Jul 30, 2018 | Announcements, ICTA/NCBA
Homeland Security loans items to illustrate levels of deceptiveness, diversity
The Industry Council for Tangible Assets Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force will exhibit a five-case display of counterfeit coins, precious metals bars, and grading holders during the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money Aug. 14-18 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
The counterfeit items are on special loan from the Cherry Hill, N.J., office of Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The items were confiscated during HSI’s investigation of a New Jersey man, 34-year-old Jonathan A. Kirschner, who pleaded guilty June 25 to impersonating a federal agent while selling counterfeit coins and bars and unlawfully importing counterfeit coins and bars into the United States.
Left, fake 2011-W gold $50 Buffalo bullion coin in fake NGC holder. Right, fake !922-S Saint-Gaudens $20 double eagle in fake PCGS holder. These fakes will be among those in a special exhibit of counterfeits on special loan from the Department of Homeland Security during the WFOM in Philadelphia Aug. 14-18.
The fake coins and bars in the exhibit constitute about 20 percent of the items seized during the investigation. If genuine, items in the exhibit would have a current estimated retail value of more than $10 million.
Among the counterfeits to be on display in the special exhibit are fake gold bars in fake APMEX, PAMP, and Royal Canadian Mint holders.
“We are highly appreciative of the Department of Homeland Security’s cooperation in loaning these items for public display,” said Beth Deisher, ICTA’s director of anti-counterfeiting. “It is important for collectors and the public to understand the wide range of coins and precious metals bars being counterfeited. Equally important, the buying public needs to be aware of the levels of deceptiveness. Educating the buying public is one of the best defenses we have to thwart the counterfeiters,” Deisher added.
Sampling of fake coins in the special display include nickel 3-cent coins, 1918 Illinois Centennial commemorative half dollar, 1894 Morgan dollar, and 1794 Flowing Hair dollar.
The special exhibit of counterfeits will be displayed in the non-competitive section of educational exhibits on the bourse floor of the World’s Fair of Money.
“We would like to thank the ANA for its cooperation and providing the space and cases for this special exhibit,” Deisher said. “ANA’s primary role is to educate the public about coins and coin collecting. Exhibits like this are an excellent method of disseminating important information,” Deisher said.
Counterfeit Morgan dollar as well as counterfeit PCGS inserts and components of fake PCGS holder are among seized items sized by Homeland Special Investigates division of Homeland Security.
ACTF was first to alert law enforcement about Kirschner posing as an ATF agent and selling counterfeit coins. Two people took their newly purchased Morgan dollars to a coin dealer for evaluation, only to be told they were fake. The dealer alerted ACTF, which contacted federal law enforcement. Members of ACTF also worked closely with investigating agents, providing expert identification and evaluations of the counterfeit coins and bars Kirschner imported from China and other countries.
The charge of impersonating a federal officer carries a maximum potential penalty of three years in prison and the charge of unlawful importation carries a maximum potential penalty of 15 years in prison. Kirschner’s sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 1.
Jul 27, 2018 | ANA, Announcements
The American Numismatic Association (ANA) is recognizing several numismatists who not only lead by example, but pave new pathways within the numismatic hobby. Recognized for their dedication, hard work, passion and contributions, these recipients will be recognized at the World’s Fair of Money® in Philadelphia, Aug. 14-18.
Those being recognized are:
- Cindy Wibker for the Farran Zerbe Memorial Award for Distinguished Service
- David J. McCarthy for Numismatist of the Year
- Abigail Zechman for the Young Numismatist of the Year
- Mark Lighterman for the Lifetime Achievement Award
The Farran Zerbe Memorial Award for Distinguished Service is the highest honor conferred by the American Numismatic Association. It is given in recognition of numerous years of outstanding, dedicated service to numismatics. Cindy Wibker is the recipient of this year’s award.
For 25 years, Wibker has dedicated her career to Florida United Numismatists (FUN) as convention coordinator, organizing one of the premier shows in the country. This is no easy task, as FUN’s annual January show regularly draws an average of 10,000 attendees over four days, and its summer event, held each July, welcomes about 3,000 hobbyists.
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the young Wibker enjoyed filling Whitman nickel and cent folders with pocket change and acquiring specimens through mail-order businesses. However, her mind turned to other pursuits. Growing up she enjoyed spending time outside playing different sports, going to games, spending time with her family and riding her bike.
During her last year of college, she returned to numismatics. Wibker’s then-husband, Bob Grellman, who began collecting at age 7, encouraged her to once again dip her toe in the numismatic waters. She bought her first Civil War token in April 1975 and was hooked.
An Air Force wife for 13 1/2 years, Wibker took time off from her career to raise her two sons, Kevin and Andrew. During this period, she acquired more Civil War tokens, as well as Thomas Edison medals, early Mardi Gras collectibles and Louisiana tokens. Unlike her childhood self, Wibker learned to love history as an adult, mostly through the lens of Civil War tokens.
In 1988, after her husband retired from the Air Force, Wibker and her family moved to Florida. Jim Partin, a friendly face in the hobby, encouraged the busy mom to run for the FUN board. She was appointed exhibit chairman in 1990 and was on the board for three years. When the convention coordinator suddenly passed away, Wibker was asked if she would like to give the position a try. She took on the challenge, taught herself how to do the job and has been a success at it for 25 years.
Among her numerous honors are the Award of Merit (2005), Presidential Award (2007) and Polly Abbott Service Award (2011) from FUN; and Woman of the Year (2001 and 2009) from the National Silver Dollar Roundtable. She was named a Numismatic Ambassador by Numismatic News in 1994. In addition to FUN, she has served on the board of directors for the Civil War Token Society, Token and Medal Society and Women in Numismatics, of which she is a charter member.
Wibker joined the ANA in 1980. She was quickly recognized for her numismatic knowledge and people skills, and got to know many individuals in the hobby. At age 25, she tried her hand at exhibiting and was surprised when her Alabama coal-mine tokens display won best of show. She went on to become an exhibit judge in 1987.
Wibker’s steady involvement with the Association brought her many accolades, including the Glenn Smedley Memorial Award (1996) and ANA Medal of Merit (1997), Exemplary Service Award (2002), three Presidential Awards (1997, 1998 and 2009) and the Joseph E. Boling Award for Judging Excellence (2010). In 2017 she received the ANA Goodfellow Award in recognition of her work as host chair of the ANA’s National Money Show® in Orlando.
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The Numismatist of the Year, first presented in 1995, was established to recognize individuals within the numismatic community who have demonstrated long-term leadership in the field and to the American Numismatic Association. This year’s recipient is David J. McCarthy.
Having a lifelong interest in numismatics, he accepted a position with Richard Nachbar Rare Coins in 2000. In 2003 he moved to Northern California to continue his career with Kagin’s, where he is currently the firm’s senior numismatist and researcher.
McCarthy has been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Secret Service, Bank of California, Union Bank, The San Francisco Old Mint and the American Numismatic Association. He is a contributor to A Guide Book of United States Coins (the “Red Book”) and CoinWorld, and has published groundbreaking research in The Numismatist. His article “Nova Constellatio: Identifying the First American Coin” (August 2017) received a Wayte and Olga Raymond Memorial Literary Award.
An ANA life member, McCarthy also belongs to the Florida United Numismatists, Pacific Coast Numismatic Society and Central States Numismatic Society. He received the ANA’s Glenn Smedley Memorial Award in 2015.
McCarthy enjoys sharing his expertise and enthusiasm for numismatics and has taught several classes at the ANA’s Summer Seminar. He also is a sought-after speaker on the subject of pioneer gold coins, regulated gold of Early America and other specialized areas of numismatics, history and collecting. He is particularly knowledgeable about the coinage of Julius Popper, Massachusetts silver and American Confederation gold.
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The American Numismatic Association recognizes that the future of the hobby depends on the recruitment and education of young numismatists. The Young Numismatist of the Year award honors young collectors for outstanding contributions to the hobby and industry. Recipients exhibit a positive attitude, strong communication skills, cooperation, dependability and avid interest in expanding their numismatic knowledge. Receiving this year’s award is Abigail Zechman.
In 2012, Zechman was moving up the ranks in Girl Scouts. That year, she entered a Florida United Numismatists (FUN) show looking to earn a coin-collecting patch and left with a passion for numismatics.
She quickly joined FUN and has since become a member of Early American Coppers, the Combined Organization of Numismatic Error Collectors of America (CONECA) and the Original Hobo Nickel Society. Coin carving came naturally to the art-minded student, who has taken numerous classes and explored a variety of media. She counts the late Archie Taylor, well known for his carved creations, among her most cherished mentors.
The 16-year-old collector attended ANA’s Summer Seminar this year and served as auction head for the YN Benefit Auction during the second week. After graduating high school, Zechman intends to pursue a career as a coin grader and welcomes the opportunity to help others.
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The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an individual, family, firm or judicial entity that has made outstanding contributions to organized numismatics. Energetic, organized and seldom without his clipboard in hand, life member and National Exhibit Coordinator Mark Lighterman is the 2018 recipient. Lighterman will be honored during the World’s Fair of Money in Philadelphia.
An avid American Numismatic Association promoter, Lighterman has been a national volunteer since 2003, taking on his current duties as national exhibit coordinator in 2008. He chaired the ANA Exhibiting Committee from 2005 to 2009, and today also serves the ANA as parliamentarian. Lighterman is president of Combined Organizations of Numismatic Error Collectors of America (CONECA), treasurer of the Token and Medal Society (TAMS), past president of Florida United Numismatists (FUN), and a charter member of the Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club. He has written articles for The Numismatist and CONECA’s bimonthly publication, ErrorScope.
Lighterman is always looking for new Florida gaming tokens to add to his collection, and he avidly pursues error coins. Among his many major off-metal strikes are a $20 gold piece struck on a large cent, a Flying Eagle cent struck on a half dime, and a 1934 Peace dollar struck on a quarter. Although the latter is one of his favorites, he quickly notes that all his coins are important to him. Several years ago, Whitman Publishing sought him out for his expertise, and in 2010 he contributed to Nicholas P. Brown’s 100 Greatest U.S. Error Coins.
In 2009 Lighterman took his place alongside fellow hobbyists in the Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club’s Hall of Fame. He was recognized as CONECA’s Lyndon King Outstanding Member of the Year in 2012 and inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame in 2014. The ANA presented him its Presidential Award in 1999, the Glenn Smedley Memorial Award in 2002, Medal of Merit in 2012, Adna G. Wilde Jr. Award for Excellence in 2015, and Farran Zerbe Memorial Award for Distinguished Service in 2016.
Jul 27, 2018 | Announcements, Shows & Conventions
(July 26, 2018) — One of the legendary 1787 gold Brasher Doubloons and seven of the finest known 1780s New York colonial era copper coins will be displayed together for the first time in an educational exhibit hosted by Professional Coin Grading Service (www.PCGS.com) at the American Numismatic Association 2018 Philadelphia World’s Fair of Money®, August 14-18.
“The lettering and some design elements of all seven of these distinguished coins are punch linked, and each of these coins is an important part of early American history and numismatics. They will be exhibited at the PCGS booth, #1431, during the 2018 ANA convention,” said PCGS President Don Willis.
The Brasher Doubloons are the first gold coins made in the United States proposed or intended for circulation. The design includes the obverse motto, NOVA EBORACA COLUMBIA EXCELSIOR (translated as “New York and America ever upward”).
The discovery specimen for the legendary, seven known gold 1787 Brasher Doubloons will be displayed by PCGS along with historic New York copper coins at the ANA 2018 Philadelphia World’s Fair of Money®.
(Photo credit: Professional Coin Grading Service www.PCGS.com.)
The coin’s creator, Ephraim Brasher, was well known at the time as a silver and goldsmith and civic leader in New York City, and later was a neighbor of George Washington in lower Manhattan.
Only seven Brasher Doubloons are known; six with the designer’s “EB” hallmark on the eagle’s wing, one with it on the eagle’s breast. The coin that will be displayed in Philadelphia has the hallmark on the eagle’s right wing, and it is the discovery specimen for Brasher Doubloons that was first documented in 1840.
This famous coin was exhibited at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, was a featured display in a nationwide touring exhibit for the 1987 bicentennial of the United States Constitution and was displayed at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World in 1988.
The anonymous current owner of the Brasher Doubloon is described by PCGS as a “West Coast collector,” and the owner of the New York copper coins is described as “a New York dealer and collector.”
The seven New York copper pieces are all either the finest known or among the finest known of their kind. All have impressive pedigrees to one or more collections of well-known numismatists of the past, such as Parmelee, Stickney, Boyd, Garrett, Ford and/or Newman. The coins are:
- 1786 Small Head Non Vi Virtute Vici (“Not by force, but by virtue we have won”) with a portrait believed to be George Washington. Less than two dozen examples are known.
- 1787 Excelsior, Eagle facing left. This is the only Mint State example known and was formerly in the famous Garrett Collection.
The only known mint state example of a 1787 Excelsior, Eagle Left New York copper will be among the historic early American coins on display at the PCGS booth during the ANA 2018 Philadelphia World’s Fair of Money®.
(Photo credit: Professional Coin Grading Service www.PCGS.com.)
- 1787 George Clinton cent, with New York coat of arms, less than a dozen known.
- 1787 Excelsior, Standing Indian/New York arms, one of only about 12 known.
- 1787 Excelsior, Standing Indian/Eagle on Globe design, one of the finest of only about 14 known.
One of the finest of only about 14 known examples of the 1787 Excelsior, Standing Indian, Eagle on Globe design New York coppers will be part of the PCGS display of early American rarities at the ANA 2018 Philadelphia World’s Fair of Money®.
(Photo credit: Professional Coin Grading Service www.PCGS.com.)
- 1787 Nova Eborac (“New York”), rare Large Head variety, one of the finest of only a few dozen known.
- 1787 Nova Eborac, Small Head variety, less than a dozen known and closely linked to the Brasher Doubloons. This is the finest certified example and was formerly in the C.I. Bushnell and Eric P. Newman collections.
“PCGS is proud to work with the owners of these impressive, early American rare coins so visitors to the ANA convention can see and enjoy them in person,” said Willis.
Since its founding in 1986, PCGS experts have certified over 38 million coins with a total market value of over $33 billion. For information about PCGS products and services, including how to submit your coins for authentication and grading, visit www.PCGS.com or call PCGS Customer Service at (800) 447-8848.
Jul 26, 2018 | ANA, Announcements
Numismatics is not just a hobby for adults. The future of the hobby is dependent on younger audiences becoming interested in collecting. Through programs like Coins for A’s and the new Adopt-A-School program, the American Numismatic Association is reaching school-age kids to promote curiosity and interest in numismatics.
The Adopt-A-School program consists of educational kits to be used in a classroom setting. Parents, district representatives or club members can “adopt-a-school” and use the kit to teach students about the importance of numismatics while adhering to the educational curriculum. Various lessons included in the kit are geared towards different age groups, from upper elementary grades to high school.
“Lots of adults end up using a ‘show and tell’ approach in their numismatic presentations at schools,” said Rod Gillis, education director of the ANA. “However, it is best to put a lesson together based on the teacher’s needs. The education kit provides the lesson plans that could easily fit into a classroom schedule, meet a teacher’s goals and provide a more in-depth look at numismatics for the kids. The youth are the future of the hobby.”
Each kit includes instructions to all the different lesson plans, a flash drive with presentations, pencils, coins needed with the lessons, reference books, worksheets, plans for an archaeological dig and more. The kit gives the user access to everything needed to successfully run the educational courses.
Adopt-A-School kits are available for free to ANA member clubs – one kit per ANA club upon request. The kits can also be purchased for $24.95, postage paid. For more information or to order a kit, contact Tiffanie Bueschel at tbueschel@money.org or call (719) 482-9816.
The American Numismatic Association is a congressionally chartered, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to encouraging the study and collection of coins and related items. The ANA helps its 25,000 members and the public discover and explore the world of money through its vast array of educational and outreach programs as well as its museum, library, publications, and conventions. For more information, call 719-632-2646 or visit www.money.org.
Jul 26, 2018 | Announcements, U.S. Mint
The enactment of the American Innovation $1 Coin Act (Act) ushers in the latest numismatic coin program of the United States Mint (Mint). The Act calls for the minting and issuance of non-circulating American Innovation $1 coins for each state, the District of Columbia, and each U.S. territory in the order each State ratified the Constitution of the United States or were admitted into the Union. The program’s duration is a 14-year period that begins January 1, 2019.
The Act also authorizes a 2018 introductory coin which will be minted and issued in the latter part of this calendar year. The introductory coin will bear an obverse common to all coins in the program. It will consist of a likeness of the Statue of Liberty, and the inscriptions of “$1” and “In God We Trust.” The reverse of the introductory coin will be inscribed with “United States of America” and “American Innovators,” and it will include a representation of President George Washington’s signature on the first U.S. patent. The inscription of the year of minting or issuance, mint mark, and “E Pluribus Unum” will be edge-incused into all coins.
American Innovation $1 coins issued for 2019-2033 will bear a reverse image or images emblematic of a significant innovation, an innovator, or a group of innovators from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. According to the legislation, the Secretary of the Treasury will select the designs after consultation with each Governor or other chief executive and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; and review by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.
After the introductory coin’s release in 2018, the Mint will issue the remaining American Innovation $1 coins at a rate of four per year until the end of the program in 2033.
Jul 24, 2018 | Announcements
“Supernova” Double Eagle will be publicly displayed for the first time at the ANA World’s Fair of Money® in Philadelphia
(July 23, 2018) — Named the “Supernova,” an 1857-S Double Eagle with unique, mind-blowing toning was among the thousands of U.S. and world gold coins recovered during the last sunken treasure mission to the fabled “Ship of Gold,” the SS Central America, that sank in 1857. It will be publicly displayed for the first time at the American Numismatic Association 2018 Philadelphia World’s Fair of Money®.
The amazingly toned SS Central America treasure “Supernova” 1857-S Double Eagle is graded PCGS MS67.
Photo credit: Professional Coin Grading Service www.PCGS.com.
“It is the most beautifully toned gold coin ever seen! It has amazing blasts of colors never seen before on any gold coin, so we named it ‘Supernova’ after something truly cosmic,” exclaimed Dwight Manley, managing partner of the California Gold Marketing Group which acquired all of the treasure retrieved during the last recovery expedition in 2014.
“If this were a San Francisco Mint Morgan dollar, it would sell for over 100 times bid,” Manley stated.
Now graded PCGS MS67, the coin displays a mixture of vibrant red and deep blue hues over much of its lustrous gold obverse surface as well as remarkable blue and red toning on the reverse. It will be displayed during the ANA convention at booth #225 along with other SS Central America treasure, including the finest known “San Francisco Mint denomination set” for $1, $2.50, $3, $5, $10 and $20 gold pieces with the finest known Liberty Head Double Eagle, graded PCGS MS67+.
David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, stated: “The SS Central America ‘Supernova’ $20 is beyond amazing. The grade is ultra high, the color is off-the-charts and the originality and story are awe inspiring. Talk about the ‘WOW’ factor! It is one of the most amazing U.S. gold coins I’ve ever seen.”
“This toning, which is undeniably spectacular, is also natural. There was no artificial agent involved in the production of the colors. It is just the way we found it and recovered it from the seabed,” explained geologist Bob Evans, the chief scientist on the 1980’s mission that first located and recovered a portion of the fabulous sunken treasure and who assisted with the 2014 recovery.
“It was discovered in the commercial shipment area near the stern of the shipwreck where there were piles and even rolls or stacks of coins, originally part of boxes of Double Eagles being shipped to New York by San Francisco businesses. This coin almost certainly was part of the commercial shipment. Very local, site-specific chemistry can occur in such conditions, where thousands of coins were deposited when the ship went down.,” Evans stated.
“You can ponder the complicated chemistry, physics and mathematics involved, or you can just step back and say, ‘Wow! Beautiful! That’s an amazing coin!’”
Evans offered this explanation for those who want to ponder the science of the toning on the 1857-S Double Eagle:
“A sub-microscopically thin layer of an unknown mineral adhered to the surfaces of this coin, a layer only about as thick as the wavelength of visible light and varying ever so slightly. Such slight variations in the thickness of very thin media contribute to the phenomenon we know as coin toning. Light is reflected from both the top surface and the bottom surface (against the coin) of this very thin medium — the mineral layer — and the resulting interplay splits parts of the light beam. It’s what optical physicists call interference colors. You sometimes see such rainbow toning in the thin layers of sulfides and other compounds forming on silver coins where the chemistry of the coin itself is involved,” he explained.
“Far rarer is the case here, where outside minerals came in contact with the face of an inert gold coin. These kinds of colors also can be seen in the greens, purples and other hues emanating from soap bubbles, in the rainbow effects near the edge of an oil slick on a puddle of water, and in the internal ‘fire’ of opals.”
Evans will be at the SS Central America treasure exhibit each day during the show to meet with visitors. At 11 am on Friday, August 17, he will present a lecture, “The Many (and New) Treasures of the SS Central America: Revelations & Stories from the 2014 Recoveries,” in room 121B of the convention center. The legendary ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean during a September 1857 hurricane while carrying tons of California Gold Rush gold from Panama to New York City.
The California Gold Marketing Group LLC of Brea, California acquired the 2014 treasure from Ira Owen Kane, Receiver for Recovery Limited Partnership and Columbus Exploration, LLC in a court-approved transaction in November 2017. In 1999, the group acquired all of the available treasure that was recovered in the 1980s.
Jul 18, 2018 | Announcements
THE LONDON MINT OFFICE PARTNERS WITH IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY WITH A SPECIAL INGOT SET
Some of the most famous recruitment posters of the First World War will feature in the first ever Official Imperial War Museums Ingot Set that launches a partnership between The London Mint Office and Imperial War Museums in the centenary of the end of the war.
The London Mint Office produces coins, medals and ingots to commemorate world events and historic milestones. IWM (Imperial War Museums) tells the story of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since the First World War.
The partnership will help examine the context of these famous First World War recruitment posters through an exclusive set of commemorative ingots available in this centenary year. The emotive propaganda posters were carefully designed to strike a chord with potential conscripts in towns and villages across the land as well as overseas, appealing them to enlist, leave their homes and families, and serve their king and country.
Imperial War Museums has selected a number of these iconic posters to be reproduced in full colour on ingots that are to be issued in an exclusive collection by The London Mint Office. Each artist used their own individual approach in mobilising young men and women throughout the length and breadth of the country, sometimes whipping up patriotic fervour, sometimes appealing to their sense of adventure, whilst often reinforcing the social pressures faced in their daily lives.
Managing Director of The London Mint Office, Greg Prosser said: “We are excited to create a special collection of ingots that celebrates perhaps the most iconic images of World War I, which launches this exciting new partnership with Imperial War Museums in such a momentous year. The war posters were instrumental to the war effort as they called the nation to arms, and so our interpretations are a fantastic way to commemorate the end of the war.”
The set begins with the Official Imperial War Museums Silver Layered Ingot featuring the instantly recognisable image of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener. This now infamous image actually started life not as a poster but as the cover of London Opinion magazine in 1914. It was created by professional illustrator Alfred Leete and shows the then Secretary of State for War pointing an accusatory finger at the viewer, directly appealing them to enlist. The image has resonated through the decades, and is even used in US recruitment drives today.
Jul 18, 2018 | Announcements, Shows & Conventions
(Philadelphia, PA) July 16, 2018 — The Numismatic Literary Guild (www.NLGonline.org), a nonprofit organization composed of hobby writers, editors and content producers, will conduct its 2018 NLG Symposium from 10 am to 11 am, Thursday, August 16, at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® (www.WorldsFairofMoney.com) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The group’s annual dinner and awards ceremony, known as “The Bash,” will be held that evening.
The symposium topic will be “Cultivating New Collectors with Online Blogs and Publicity,” and the symposium will be open to the public.
The award-winning speakers include blogger, author and CDN Publishing Editor Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez; CoinWeek Editor and podcast host Charles Morgan; NLG Acting Executive Director and former journalist and broadcaster Donn Pearlman; and blogger, author and former ANA Vice President Scott A. Travers.
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“The internet has become an absolutely crucial part of daily communications for nearly everyone with WiFi access. Whether it’s using a tabletop computer or a small smartphone, the numismatic hobby as a whole must do more online to educate current collectors and attract new people to the hobby,” said Pearlman. “We’ll be discussing ideas at the symposium and certainly welcome participation by all collectors, dealers and the public.”
The one-hour symposium will be held in Room 117 of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. in Philadelphia’s Center City, site of the ANA convention.
Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Numismatic Literary Guild conducts an annual symposium and a separate awards ceremony (“The Bash”) at each ANA summer convention. Open to the public, the 2018 Bash will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, August 16, in Liberty Ballroom A&B of the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, 1201 Market St. Admission is $15 at the door and includes a buffet dinner and dessert.
Sponsors and underwriters for the NLG Bash and awards are: Certified Acceptance Corporation, CDN Publishing, CoinWeek.com, Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society, Michael Fuljenz, Heritage Auctions, Ira and Larry Goldberg, Numismatic Guaranty Corporation, Professional Coin Grading Service and Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
For information about joining the NLG, visit www.nlgonline.org/membership.
Jul 10, 2018 | Announcements
Barry Goldwater Jr., a former member of the US House of Representatives from California, has agreed to individually hand sign certification labels exclusively for NGC. Goldwater, who served in the House for 14 years, is the son of former US senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
Serving alongside his father in Congress, Goldwater earned a reputation as a champion of individual liberty. He co-authored the Privacy Act of 1974, which regulates the distribution of personally identifiable information from federal agencies. He also served on the Space and Aviation Committee, which authorized and oversaw the Apollo 11 mission, including the landing of the first man on the moon in July 1969.
As part of his exclusive agreement with NGC, Goldwater will individually hand sign NGC certification labels that can be encapsulated with a variety of modern US coins that proudly display the motto “Liberty,” which has always resonated with Goldwater and his father.
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Jul 5, 2018 | Announcements, U.S. Mint
WASHINGTON – The United States Mint (Mint) will open sales for the 2018 American Eagle One Ounce Gold Uncirculated Coin (product code 18EH) July 12 at noon Eastern Time (ET).
This coin is a collector version of the Mint’s American Eagle Gold Bullion Coin. Struck at the United States Mint at West Point, the obverse (heads) features a version of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ full-length figure of Liberty with flowing hair, holding a torch in her right hand and an olive branch in her left. The reverse (tails), by sculptor Miley Busiek, features a male eagle carrying an olive branch flying above a nest containing a female eagle and eaglets.
Each encapsulated coin arrives in a burgundy presentation case with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Pricing for the American Eagle One Ounce Gold Uncirculated Coin is determined according to the range in which it appears on the Mint’s “Pricing of Numismatic Gold, Commemorative Gold, and Platinum Products” table. Click here for current pricing information.
The Mint accepts orders at catalog.usmint.gov/ and 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment may order at 1-888-321-MINT. Information about shipping options is available at catalog.usmint.gov/customer-service/shipping.html.
Mintage for the 2018 American Eagle One Ounce Gold Uncirculated Coin is limited to 10,000 units. There is no household order limit.
