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6 09, 2018

CAC Coins Bring Premiums in August

By |2018-09-06T22:14:22+00:00September 6th, 2018|Coin Shop Blog|Comments Off on CAC Coins Bring Premiums in August

CAC-approved coins outperformed other certified coins in the Heritage Auctions and Stack's Bowers events at the American Numismatic Association (ANA) World's Fair of Money show in Philadelphia. Also, CAC coins continued to bring substantial premiums in Internet sales by GreatCollections. Here are 10 examples, which were selected from a large number of results that could have been listed. On August 12, GreatCollections sold a CAC-approved MS64 grade 1857 Flying Eagle cent for $1,649. This same firm sold certified MS64 1856 Flying Eagle cents, without CAC stickers, for $1,056 on March 25, 2018, for $1,132 on November 5, 2017, and for [...]

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31 08, 2018

ANA Coin Show in Philadelphia Draws Nearly 10,000, Offered Numismatic Feast For The Eyes

By |2018-08-31T22:11:44+00:00August 31st, 2018|Coin Shop Blog|Comments Off on ANA Coin Show in Philadelphia Draws Nearly 10,000, Offered Numismatic Feast For The Eyes

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, Editor The American Numismatic Association (ANA) World's Fair of Money convention held in Philadelphia August 14-18, 2018 was a rousing success by many measures. The ANA just released the total attendance figures for the coin show, and we now know 9,939 people walked through the doors of the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City to enjoy one of the biggest East Coast numismatic events in years. And it wasn't just big attendance numbers that helped make the ANA World's Fair of Money a success, but also record figures for some rare coins and currency that crossed the [...]

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29 08, 2018

PNG Donates To ICTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts

By |2018-08-29T22:16:36+00:00August 29th, 2018|Coin Shop Blog|Comments Off on PNG Donates To ICTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts

To help fight fake numismatic merchandise in the marketplace, the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org) has donated $15,525 to the Industry Council for Tangible Assets Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (www.ictaonline.org/actf). “Our PNG Board members personally donated $10,500 and the remainder of the money came from a portion of the fee for PNG members who took tables at the 2018 PNG/ANA Numismatic Trade Show in Philadelphia,” explained PNG Executive Director Robert Brueggeman. The donation was announced by PNG President Barry Stuppler at the PNG Awards banquet in Philadelphia, August 13. “Counterfeiting is a problem that potentially confronts every dealer and every collector, and [...]

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