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Upcoming 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Launch Ceremonies July 2, 2010 at 9:18 AM Plan your next vacation around the new United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program WASHINGTON - Looking for a great vacation spot?  The United States Mint wants you to consider letting the America the Beautiful Quarters Program be your guide. 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters In its first year, the America the Beautiful Quarters Program is the United States Mint's new 12-year initiative to honor 56 national parks and other national sites in each state, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories.  Each year, the public will see five new quarters bearing reverse (tails side) designs emblematic of each featured national site.(...) Read the rest of Upcoming 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Launch Ceremonies (360 words)   History of eagle coin designs July 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM The eagle is one of the most magnificent birds found in nature. Large and bold, with a hooked beak and fierce-looking eyes, the eagle has long been a symbol of power, majesty and beauty. Bald eagles, found in different parts of the United States, became the national symbol in 1782. Many renderings of this bird can be found on coins, eagles in varying stands, flying, perched or in fanciful pose. An eagle can be seen on the Massachusetts cent of 1787, holding arrows.  The Excelsior pieces of the same year show an eagle... Full Article: Eagles on coins dull to delightful - Numismatic News Related posts: First small cent bears Flying Eagle obverse – Numismatic News 1857 Flying Eagle Cent Die Clashed With $20 Double Eagle   $600 in coin sales or purchases = Tax form? July 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM A blizzard of paperwork could be about to hit numismatics. Passage by Congress of the national health care legislation has had an unintended consequence to the nation's coin collectors, vest-pocket dealers who buy and sell coins, and larger dealers who are frequent buyers of coins that collectors periodically liquidate as they trade up their collections for better coins, or simply sell to take a small profit or loss. What has happened is that effective Jan. 1, 2012, the whole system of ... Full Article: $600 sale? Tax form - Numismatic News Related posts: DGS Unveils New On-Line Submission Form Big change headed to West Michigan in the form of a coin – wzzm13.com   Pierce First Spouse Gold Coins & Medals Lead Sales July 2, 2010 at 8:42 AM In this week's United States Mint sales data, every First Spouse Gold Coin slowed. Retreating sales is common in the fourth week following a new coin launch, but this time the weekly increase was less than half of last week's. Only 413 of the 24-karat gold pieces were purchased, following 918 previously. Jane Pierce First Spouse Gold Proof and Uncirculated Coins - Click Image to Enlarge Jane Pierce proof coins continued their high-stepping march above the older coins, bringing in 196 in new sales. All others stayed in double digit figures. Its uncirculated version, of course, was next in line, adding 76. Together, the Jane Pierce coins took up 65.8 percent of all new sales in the series... Full Article: First Spouse Sales Mostly Jane Pierce - FirstSpouseCoins.us Related posts: Sarah Polk Coins Lead in First Spouse Gold Weekly Sales Julia Tyler First Spouse Gold Coins Lead in Sales   Coin Gradeflation July 2, 2010 at 8:37 AM No one can deny that third-party grading services have been a boon to our hobby; yet their contribution to the gradeflation that has occurred over time has been something less favorable to acknowledge. As a professional grader for over three decades and one who helped developed the strict technical grading standards used long ago, I see the results of gradeflation each day at work. In 1976, at the first third-party grading service (INSAB), we used grading to describe what a coin looked ... Full Article: Gradeflation Opens Up Questions - NumisMaster Related posts: Is Technical Grading Worth Knowing Today? – NumisMaster CAC Stays Strict on Coin Grade Designations   2010 Pierce Presidential $1 Coin Covers July 2, 2010 at 8:26 AM Franklin Pierce Presidential $1 Coin Covers were issued by the United States Mint Thursday, July 1, 2010. The limited-edition product is the second released this year in the American Presidency $1 Coin Cover Series and the 14th since they began in 2007. Franklin Pierce $1 Coin Cover Each is priced at $15.95, which is $1 more than prior year issues. A maximum of 32,000 will be produced, which is 8,000 less than pre-2010 covers. These covers include two Franklin Pierce Presidential dollars that were struck on the first day of minting and are mounted on a display card featuring a portrait of the President. One dollar is from the Mint's Denver facility — struck on March 1, 2010 — and the other is from Philadelphia — produced on March 8, 2010... Full Article: Franklin Pierce Presidential Dollar Coin Cover Issued - CoinNews.net Related posts: US Mint Harrison Presidential Dollar Coin Covers 2010 Franklin Pierce Presidential $1 Coin Launches in Concord, NH, on May 20   American Park and Sites Promoted in 2010 Quarter Releases July 2, 2010 at 8:18 AM The U.S. Mint is asking all to join them on a journey across the United States, according to a press release issued by the Mint which provides the final three ceremonial release dates and locations. Entitled "See America for a Quarter," the Mint reminds collectors, and the public in general, that the new America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program features sites throughout the country ideal for a vacation destination. The Mint goes so far as to recommend visitors come during one of the US Mint's release ceremonies for the quarters... Full Article: 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Ceremony Locations - AmericatheBeautifulQuarters.com Related posts: 2010 American Quarter Designs Revealed US Mint Announces Yellowstone National Park Quarter Launch Ceremony