and Denver Mint Collection (Official Whitman Coin Folder)
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The Presidential $1 Coins
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Some John Adams Presidential Dollars have also been reported as having plain edges. Since these are lesser in quantity than the George Washington plain edge dollars, these are rarer, and more expensive.
Another discrepancy that resulted in variations in selling prices is about words on the rim struck upside down (with the portrait facing up). While these have been explained as variation created by the minting process, so called "upside-down" dollars sell on auction websites much more than their face value.
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In the event of a President serving without a First Spouse, such as Thomas Jefferson, a gold coin will bear instead an obverse image showing Liberty as depicted on a circulating coin for that era, and bearing a reverse image with symbols of themes associated with that President.
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The American Eagle Bullion coins were offered to the public in 1986; at that time, only gold and silver coins were available. Platinum became part of the American Eagle Bullion family in 1997. For the past twenty years, gold, platinum and silver American Eagles have established a reputation as leading bullion coin investment products. Unlike commemorative or numismatic coins worth according to limitations of mintage, rarity, appearance and age, bullion coins were made with investment portfolios in mind. American Eagle Gold and Platinum Bullion Coins can be purchased in four denominations: one ounce, one-half ounce, one-quarter ounce, and one-tenth ounce. The Silver Bullion Coin can be acquired in the one ounce size.
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In 2006, the United States Mint came up with a new American Eagle coin, the American Eagle Uncirculated Coins in silver, gold and platinum.
The American Eagle Silver Uncirculated Coin is available in a one-ounce size, while the American Eagle Uncirculated Coins in both gold and platinum are available in one-tenth, one-quarter, one-half and one ounce sizes, as well as a complete four-coin set containing one coin of each size. The American Eagle Platinum Uncirculated Coins bear the same reverse design as the American Eagle Platinum Proof Coins.
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The new American Buffalo Gold coin's obverse and reverse designs were sculpted by American artist James Earle Fraser originally for the 5-cent coin (nickel).
That coin which came to be known as the Indian Head, or Buffalo, nickel was released in 1913 and displays the native beauty of the American West.
Some mystery surrounds the Native American depiction on the coins obverse. For starters, at least three different American Indians are believed to have modeled for the portrait. Two of the American Indians were named by the designer himself: Chief Iron Tail of the Lakota Sioux and Chief Two Moons of the Cheyenne. Unfortuntely, Fraser could not recall the third Indian, and any documentation at hand has not been able to help identify that individual. The coin's bison on the reverse side is held to be Black Diamond, a popular installation at the New York Zoological Gardens.
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- Why collect coins anyway? Well, coins have a lot of cutural and historical facts to share; sometimes the coin's design, or mint mark, is key to many an interesting mystery. Coins are also collected because, over time, some will actually appreciate in value.
- Investing in Antique Nickels
- Composition: Cupro-Nickel: 25% Ni, Balance Cu Actual Value of Metal Content: 9.7 cents Weight: 5.000 g Diameter: 0.835 in., 21.21 mm Thickness: 1.95 mm Edge: Plain "Awww! Numatists' Points: 101%
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United States Mint American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coins
American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coins can be acquired at many coin and precious metals dealers. Pricing for these precious metal investment coins will be subject accordingly to the market price of the metal.
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