Issue Highlights: July 2018
Highlights of the July 2018 print edition of COINage magazine
Goldman Sachs Forecasts $1,425 Gold by Year’s End
By Mike Fuljenz
On Thursday, January 10, 2019, the U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs raised its gold forecasts to $1,425 over the next 12 months....
Gold Prices Back Above $1,800
Morning trading on July 8, 2021, saw gold prices track above $1,800 per ounce after the yellow metal had been hovering between $1,755 and...
Rare Coins Create Feeding Frenzy
Rare coins are among the reason tens of thousands of new millionaires and billionaires were minted during the pandemic. And it’s not just super high...
Time To Buy Pre-1933 Gold Coins?
With gold below $1,500 per ounce again, is now the time to buy pre-1933 United States gold coins? The answer may be yes, especially...
Market Report: Discontinue the Cent
President Trump wants each U.S. department to cut five percent in costs. Everyone has an idea for cutting small amounts, but we have to think bigger to make a dent in a public debt that is $21 trillion and growing by about $1 trillion each year. When it comes to the U.S. Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), I have made the most cost-effective suggestion many times over the last five years: Kill the penny!
My Two Cents’ Worth: A Perfect Spring Day
A PERFECT SPRING DAY
by Ed Reiter
Big things are afoot in the world of coins.
In response to complaints from disgruntled consumers, the United States Mint...
Bitcoin Risks and Dangers
The price for a single Bitcoin peaked at $19,783.21 on December 17, 2017. On August 9, 2018, the quoted price is $6,475, down 67% in less than eight months.
My Two Cents’ Worth: Why Not a JFK Commemorative?
This year marks a major anniversary for one of the most shocking events in U.S. history. It was 50 years ago, on Nov. 22,...
Featured
Most Popular
PCGS Coin of the Week: 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar, PCGS MS66+
The United States Mint produced its first silver dollars in 1794, just a year after the release of the first mass-circulation copper...
Latest reviews
Ancient Coin Collecting 101
Ancient numismatics covers a wide range of coins representing several civilizations that existed during antiquity. Generally speaking, it refers to currency minted from about...
Teaching Space
With recent rocket launches, solar and lunar eclipses, and planetary sightings, the subject of space is a hot topic. The U.S. Mint has...
New Facebook Poll
COINage has received several recent press releases regarding the national parks quarters, the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program, as it's officially called.
The fact that...
