Dec
17

America The Beautiful 5 Oz Silver Bullion Coins

These silver coins are certainly nothing but the ordinary. America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins are 5 ounces of .999 fine silver with special and challenging design elements.
U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy described earlier in the year, part of the delay has been in developing a process to inscribe the fineness and weight on the edge of each coin. The special design element is mandated by the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act.

Challenges of incusing the edges, which are particularly thin due to the required bullion coin diameter and weight specifications, have been overcome with the help of a newly purchased coin press that was designed to strike larger coins.

America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins will be duplicates of the standard circulating America the Beautiful Quarters, with the exception of their size and “.999 FINE SILVER 5.0 OUNCE” edge letterings. Circulating quarters have a reeded edge — 119 reeds in total, and a diameter of 0.955 inches, or 24.26 millimeters. They weigh just 5.670 grams.

Each America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin will:

* have a 3.0 inch diameter versus 0.955 inches for the quarters;weigh 5.0 ounces as compared to the weight of

* 11.340 grams in each quarter;have a composition of .999 fine silver versus the cupro-nickel metals in quarters;

* have incused into the edge the fineness and weight of the bullion coin as compared to the reeded edge of a quarter.

The five quarter-dollars this year that will be replicated in design include:

2010 Hot Springs National Park Quarter for Arkansas,

2010 Yellowstone National Park Quarter for Wyoming,

2010 Yosemite National Park Quarter for California,

2010 Grand Canyon National Quarter Park for Arizona, and

2010 Mount Hood National Quarter Forest for Oregon

Sometime these coins are referred to as “2010 5 oz quarters” as they

America The Beautiful 5 Oz Silver Bullion Coins

Dec
13

New Zealand Kiwi Silver Coin – Rare Find For Coin Collectors

New Zealand coins quickly becoming popular with coin collectors worldwide. Why do you want them to have in your collection? New Zealand coins are one of the rarest coins on the market, their mintage is often below 10,000 coins (limited editions), quality is great and coins feature attractive design.

New Zealand mint recently released NEW limited edition, 3-year coin series to celebrate New Zealand’s most loved native icon – the kiwi. Different design will be issued annually over the next three years, celebrating uniqueness of the country with the kiwi bird.

Each year, a new coin will be designed featuring a kiwi. The pure gold and silver legal tender coins offer contemporary style, and VERY limited editions – in 2009, gold kiwi had 1,500 coins minted only and silver kiwi – 7,500 coins.

Get

New Zealand Kiwi Silver Coin – Rare Find For Coin Collectors

Nov
26

Silver Dollar Coins – Prized Collectibles

Lots of folks enjoy accumulating and exchanging silver dollar coins as a pastime. Now is it less common to see these silver coins at all so it is a thrill to come across one. Unfortunately, not everyone recognizes rarity and seeing only the denomination of these coins will have no problem spending them like any other cash.

In the late 19th century, a silver dollar known as the Morgan dollar was put into use. This characterizes of an eagle on one side and the face of Miss Liberty on the other side. Due to the weedy looks of the eagle in the coin, it is sometimes referred to as the “buzzard dollar”. The production of Morgan dollar coins stopped in 1921, but even now they are worth collecting.

Some people like to trade their coins for others. Hobbyists like themselves may own a certain coin that is needed to fit a specific collection, so they will turn to these fellow coin collectors and offer one of their own unique coins. To trade dollar coins, you will have to have a fairly rare coin yourself. Most coin collectors have many dollar coins and will trade a coin they have a duplicate of, so as not to lose the coin for their collection.

Silver dollar coins can be quite striking. The coins which are made of almost pure silver are more valuable and more attractive than the coins that are made of copper. At various times, the United States Government issues limited edition commemorative silver

Silver Dollar Coins – Prized Collectibles

Go back to top