What every coin collector should know, any doesn’t, about keeping your valuable safe while at home or traveling.

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What every coin collector should know, any doesn’t, about keeping your valuable safe while at home or traveling.

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Israel Coins and Medals Corp. – Jonah and the Whale 10 New Shequalim, Silver, KM# 477
German Federal Ministry of Finance – Unity 10 Euro, Silver, KM# 290
Bank of Latvia – 20th Anniversary of Modern Republic 1 Lats, silver, KM# 113
National Bank of Ukraine – Pottery 10 Hryven, silver, KM# 605
Monnaie de Paris – Mother Teresa 10 Euro, silver, KM# 1695
Italian State Mint – Arts of Europe Sweden, 20 Euro, gold, KM# 335
National Bank of Hungary – Orseg National Park 5000 Forint, silver, KM# 820
Mint of Finland – Children and Creativity 20 Euro, Silver, KM# 1532
United States Mint – Boy Scouts One Dollar, silver, KM# 480
China Gold Coin Corp – Chinese Grotto Art 300 Yuan, Silver, KM# 1950
Royal Mint – London Olympics 2012 – Olympic Strength 5 Pounds, Silver, KM# 1155
National Bank of Belarus – Battle of Gruenwald 50 Roubles, Silver, KM# 270
Andorra Mint – Gabriel and Mary Christmas Coin 25 Diners, Gold, KM# 288
Perth Mint – Discover Australia Koala 15 Dollars, Silver, KM # 1405
Mint of Poland – 65th Anniversary of Auschwitz Libertion 10 Zlotych, Silver, Y# 713
Austrian Mint – Erzberg in Styria 10 Euro, silver, KM # 3185
Coin Invest Trust acting as agent for the country of Cameroon Shroud of Turin 1000 Francs, silver, KM# 38
Japan Mint – Aomori Prefecture 100 yen, silver, Y# 168
South African Mint – World Cup 1 Rand, gold, KM# 508
Royal Canadian Mint – Remembrance Day Poppy One Dollar, Silver, KM# 1050

One Coin is Never Enough

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The past month the coin market has been dominated by precious metals, especially silver with a near parabolic rise to just under $50 followed by a 30 percent correction. Much of this was speculation as the silver to gold ratio went from 40 to 1 down to 30 to 1. I suspect before this bull goes to slaughter we will again see this type of action.

The coin market is a smaller market. It is far less manipulated by speculators and wild rumors. Ironically, because it is smaller it is indicative of real value because it requires a lot of work to manipulate and big speculators are not interested in markets where they can’t invest multi-millions at a time.

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The greatest action has been in both Morgan and Peace dollars and the leader has been ironically the more common 1921 Morgan dollar. One West Coast buyer purportedly has been trying to assemble one million coins. Now not to say the other Morgan dollars were lagging, but the 1921 is almost on par with the less common earlier dates. Peace dollars have participated very strongly as well achieving prices nearly equal to their older sisters again somewhat contrary to actual relative scarcity. Mint State dollars of both series have soared after many years of near stagnant prices. MS-62 and MS-63 dollars have virtually doubled in value and the MS-64 and MS-65 coins have added better than 60 percent to their price tags.

The real value today lies in those issues where a premium of 10-40 percent once existed and now they are at or near par with the more common issues. There is also extremely good value to be had in better date issues where they were once double or triple common-date Mint State issues and now may be as little as a 30-50 percent premium.

One could also apply this same rationale to many of the Mint State U.S. gold type coins, where one can find $20 Saint-Gaudens graded MS-62 at near 10 percent over bullion value. The real trick in this area of the market is to find the mintmarked or earlier dates at just a little more premium. These items will often represent a scarcity of 50 or 100 to 1 over the most common issues.

Indian Head $10 gold issues are good values as date and as type coins. When gold was one-third today’s price the Indian Head eagle was at a $100 premium to the Liberty Head variety and today that premium is much less in grades up to MS-62. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see extreme value here.

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I am glad that it is finally warm enough to be outside and to have a three-day weekend to enjoy the outdoors.

However, in the back of my mind, I know that other hobbyists like to slack off in the summer, too. That always runs the risk of a summer slowdown for the numismatic commercial sector if too many of us decide to take vacations.

Some years when the coin market is hot, hot, hot, it does not slow down at all in the summer.

We have had a number of these active summers in recent years.

Will our run of luck continue?

You never know.

Just in case, perhaps the American Numismatic Association should set up a collector vacation clearinghouse.

No more than 1/12th of all collectors will be allowed to take a vacation in any given month. That way the economic impact of our absences on dealers will be evenly spread throughout the year.

No?

OK. Be stubborn, then, but enjoy your time off whenever you take it.