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Prices for precious metals split on Friday and for the week. Silver was alone with both gains on the day and week. Gold, meanwhile, rose slightly on Friday and closed the week nearly flat. Ending higher for a third straight session following five consecutive losses, gold for December tacked on $8.40, or 0.5%. to $1,754 […]

Money products from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) are again delayed. The BEP’s main task is to manufacture Federal Reserve notes for circulation. The bureau also offers products for collectors, like engraved prints, sheets of uncut currency, and "lucky money" notes with unique serial numbers. Collectible BEP releases for 2021 and then again in 2022 […]

Precious metals settled higher on the last day of trading before Thanksgiving, posting increases ranging from 0.1% for palladium to 1.5% for silver. The metals added slightly to their gains in after-hours dealings when minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting were released. Rising for a second session following five straight losses, gold for December […]

The U.S. Mint introduced one product last week, their reverse proof set of $1 coins celebrating innovations in Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The Mint’s latest sales figures show how the set performed in the early going. Released Nov. 14 for $28, the four-coin set handily claimed the top spot among products sold for […]

Precious metals registered modest gains on Tuesday, led by a 0.9% increase in silver. Gold’s advance was its first in six sessions. Gold for December edged up 30 cents, or 0.02%. to settle at $1,739.90 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. "The metals [gold and silver] are getting a […]

The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation (www.ACEFonline.org) recently conducted an eight-hour class, "Counterfeit Coin and Precious Metals Investigations" to 35 Kansas and Missouri local, state and federal law enforcement investigators. Participants in the ACEF seminar were shown examples of fake numismatic items during the training session held in the Kansas City suburb of Mission, Kansas. "This educational […]

In kicking off the new trading week on Monday, platinum rose slightly, palladium tumbled, and gold and silver declined more modestly. Ending lower for a a fifth straight session, gold for December lost $14.80, or 0.8%. to settle at $1,739.60 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The settlement was […]

Business executive and lifelong numismatist John Feigenbaum has been selected by the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org) Board of Directors to become the non-profit organization’s next Executive Director. He will begin a transition period in January with PNG’s long-time Executive Director Robert Brueggeman who will be retiring in 2023 after 28 years. Brueggeman, 78, has been […]

Stack’s Bowers Galleries is honored to have been selected to auction the coin collection of the late T. Boone Pickens, influential businessman and financier. Pickens gained recognition in the 1980s through his impact on the oil industry and eventually earned the nickname "Oracle of Oil." He went on to apply his expertise in many other […]

In precious metals action, all but silver declined on Friday, and they all fell on the week. Weekly losses were sizable for silver, platinum and palladium and small for gold. Ending lower for a a fourth straight session, gold for December retreated $8.60, or 0.5%. to settle at $1,754.40 an ounce on the Comex division […]