By Carl Wolf for the Chicago Coin Club…. The Chicago Coin Club’s 2015 Annual Banquet is Wednesday, December 9. This is just around the corner and we hope to see all our friends and fellow collectors. This is a wonderful event and it’s always good to see guests and spouses who we see only […] The post Chicago Coin Club 2015 Annual Banquet Dec. 9 appeared first on CoinWeek.
1836 C. GOBRECHT name below base, stars in obverse field, plain edge. Die alignment: eagles flies level, coin turn and eagle flies level medal turn. Judd-58 By Jeff Garrett for Numismatic Guaranty Corporation…. The Gobrecht Silver Dollar is a complicated yet fascinating series. At first glance many would think that the Gobrecht Silver Dollar series […] The post Gobrecht Silver Dollars – The Most Misunderstood Coin appeared first on CoinWeek.
By CoinWeek…. Harlan J. Berk is a Chicago-based family-owned rare coin business that specializes in ancient coins, antiquities, world coins, U.S. coins, and maps. Hear the Harlan J. Berk story on The Distance Podcast. For 10 years, Harlan J. Berk has been rewarding its most loyal customers with something all numismatists can appreciate… more money to […] The post Harlan J. Berk Celebrates 10 Years of Giving Back to Their Customers appeared first on CoinWeek.
JM Bullion published an infographic that looks at how silver and gold bullion premiums are calculated. It notes that investors can learn to take advantage of the lowest possible premiums if they understand how the system works. Click here to view the infographic online. Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist and JMBullion The post Infographic: Calculating Silver and Gold Bullion Premiums appeared first on Investing News Network.
Britain is continuing to debate its role and its participation within the European Union in preparation for a major vote on whether to leave the union altogether. There are indications that the referendum – known as Brexit – is likely to be held in 2016.Irish IndependentIt could be argued that Britain was always a reluctant participant in the European experiment fearing for their sovereignty and independence.As Margaret Thatcher warned back in 1988 “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level, with a European superstate exercising a [...]
‘Super Mario’, the European Central Bank’s monetary magician, disappointed markets yesterday as continuing and unprecedented monetary easing failed to prevent a sharp sell-off in stock and bond markets which has continued today. ECB President – nicknamed ‘Super Mario’There are sharp losses on financial markets after the ECBs President’s – nicknamed ‘Super Mario’ and more recently ‘Magic Mario’ – latest radical measures stopped well short of market expectations and traders desperation for more cheap money and deepening ultra loose monetary policies. Draghi announced a deepening of probably the most radical monetary policies of any major central bank in history. The ECB [...]
Editors Note: With the New York Times once again trying to convince us that the Gold Standard is a barbarous relic from the past (see below), we are happy to publish an interesting and informative piece by one of our contributors David Bryan.Gold is real independent money that can be explained in terms of physics and ensures the economic health of a nation. Counterparty liability money is a monetary ideology that empowers central bankers who issue currency that destroys the economic wealth of nations.Science invalidated belief five hundred years ago and proved the earth is round.Science has since advanced knowledge that [...]
Golden Arrow Resources Corp. (TSXV:GRG) announced results from the first eight holes of a phase V drill program at its Argentina-based Chinchillas silver project. As quoted in the press release: The drilling program is part of the Chinchillas Project pre-development activities, funded by Silver Standard, which are being undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of creating a combined mining business with Silver Standard’s Pirquitas mine, as announced October 1st, 2015. Selected highlights from these drill holes include: 66 m @ 278 g/t silver and 2.4% lead in CGA-184 including 10 m @ 1,069 g/t silver and 10.2% lead 26 m @ [...]
Houston Coin Club Hosts Final Major Show of the Year This week commences with the 59th Houston Money Show. Hosted by the Greater Houston Coin Club, it features over 250 dealer booths and multiple educational seminars, including ones for young collectors. The show opens to the public on Thursday, December 3rd and runs through Saturday. Alongside this show is an auction hosted by Heritage which features over 3,300 lots of U.S. coins. The sale is rich with half dollars in particular, with a solid selection of Liberty Seated halves. Indian head gold are the main big ticket items, with a [...]
Trevali Mining Corporation (TSX:TV) announced results of an additional ten drill holes from its 2015 exploration program designed to test the deeper levels, below the currently defined resources and mine plan, of the Magistral Central and South deposits at its Santander Zinc mine in Peru. As quoted in the press release: All ten drill holes intersected significant zinc-leadsilver mineralization with the majority returning zinc grades materially higher, ranging from approximately plus-25- to-150%, than those currently being exploited (Table 1). Borehole SAN-0215 intersected a new zone of thick semimassive to massive sulphide replacement mineralization in the footwall of Magistral Central zone which [...]