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| Beginner's Guide to collecting
and investing in rare coins |
| Are you a collector or an
investor? Can you be both? Whatever your answer, a little planning
will go a long way to maximize your satisfaction, in terms of joy
and/or profit. This Guide shows you how to set appropriate goals,
develop and implement a strategy, and stay clear of dangers. It
features an amusing and insightful dialog between a collector and
an investor. |
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| Y2K: Heads or tails?
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Party hearty or hunker in a bunker? These are the New Year's Eve
scenarios proposed on the Internet. Where does the truth lie in
this morass of (mis)information? And what are the implications for
your investment strategy? This article guides you through opposing
Y2K Web sites. Our conclusion? "It would be prudent to take out
some insurance with silver and gold bullion coins, especially at
today's attractive prices." |
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| Y2K demand creates wild
swings in precious metals premiums |
| Here are 5 simple rules
to help you profit from "the premium game" when you invest in gold,
silver, or platinum. The premium is the difference between the price
of the metal in a particular form, such as bags, bars, and bullion
coins, and the fundamental price of the metal. In some situations,
changes in the premium are far more significant than fundamental
price changes. |
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| "It's the coin" and the
holder |
The auction of the SS Brother Jonathan treasure coins was the perfect
laboratory in which to test whether buyers base their bids solely
on grade, or study the individual coins. At this auction, there
were 501 mint state 1865-S US $20 Gold pieces. These Double Eagles
were graded MS60 through MS66 by PCGS. If the 142 MS64s, for example,
were bought by the holder, each coin would have gone for
the same, or close to the same, price. But the highest priced coin
went for more than twice as much as the lowest price coin in the
same grade! |
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| ARTICLE SUMMARIES
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Quality vs.
Price
Finding the right balance...
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$1.2 million
Double Eagle
Saint-Gaudens smashes the $1 million barrier for a
US gold coin at auction...
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Is Wall Street
fixing the price of gold?
with help from the Fed, the IMF, and the Bank of England...?
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Business is
hopping at the U.S. Mint
Meet kermit the spokesfrog for the new 50 states Quarter
Program. But that's not all the exciting things the U.S. Mint is
doing these days...
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S.S. Brother
Jonathan treaure-trove
Gleaming 1860s golden rarities raised from the ocean
floor to the auction block
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Prooflike
Morgan Silver Dollars
Beautiful and valuable cameos for collectors and investors
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The Most Beautiful
coins of the century
The latest entries from Germany and Finland, beautiful
bimetallic gold and silver coins...
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Gold at a
20-year low
Should you buy now?
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Polar Bear
goes platinum
Now this splendid symbol of Canada and the Arctic
will appear on Canada's platinum bullion coins...
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Internet watch:
Numismedia
The independent grading services made "sight-unseen
trading" possible - Numismedia is out to make it work...
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Inside the
Grading Services
Coins go in, slabs come out. What happens behind the
locked doors?
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