PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 5 20237:29 AM EDT Elliot Smith@ELLIOTSMITHCNBC Demand for gold among central banks notched a first-quarter record high in the three months to the end of March as overall global demand painted an otherwise “mixed picture,” according to the World Gold Council. Gold prices broke through the $2,000 per ounce barrier this week and…
It ain't political, it's structural: End the Fed, impose some external budget constraint. Until then, we uniparty right off the fiscal cliff. https://t.co/0VBEMsQdef — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) April 20, 2023
The Carson City Mint struck a substantial mintage of 115,085 Liberty double eagles in 1874, but the survival rate for the issue is below average. In The Confident Carson City Coin Collector , Rusty Goe notes less than 2% of the reported mintage is extant today, and many of those coins were repatriated from foreign holdings in recent years. The 1874-CC is popular with branch mint type collectors, but it remains an elusive issue at the AU58…
The 1912 Saint-Gaudens double eagle claims a smallish mintage of 149,750 coins. Its certified population totals in MS62 and MS63 are relatively pedestrian — about a couple thousand each — but the issue becomes more challenging in MS64, scarce in MS65, and rare in MS66 or better. What also stands out about the 1912 is its status as the only Saint issue for the year. There are no branch mint coins…
The 1861 Liberty double eagle is one of the most popular type coins among No Motto issues, struck to the extent of more than 2.9 million coins. Prior to the discovery of the S.S. Central America and its hold of thousands of 1857-S and 1856-S double eagles, the 1861 was recognized as the most plentiful Type One issue in high grade. Nonetheless, near-Gem pieces such as this one, are conditionally scarce, and finer examples are rare. Contrary to how the coin appears in…
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