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  1. Mint Spotlights Presidential $1 Coin Products in May

    May 7, 2008 by admin

    Beginning May 13, 2008, the United States Mint is shining the spotlight on its Presidential $1 Coin products. Here’s what collectors can expect.

    John Quincy Adams Presidential DollarOn Tuesday, May 13, the United States Mint will release a second option in the collection, the United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Historical Signature Set, in honor of John Adams, our Nation’s second President.

    This latest product includes a proof version of the John Adams Presidential $1 Coin and an intaglio print of John Adams from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The intaglio print is visible from the cover of the textured, leather-like folder of the United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Historical Signature Set. Inside the folder is the official John Adams Presidential signature, courtesy of the White House Historical Association. A Certificate of Authenticity accompanies each set.

    The first option in the collection, the United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Historical Signature Set – George Washington, is also available.

    Source: CoinLink.com

    The next Presidential $1 coin to be released is the John Quincy Adams dollar (pictured) which will be released on 15 May 2008. A full release schedule is available on the U.S. Mint Web site.

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  2. New Presidential $1 Dollar products for May

    May 7, 2008 by admin

    US Mint Presidential $1 Coin Products in MayThe United States Mint has announced the upcoming arrival of new Presidential $1 dollar coin products in May.

    For some collectors, the announced offerings may come as a bit of a surprise since the Mint is pushing out an additional product as well as the next scheduled coin honoring U.S. Presidents.

    They have, in fact, extended their Presidential product line and are spotlighting already released coins in new ways.

    Presidential $1 Coin Historical Signature Set

    The U.S. Mint had somewhat quietly released a new collection in April called the Presidential $1 Coin Historical Signature Set. It featured George Washington.

    Source: CoinNews.net

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  3. 2008 American Eagle Platinum Proof Coins up 45%

    May 5, 2008 by admin

     

    2008 US Mint Proof Platinum $100

    The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the 2008 American Eagle Platinum Proof Coins at 12:00 noon (ET) on May 5, 2008. This year’s coins feature the final design in the three-year series entitled, “The Foundations of American Democracy,” celebrating our Nation’s Judicial Branch of government.Emblazoned on the reverse of the 2008 American Eagle Platinum Proof Coins is an allegorical image of Lady Justice, a classic symbol dating back to the Greeks and Romans. Scales, suspended from a finger of her right hand, represent the delicate balance of the law. A sword in her left hand symbolizes the power of reason, which can be wielded in either direction. The bald eagle-our Nation’s symbol of courage and freedom-watches over our firm foundation of democracy.

    Source: CoinLink.com

    The Proof One Ounce coin will cost US$2,299.95, and the Proof Four-Coin Set will sell for US$4,119.95. Volatility in the spot price of platinum over the past year has forced the Mint to raise its prices for the Proof 2008-W American Eagle .9995 fine platinum coins, ranging 17.4 to 45 percent higher than 2007 prices.

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  4. Double struck $1 in set

    April 8, 2008 by admin

    Double Struck Madison Dollar

    Jeff Makkos of Ohio reports finding a double struck 2007-P James Madison dollar in a Mint-issue set. The type of double strike involved is what errorists refer to as an “In-Collar Double Strike with Rotation Between Strikes.”The cause may be due to two different scenarios.

    The first possibility is that the coin was struck normally and then reentered the coining area falling back over the collar where it was forced back into the collar by a second strike in a position rotated just a few degrees away from the original strike.

    Another possibility suggested by CONECA president Mike Diamond, is that coin remained in the collar while the inner sleeve of the collar broke loose and rotated within resulting in the same effect.

    Source: NN, 08 April 2008.

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  5. Ed Moy releases NM quarter 06 April 2008

    April 6, 2008 by admin

    U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy (TKE alumni from Lambda, Univ. of Wisconsin) said America’s coins are public art that people get to see every day. He said they also can be educational — such as coins with presidents’ pictures or the program to honor each of the 50 states on the backs of quarters.

    Director Moy and Gov. Bill Richardson launched New Mexico’s quarter on Monday 07 April 2008 at the state Capitol in Santa Fe. Moy will also be in Albuquerque for a coin collectors’ forum open to everyone.

    The New Mexico quarter is the 47th coin of the United States Mint’s popular 50 State Quarters Program, because New Mexico was the 47th state to be accepted into the Union in 1912.  The coin bears the image of a Zia sun symbol over a topographical outline of the State with the inscription “Land of Enchantment.”  The coin also bears the inscriptions “New Mexico” and “1912.”

    The New Mexico quarter design:

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    WHAT:

    Launch of the New Mexico Commemorative Quarter-Dollar &
    Quarter Exchange
    Coin Collectors Forum on Eve of Launch

    WHO:

    United States Mint Director Ed Moy
    New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
    Secretary Stuart Ashman, Department of Cultural Affairs
    State Historian Estevan Rael-Galvez
    Santa Fe All Stars

    WHEN:

    Launch:  April 7th, 2008, 11 a.m. (MT); Quarter Exchange to immediately follow ceremony

    Coin Collectors Forum:  April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (MT)

    WHERE    :

    Launch:  Capitol Rotunda, State Capitol Building, Santa Fe, NM
    Coin Collectors Forum:  National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, 1701 Fourth St. SW, Albuquerque, NM

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  6. U.S. Mint to Strike Ultra-High Relief Saints

    March 15, 2008 by admin

    Proposed 2009 Saint

    U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy has announced that the U.S. Mint will issue a recreation of the famous and beloved Ultra-High Relief Saint-Gaudens $20 Double Eagle gold piece in 2009. The special issue coins will be struck in solid 24-karat gold on 27 mm blanks that I would expect to at least a quarter of an inch or more in thickness.When the original Ultra-High Relief Saints were struck in 1907, the Mint had a very difficult time striking them as the coin’s designer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, intended them to appear. According to Walter Breen’s Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, it took nine striking blows of the coining press, at an immense hydraulic force of 172 tons of pressure, to bring up the detail on the Ultra-High Relief Double Eagles. Between each strike, the coin had to be removed from the press and annealed, a process which softens the coin blank so that it takes the impression from the dies more completely.

    Then the blank had to be carefully replaced in the coin press, aligned exactly as before, for the next striking blow. On the final blow, the edge lettering was imparted via a tripartite (three part) collar die. (The collar is the round base that confines the metal of the coin blank during striking so that the coin stays perfectly round and of uniform size. It is sometimes called the “third die,” just as the edge of a coin is often called the “third side” of a coin. On most U.S. coins, the collar die is either plain or reeded.)

    Source: coins.about.com

    Among the production specifications approved by Secretary Paulson are the new coin’s business-strike finish and a diameter of 27 millimeters. Only 2009-dated coins will be minted. The coins will go on sale in early 2009, although sales may continue into 2010 if inventory exists.

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  7. 2008 Quarter Designs Released

    November 29, 2007 by admin

    2008 Quarter Designs Released

    The U.S. Mint has announced the final designs for the 2008 Statehood quarter series. From Numismatic News:

    Finalized designs for 2008-dated state quarters were shown to the public Nov. 27 by the U.S. Mint. These five quarters, honoring Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii, bring to an end the popular 50 states quarter series.

    Oklahoma’s quarter features the state bird, the Scissortail Flycatcher, flying above the state wildflower, the Indian Blanket. New Mexico selected the Zia sun symbol superimposed over a topographical outline of the state. Arizona has on its quarter a detailed image of the Grand Canyon and the state flower, the Saguaro Cactus.

    Reverse of the Alaska quarter shows a grizzly bear emerging from water with a salmon in its jaws and shows the North Star displayed above the inscription “The Great Land.”

    The final state quarter, Hawaii, features King Kamehameha I stretching his hand toward the eight major islands of Hawaii.

    (Source:  Numismaster.com)

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