CoinWeek Article Leads to the Discovery of Previously Unknown 1942-1946...
A coin dealer’s article on Double Mint Sets leads to the discovery of 1942-1946 Double Mint Sets… By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. This is a story about five tiny cloth sacks, a...
View Article10 Selections from the New Kolbe & Fanning Fixed Price Book You Have to See…
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… At CoinWeek, we love numismatic literature. This is why, when we saw the new Kolbe & Fanning Fixed Price List for Select Numismatic Books, we had...
View ArticleCoinWeek and Its Writers Win Eight Numismatic Literary Guild Awards
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… Plaques, dinner, and humor dished out at Numismatic Literary Guild Bash… The Numismatic Literary Guild Bash is a chance for some of the industry’s...
View ArticleOdyssey Marine Releases Preliminary List of Numismatic Items Recovered from...
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. Odyssey Marine Exploration (NASDAQ: OMEX) published its fourth operational report Report #14-04 (PDF), which details the firm’s ongoing salvage...
View ArticleAs Legal Issues Mount, Merit Gold Customers Seek Relief
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… In CoinWeek’s initial report on Merit Gold and Silver, we wrote that the Santa Monica City’s Attorney’s Office had filed a complaint against the firm,...
View ArticleNumismatic Quick Hits: Virginia Numismatic Association Annual Convention +...
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. The VNA Annual Convention Over the weekend, Charles travelled to Fredericksburg, Virginia to take in the Virginia Numismatic Association’s (VNA’s)...
View ArticleMike Getlin: Google Killed Merit Gold
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… Last night I got an email from Mike Getlin, former Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Merit Gold and Silver. In the email, he...
View ArticleSilver Market Tycoon Nelson Bunker Hunt Dead at 88
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. “A billion dollars ain’t what it used to be.” So said Texas oil magnate Nelson Bunker Hunt after he and his brother William Herbert Hunt, along with a...
View ArticleNumismatic Quick Hits: Butte Nugget Sold + Bitcoin News + Denmark Cashes Out
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. It’ll be a busy week for us here at CoinWeek. Charles will be leaving for Baltimore on Wednesday to attend the Whitman Expo. As always, you’re...
View ArticleFirst Read: Coins & Collectors: Golden Anniversary Edition
First Read, a continuing series of essays about classic and contemporary works of numismatic literature… Review by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… Coins & Collectors: Golden...
View ArticleWhy the National Media Has the ISIS Gold and Silver Coin Story Wrong
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. The news exists–or should exist–to produce an informed populace, under the assumption that a populace needs to be informed in order to make beneficial...
View ArticleNobel Prize Awarded to Molecular Biologist James Watson for Sale at Auction
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… Once called the Caligula of Biology[1], now set to score big on the sale of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific medals… James Dewey Watson,...
View Article5 Gifts Your Favorite Numismatist Might Actually Like
by Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek… Do you have a coin collector in your life but don’t know what to get them? Fear not fellow traveler, CoinWeek is here with five numismatist-approved...
View ArticleWatson Nobel Prize Medal Sets Record at Christie’s Auction
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. On Thursday, Christie’s of New York auctioned a unique Nobel Prize medal belonging to Dr. James D. Watson, one of the 20th century’s most preeminent...
View ArticleExquisite Barber Dimes and Proof Morgans Headline Legend’s Regency X Auction...
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. For dealers and collectors at the top end of the U.S. rare coin market, all eyes will be on the beautiful Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada at 5:00...
View ArticleAs Relations with Cuba Thaw, Market for Cuban Coins Likely to Heat Up
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek.com… Ask most Americans born following the Cuban Missile Crisis about Cuba, and you’ll probably hear about cigars or Guantanamo Bay. Maybe baseball. But...
View ArticleIs the Legend Rare Coin Auction’s Regency X Sale a Sign of Things to Come in...
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. The conclusion of Legend Rare Coin Auction’s Regency X December 18 sale at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas marks the end of the 2014...
View ArticleAmerica’s African-American Numismatic Legacy
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek …. When we sit down to write, we have a few guiding principles. One of our basic assumptions is that the market for modern American coinage is...
View ArticleFirst Read: Photographs of Thomas Jefferson Nickels: Die Varieties and...
First Read, a continuing series of essays about classic and contemporary works of numismatic literature… By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. In this edition of First Read, we take a look...
View ArticlePCGS Digital Coin Album is Clever Innovation, not Gimmick
By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek…. On Thursday, January 29, 2015, PCGS (NASDAQ: CLCT) announced the launch of its new PCGS Digital Coin Album, a virtual coin album that ties in with the...
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