In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to Alyssa Moen, President of International Depository Services, a subsidiary of Dillon Gage. Alyssa's company provides individual and institutional investors a safe, secure, and insured place to store their precious metals holdings. We talk about how depositories work and what type of clients they best serve.
The CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you by PCGS, the standard in the rare coin grading industry. Get facts about coins, population data, and view the web’s largest library of high-resolution coin photos and more by going to their website www.pcgs.com. This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, Barbara Howard from Women on 20s joins us to talk about Andrew Jackson, Harriet Tubman, and the Treasury Department’s 180-degree turn on changing the design of the $20 Federal Reserve Note, and why it has taken so ...
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Harlan J. Berk has just written an amazing book that covers more than one thousand years of coin production with the 2nd release of 100 Greatest Ancient Coins. In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to Harlan about the process of narrowing down his list to 100, writing the books, and his approach to making learning about history interesting to the modern reader. *** The CoinWeek Podcast is brought to you PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, Win Money, and Numismatic Glory by be...
On April 7, coin dealer Chris Lyche was alerted that his brick and mortar coin shop, GSA Coins & Jewelry, had been robbed. Despite installing a new security system and taking every available precaution, Chris' business was completely wiped out. Surveillance footage of the incident showed a seasoned thief, who seemingly knew where everything would be hidden. He was in and out fast and his getaway vehicle was non-descript and didn't have tags or plates. Chris joins us to talk about the theft a...
This episode of the NLG Award-winning CoinWeek Podcast, brought to you by PCGS. In this episode, CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan sits down Daniel Frank Sedwick to discuss highlights at his firm's upcoming treasure auction. Sedwick specializes in treasure, gold cobs, silver cobs, gold ingots, silver ingots, and jewelry recovered from famous shipwrecks from the colonial Americas. In this auction, which begins on May 2, Sedwick will offer a host of important lots. We highlight four of them: an 1832 ...
CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan sits down with Great American Coin Hunt organizer Rob Oberth to discuss the success of the Great American Coin Hunt and its implications for the hobby in this episode of the NLG Award-winning CoinWeek Podcast, brought to you by PCGS. Rob tells how the effort came together and how he as surprised as we are that this idea grew into a grassroots effort to promote the hobby of coin collecting as collectors and dealers pitched in to seed our circulating coins with colle...
Collecting and investing in rare coins at the upper levels of the hobby requires more than just money, it requires considerable amounts of knowledge, patience, and a great eye for quality. In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk with Certified Acceptance Corporation (CAC) president John Albanese about a number of topics that will prove to be highly interesting to even the most seasoned numismatist. Charles asks John to explain the grade of MS62, John proposes that the current grading sy...
Even sophisticated collectors stand to benefit by having a second set of trained eyes look over prospective coins before making a purchase. In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we dig deep into the topic of auction representation and why professional numismatists have a major edge over collectors when it comes to evaluating and picking out the best coins. We talk about the difference between "potluck" coins purchased online and coins that are bought only after careful examination. We discuss...
Daniel Frank Sedwick is about to kick off its biggest treasure auction of 2018. We sit down with him to discuss cobs, coins, and ingots of the America's and what's in store for collectors at his upcoming auction. *** The CoinWeek Podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins. Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our ...
Submitting coins for grading requires patience, a talent for recognizing quality coins, and some insight into how professional graders think. In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, Editor Charles Morgan breaks down six tips that he thinks will help your submissions achieve better results, which in turn, will improve your bottom line. Of course, tips alone cannot make coins better. The coins have to all "be there" in order to make the grade, but if you want to make sure your great coins get the...
Is it time to mix up things in the numismatic marketplace? 2014 ANA Numismatist of the Year Ron Guth thinks so. He's proposed a 100-point grading system to replace the 70-point system that coin collectors have used since the 1970s. We reach out to ask him how his system works and why he thinks it would be an improvement for the hobby. The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how C...
This week on the Coinweek Podcast, I am joined by Red book Editor Emeritus Ken Bressett. Since the 1970s, Ken has helmed the most important book in the coin collecting hobby, the Red Book. His writing and research and market knowledge has benefited generations of coin collectors and has had an immeasurable impact on the growth of the coin hobby. Our conversation touches upon this, the shape of the market now versus then, and recaps some of Ken's most memorable moments as a numismatist. *** The C...
This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, Peter Hug, Kitco’s Director of Global Trading joins us to give listeners a true peek behind the curtain of the precious metals market. Peter has been at the forefront of everything involved with silver and gold since 1974. He is a true pioneer in the modern precious metals industry. Peter discusses with us the shape of the metals market today, what Generation X thinks of bullion investing, whether bitcoin will eat into the metals market, and what types of marke...
A narrow decision in the United States Supreme Court will have major implications on the way we buy and sell things over the internet. Former Congressman Jimmy Hayes joins us for this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast to talk about efforts that are underway right now in state legislatures across the country to pass new tax and regulatory framework to businesses that operate online. As a lobbyist for the Industry Council of Tangible Assets, Hayes has been on the front line of issues that effect the...
Heidi Wastweet is an award-winning medallic artist. Over the course of her 30-year career, she has designed more than 1,000 coins, medals, and tokens, mostly for private mints. From 2010 to 2018, Heidi sat on the CCAC, where she, along with other members of the art community and general public, deliberated on the direction of American coin and medal design. If you have bought a coin or medal from the U.S. Mint made within the past eight years, odds are that Heidi had a role to play in the design...
This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, former Coin World editor and head of ICTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce Beth Deisher joins us to talk about the pernicious threat that counterfeit coins pose to the coin industry. Counterfeit coins have been a fact of life since ancient times, but today’s counterfeiters operate sophisticated factories, have a global reach, and are more motivated than ever to disrupt the marketplace for rare coins and bullion coins. The presence of these counterfeits already c...
John W. Adams is a consummate collector and numismatic scholar, whose focus over many decades of activity has included studies into United States large cents, numismatic pedigree, U.S. and world medals, and in-depth research into the American numismatic auctions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. On July 14, 2018, numismatic booksellers Kolbe & Fanning will offer an important section of Adams' numismatic library at auction. The Adams' library is noteworthy, not only for its connection to ...
A little more than thirty years ago, a coin dealer from California and a close circle of his dealer friends, bestowed new life upon the rare coin market with the introduction of a market-acceptable third party grading service. But there is far more to the story of the early days of PCGS than what you know and the industry as we know it today was built because of and in spite of the ideas that went into the creation of the company. We talk to two men who know more about it than anybody else, PCGS...
This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan has an in-depth conversation with coin dealer Rob Oberth, owner of Oberth Rare Coins & Currency in Marietta, Georgia, and founder of the facebook group Coin Dealers Helping Coin Dealers. We’ve followed this dealer to dealer trading group since its infancy and watched it grow to an active trading group with hundreds of active dealer participants. Coin Dealers Helping Coin Dealers is an social media trading and communication gro...
The world mints create thousands of collector coins each year, many push the limit of what we have long considered the definition of coin and good taste. In the US, however, the same staid process that has culminated in a generation of boring coin design continues apace. How can the CCAC, the CFA, Treasury, and the Mint's most talented artists combine to create coins that often leave collectors wanting? Former CCAC Chair Gary Marks returns to the CoinWeek Podcast and provides illuminating commen...
In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to John Kraljevich. Noted expert on US Coins, Americana, a fellow alumnus of the University of Virginia, and also a candidate for the State House of South Carolina in district 26. John and I talk about cataloging the great coins in the American federal series; what his area of specialty - Americana - says to us about the American experience; and how we can take a true and accurate understanding of the hardships and struggles of each generation to ...
Better known in the wider hobby by the nom de coin “R. Tettenhorst” (which was actually the name of his secretary, to whom his packages were addressed), Bernard Edison--“Bunny” to his friends--carefully assembled his collection over a lifetime of business and civic success in the St. Louis, Missouri area. A member of the Edison family of Edison Brothers Stores fame, Bernard was born on March 23, 1928. Having graduated from Harvard University in 1949, Bernard then studied at Harvard Business Scho...
This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to Daniel Frank Sedwick, numismatist, auctioneer, and owner of Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC, the premier seller of cob and shipwreck coins in the United States. On May 15, Sedwick’s will auction a unique and historical regulated gold cob struck in Peru. We talk about the significance of this coin, cob coinage, what it’s like to collect in literal Treasure. *** This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Travel back in time to the emergence of the prem...
Distinguished numismatist Pat Heller joins Charles Morgan for this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast. Pat has always strongly advocated that people diversify their holdings with some amount of precious metals, but in the Age of Trump, will we see the political and economic winds change, making Americans more secure in the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. government? Or, should stackers continue to stack regardless of which party holds power? We also talk about why the U.S. Mint can't seem to gi...
While coin conventions focused on U.S. coins have stagnated in recent years, one area of the coin show circuit has continued to thrive: ancient and world coin shows. Whether its the New York International Numismatic Convention or the upstart Chicago Coin Expo, collectors of ancient and world coins see many benefits from buying coins in person and meeting with dealers and fellow collectors. In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to Chicago-based dealer Aaron Berk about what makes this s...
In this episode of the coinWeek podcast, we talk to Mark Stephenson, Vice President of PCGS. We ask Mark about the state of modern coin releases one quarter into 2018, how label programs have become more sophisticated in recent years, and what level of effort goes into the design of special coin holders and special PCGS insert programs. It's an insightful conversation about what is happening right now in the coin industry and shows a side of the business that collectors don't often get to hear a...
Ira Goldberg is a fifty-year veteran of the rare coin industry. Over the course of his career, Ira has handled virtually every numismatic rarity you can think of. But the project he has worked on in secret over the past fifteen years with an anonymous collector may be his most significant endeavor. Called the Tyrant Collection, this varied collection of rare and important coins spans the millennia and covers civilizations across the globe. The first part of the collection, called "Tyrants of the...
Despite barely circulating, the Susan B. Anthony dollar can still be found at your local bank for face value. The coin, struck in earnest in 1979 and 1980, and then only for collectors in 1981, was an immediate failure upon its release and stockpiled in bank vaults and the Treasury by the tens of millions. Then, without much fanfare, the coin made a one year return in 1999, at the same time that the U.S. Mint was preparing to launch the golden dollar in 2000. In this CoinWeek Podcast, based on a...
Bob Evans has been there from the start. Chief scientist and historian for the salvage and recovery effort of the famous SS Central America, "the Ship of Gold". The SS Central America sank in 1857. On board, was millions of dollars in today's value of gold and silver coins, gold ingots, and other valuable artifacts. In 2014, a second salvage of the site was conducted and the fruits of that work have yielded more than $40 million in new treasure. We talk with Bob about his life's work, how it fel...
