Here's an interesting excerpt from an article "The Nightmare German Inflation" which about hyper inflation in Germany in the 1920's: Foreign Exchange: Those who held funds in dollars, pounds or other stable currencies, or in gold, saved their capital. The government set up rigid exchange c...

Here's an interesting excerpt from a recent commentary by the American Gold Exchange: Classic U.S. and European gold coins gaining We’ve just returned from the latest major national coin show, this time the Long Beach Coin Expo in California. After attending this show for almost 30 years, we can une...

U.K. Royal Mint Doubles Gold Output as Demand Swells By Thomas Biesheuvel and Nicholas Larkin Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s Royal Mint, established in the 13th century, doubled production of gold coins in the second quarter as demand surged for bullion to diversify investments. Output climbed to ...

If selling on eBay, spot market price plus $100 or so.

Looks like the volume of sales of TPG coins (ICCS, PCGS, CCCS and NGC) is down about 20% from 2007, but prices are holding. In some cases (i.e., variety coins), prices are doing well.

I looked at some of the most recent pricing info I have from eBay, and its hard to tell if there is a change in pricing. More trades are needed. Just a slow week perhaps?

Here's an interesting video on how Canadian coins were made about the year 1920:

http://www.archive.org/details/how_money_is_made

Notice that bag of BU 1 cent coins at the end....

For those buying or selling gold, here is a good price indicator to watch:

http://www.usagold.com/amk/abcs-gold-ra ... cator.html

Its the first I have heard of it and it looks promising. Within the next three months or so, we will see how well it works. At least its good for a good laugh...

Yep, prices are all over the place. This was a good exercise to illustrate the dynamics of the market - especially for varieties. But something similar can even occur for mainstream coins. It seems that few collectors are aware of this. If you take the average of all the trades of this coin and use ...

Yep, even lower. Now at $1.00. With shipping - $3.00 US or about $3.75 CDN. That's a drop in price of about 87%. And this is the reality of the market. How do you price it? With a price that's all over the place. Yet these are real trades. If you say its worth $3.37 CDN the person who paid $30.00 CD...

After just 2 weeks, the price has now crashed on this variety:

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Variety-1999-R ... dZViewItem

Now down to $13.50 US with shipping charges included (or about $16.90 CDN). That's a drop of about 44% in just two weeks. Welcome to the world of varieties.

Here are some interesting stats from eBay on listings based on decade: 1810's . . . 32 . . . . 0.2% 1820's . . . 19 . . . . 0.1% 1830's . . . 44 . . . . 0.3% 1840's . . . 48 . . . . 0.4% 1850's . . . 201 . . . 1.5% 1860's . . . 186 . . . 1.4% 1870's . . . 300 . . . 2.2% 1880's . . . 441 . . . 3.2% 1...

Some nice recent trades of the Guitar Strings variety - both in MS65 color of RED:



http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... :IT&ih=003


http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... :IT&ih=003

The first one came in at $255.00 CDN and the second one came in at $250.00 CDN.

This is also and up and coming variety.

Oh. I see. Duh.... The Yukon label is just for the type of coin the die crack appears on.....

The Yukon quarter is for a specific area of territory in Canada, referred to as the Yukon. Any appearance of the design looking like a die break is unintended. The design itself is of mountains and a glacier.