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Every issue of Numismatic News is like a personal letter to every collector who subscribes to tell him or her what is new about the hobby this week. A great deal rests on the FUN convention every year. Strong business yields weeks of high levels of market activity. Weak business puts everyone into a funk.How do you like our weekly online poll questions? I have learned a lot of reader views this year as a result of their responses to our online questions.
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 Many collectors know the story of the 1804 dollars struck for the king of Siam and the sultan of Muscat. They were gifts to rulers with whom America was currying favor in hopes of opening up new trading relations. Hmm. Sounds like 2008, doesn’t it? I bought my first proof set from the Mint when the 1969 issue was put on sale by the U.S. Mint Nov. 1, 1968. The set sold out in just six days.Well, my brother turned 51 during the week that this issue was being produced. I attended a family birthday party that his wife had arranged. One of the people in attendance was my 11-year-old grandnephew. He is at the prime age to have an interest in every sort of thing, including collectibles. Perhaps the U.S. Mint should volunteer to be the sending agent for the Treasury’s next round of economic stimulus checks to collectors. That might make collectors unanimously pleased with what the Mint is doing. Don’t you just love the radio commercials that have the rapidly spoken disclaimers at the end? I thought of that after I posted my blog Nov. 10. It announced the Mint was having a clearance sale Call it strange, but I have found the design of the new Martin Van Buren Presidential dollar compelling. I think it is the best full-facing coin portrait the Mint has yet done. I have had some interesting questions tossed my way about gold in recent weeks by a beginner. I don’t have all the answers, or even enough space here, but it sure got my mental wheels turning. |
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