Platinum, Gold, Silver & Coins

Beginning in 2010, the United States Mint will issue quarters featuring national parks & sites to be honored with a coin in each of the 56 host jurisdictions.
The United States Mint will consult with the Secretary of the Interior to ensure appropriateness of each of the 56 national site recommendations based on their natural or historic significance, and to validate the date on which each recommended site was established as a national site.
The approved list will also establish the order in which each quarter is released. Quarters will be released at a rate of five per year beginning in 2010.
The United States Mint will contact the head of the Federal entity responsible for the supervision, management, or conservancy of each national site. The United States Mint will ask the Federal entity’s head to appoint a knowledgeable Federal official to serve as its liaison for the national site (e.g., National Park Superintendent, National Forest Supervisor, Federal Preservation Officer). The liaison will assist the United States Mint by identifying source materials for candidate designs.

This does not calculate 5/56 that equals 11.2 years. If they produced 8 quarters per year thats a even 7 years or 4 quarters that would take 14 years….I vote for 8

Coin grading is a skill that takes many years of study. A great reference book for grading United States coins is the ANA Grading Standards 6th edition for United States coins.

Coin Grading Services
3rd Party grading services get your coins professionally graded.

The top 5 grading services are.

PCGS - Professional Coin Grading Service.

ICG - Independent Coin Grading.

NGC - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.

ANACS - American Numismatic Association Certification Service.

Canadian coin grading experts:

ICCS - International Coin Certification Service.

There are many coin grading services but they do not have the following and good reputation among coin collectors.

Here is one worth mention.

NANCS - North American Numismatic Certification Service.

The grading from this company seems to be consistent and within ANA standards plus they go the extra mile and showing the entire grade reverse and obverse by way of the their coin ID search and fair market value of coin, this is the only Grading Service I know that does this.

The NANCS uses a generic holder, I hope they invest in holder of their own that will separate them from others.

nancs.com

Harry Potter legal tender coins.

A few years ago I purchased 1 Harry Potter collector coin……..I lied….I purchased 10, I got good deal.
These coins are 1 crown legal tenders in the Isle of Man. The Harry Potter 1 Crown coin is Minted by the Pobjoy Mint.

The Pobjoy Mint struck a series of these coins, each displaying scenes from the first 3 Harry Potter books

Harry Potter Encountering Aragog

Dobby Visits Harry Potter

Harry Potter Retrieves Sword

Harry Potter Tom Riddle Steals

Flying Key

Arriving at the Burrow - The one pictered below.

Because of licensing restrictions, the mint is not allowed to sell the coin in North America, making the coin difficult to get in Canada and the USA………I got 10.

You can find them on e-bay check my e-bay store …Maybe I will part with one or two……..maybe.
http://stores.ebay.com/Gem70-Collectibles

PUBLIC LAW 109–145—DEC. 22, 2005 Redesign for 2009 Lincoln Cent.

On September 22, 2008 United States Mint exposed 4 one cent Lincoln reverse (tails) designs.

Sorry, I’m a little late with this information “3 months”.  Check your change for these 4 new designs in 2009 only.

The Secretary of the Treasury will issue the 2009 1 cent coins with the exact metal content contained in 1909 “95% copper, 5% tin” for numismatic purposes. The mint will also issue these coin with the same metal content used in current issues “2.5% copper, balance zinc”

2009 Lincoln One Cent Program is to celebrate the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the 100th anniversary of the first issue of the Lincoln cent.

 Frantic Cry’s of a 38 year old male  “Drama Queen”

A friend of mine called the other night, his tone was loud his voice unstable, I could not make heads or tails of what his belligerent rantings were about.

Finally after about 2 minutes of this I interrupted…….Dude, you got to chill, now start from the beginning. He replied The United States Mint Ripped Me Off.

My friend had purchased a bag of presidential dollars from the US mint when he open the bag to cherry pick he could not find a single dollar above mint state 62.

I told him his first mistake was opening the bag, mint sewn bags are a novelty item and will hold more value unopened. I also told him that he would have better luck going to the local bank and asking them if they had any new bags or rolls of the newest presidential dollars, he would only have to pay face value and not the premium the mint charges.

The United State Mint bags and rolls are collector items and the coins that go into them are business struck, which means they go through a mass production process and get banged and slammed around going from conveyer to bins to bags.

If you want cherry mint state coins you need to buy the annual United States Mint uncirculated coin sets.