Ancient Coins: The Beginning of Coinage
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection ……… The Beginning of Coinage Shown with expressive and diverse imagery today, coinage started from very humble beginnings. The...
View ArticleCool Coins! ANA World’s Fair of Money, Chicago, Illinois, August 2014. VIDEO:...
David Lisot, CoinWeek.com……. If you like seeing great coins this episode of Cool Coins is for you. We show rarities from the past as well as collectibles of the future. Plus you hear from all ages of...
View ArticleAncient Coins : The First Circulating Gold Coinage & The Stag of Artemis
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection ……… The First Circulating Coinage Little is known about this mysterious archaic electrum coinage. It was minted in Ionia,...
View ArticleNewest Austrian Mint Wildlife Coin Unveiled: The Wild Boar
The Second Austrian Mint Wildlife in Our Sights Coin design has been revealed… Chubby with a knowing grin, the Wild Boar looks out at you from its golden background on the second gold coin in the...
View ArticleAncient Coins : The First Official Coin
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection …… The First Official Coin Natural resources are often a source of great wealth for a country, especially its king. The...
View ArticleFirst Read: 100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins, Third Edition
First Read, a CoinWeek continuing series of essays about classic and contemporary works of numismatic literature… Essay by Louis Golino for CoinWeek…. 100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins, Third Edition by...
View ArticleTuvalu and the Perth Mint: World Coins from an Island Nation
by Ron Drzewucki – Modern Coin Wholesale At first glance, it seems strange that a country like Tuvalu issues world-class commemorative and bullion coins. The big names (China, Canada, the United...
View ArticleThe Coin Analyst: U.S. Mint News Update for October
By Louis Golino for CoinWeek… U.S. Mint News in October: A busy month… Silver Eagle rationing? Last week the U.S. Mint sold 2.742 million American silver eagles to its network of Authorized Purchasers,...
View ArticleAncient Coins: Strength and Unity of an Empire
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection …… The ancient Greek island of Lesbos was located in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the coast of modern-day Turkey. Its...
View ArticleAncient Coins: The Most Famous Coin of Antiquity
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection …… Athens was a great military power in ancient Greece and is considered the birthplace of Western civilization and democracy....
View ArticleAncient Coins : Zeus, the King of the Gods
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection …… Depending on who was in control at the time, the electrum coinage of Phokaia and Mytilene in Ionia was struck as payment to...
View ArticlePrecious Metals Analysis : 5 Articles on China Buying over 2000 Tons of Gold
How Much Gold Does the People’s Bank of China Have? One of the most fascinating developments in the gold market since the turn of the century is China’s burgeoning role as a leader in the sector. The...
View ArticleThe Magnificent Ancients of the Nelson Bunker Hunt Coin Collection
Ancient Coin Series: Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek…. Fitzgerald: The rich are different than you and me. Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.[1] In the arcane language of Classical Numismatics, when...
View ArticleMetal Monsters: The Biggest Ancient Coins
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series By Mike Markowitz…. In 2007, Canada captured a world record by producing five examples of a 100 kilogram gold piece (220.5 pounds, or a bit over 3215 troy ounces). It was...
View ArticleAncient Coins: The Sacred Stone of Kaunos
By Russell A. Augustin, AU Capital Management, LLC The Colosseo Collection …… Kaunos was a prominent trading center in Asia Minor alongside Lycia and Caria. It was mentioned by ancient authors...
View ArticleThe Coin Analyst: Interview with Steve Estes, an Oregon Dealer Retiring After...
By Louis Golino for CoinWeek…. Steves Estes is a Portland, Oregon dealer who has run a mail order business for over 50 years. He specializes in classic U.S. coins, both graded and raw, and probably...
View ArticleInfoGraphic on the Swiss Gold Referendum to take place on November 30th
Presented by: Gainesville Coins ……. On November 30, Swiss nationals head to the polls on three separate issues: abolishing a flat tax on resident, non-working foreigners, an immigration cap, and a...
View ArticleOffbeat Numismatics: The Leper Colony Coins of Colombia
by Crystal Gomez, content writer at Gainesville Coins Between 1900 and 1930, Colombia made special coins for leprosy colonies. In this epoch, leprosy cases had reached an all time high. While...
View ArticleHarlan J. Berk Ltd to Present Gemini XII Ancient and World Coin Auction...
Harlan J. Berk Ltd. is proud to present Gemini XII which will take place on Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 3:20 p.m. in the Norse Suite at the Waldorf Astoria in association with the 43rd annual New York...
View ArticlePrecious Metals Weekly Market Update
Courtesy of Everett Millman and GainesvilleCoins.com ………. While stocks were riding high yet again this week in response to a decidedly mixed bag of economic indicators for November, gold and silver...
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