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Pages have been added for the Standing Liberty Quarter , Washington Eagle Quarter , and U.S. State & Territories Quarters on the coin information page . Stay tuned for more updates! Share this on Facebook Digg this! Share this on Reddit Share this on del.icio.us Add this to Google Reader Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Tweet This! Post this to MySpace Share this on Technorati Email this to a friend... Read Full Story

The US Mint has revealed the product release schedule for the rest of 2010. You can start ordering each item at noon Eastern Standard Time. PRODUCT ON-SALE DATE United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin & First Spouse Medal Set TM – Franklin Pierce 06/24/10 Franklin Pierce $1 Coin Cover 07/01/10 2010 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set® 07/15/10 2010 United States Mint Proof Set® 07/22/10 America the Beautiful Quarters TM Bags and Two-Roll... Read Full Story

I hope everyone reading has a happy, healthy, successful 2010! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Post this to MySpace Subscribe to the comments for this post? Add this to Google Bookmarks Share this on FriendFeed Read Full Story

The US Mint has released a preliminary product schedule for 2010. Currently, exact dates have been set for three 2010-dated products: Northern Mariana Islands Official First Day Coin Cover, 2010 Native American $1 Coin Rolls, and 2010 Kennedy Half-Dollar Bag and Two-Roll Set . The remaining products have release dates listed by month. The preliminary schedule includes most of the same core products that were offered last year with the new 2010-dated coins. This includes quarter bags and... Read Full Story

If you had your heart set on picking up the 2009 Ultra High Relief Gold Double Eagle for your collection but just keep putting it off, your time is running out. The US Mint has announced that sales of the 2009 UHR will end at 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on December 31. This is, of course, not really a surprise, as 2009 ends just hours later. Over 108,961 coins have been sold so far. Final mintage figures will be published in January. Share this on Facebook Digg this... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON – The United States Mint today announced the new design that Americans will see on the reverse (tails side) of Native American $1 Coins next year.  The design, based on the theme “Government – The Great Tree of Peace,” depicts the Hiawatha Belt with five arrows bound together, with the inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1, Haudenosaunee and Great Law of Peace.  The United States Mint will commence issuing these coins in January 2010, and they will be available throughout 2010... Read Full Story

from United States Mint Press Releases/Public Statements WASHINGTON – The United States Mint today unveiled designs for the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollar.  The Boy Scouts of America Centennial Commemorative Coin Act (Public Law 110-363) authorizes the United States Mint to mint and issue silver one-dollar coins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner approved the coin’s designs on... Read Full Story

As any serious (or would-be serious) coin collector knows, coins are graded on a 70 point scale meant to standardize descriptions of coin condition. All else being equal, a higher grade coin should be more valuable than a lower grade, and at the high end of the grading scale the difference can be substantial. For example, a 1924 Standing Liberty quarter from the Philadelphia mint is worth about $600 in MS-65 condition. Not bad, but the same type of coin in MS-67 condition is worth $2,400... Read Full Story

The Mint has released production figures for circulating coins through November 2009. Total production for the month was only 76.06 million coins, a decrease of nearly 80% from October and the lowest production in years. These figures include the final mintages for the Zachary Taylor Presidential Dollar and the Northern Mariana Islands quarter. Only Lincoln cents, Presidential Dollars, and NMI quarters were produced during November. Cents and dollars were produced at the Philadelphia Mint... Read Full Story

The Mint has unveiled the images that will become the 2010 Presidential dollar coins. The four presidents, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchannon, and Abraham Lincoln will be released in three month increments throughout the year. The obverse designs on the Millard Fillmore and Abraham Lincoln Presidential $1 Coins are by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart; the obverse design on the Franklin Pierce Presidential $1 Coin is by United States Mint Artistic Infusion... Read Full Story