The historic 1979 Nobel Prize gold medal for chemistry awarded to Professor Georg Wittig (1897—1987) of Germany will be offered by Heritage Auctions www.Ha.com on October 19, 2016 as part of Heritage’s two-day Historical Manuscripts Grand Format Auction. Four other gold medals awarded over the years to Prof. Wittig are also being offered together with … Read more
August 27, 2016 Thomas Gintz, owner of A&E Coin in Dover , Ohio had attended the Blue Ridge Numismatic Association coin show in Dalton, GA. After leaving the show he drove approximately 150 miles and stopped at a restaurant in Lenoir City, TN. Gintz was in the restaurant for approximately 20-30 minutes. Upon returning to … Read more
The concept of an American Numismatic Association was born in the state of Michigan. ANA founder George F. Heath, M.D., of Monroe, Michigan, was one of the first to suggest the establishment of a national association of coin collectors. Heath began publishing a monthly paper—The Numismatist—in 1888, which was devoted entirely to the numismatic hobby. … Read more
Whitman Publishing announces that the fifth edition of Q. David Bowers’s Guide Book of Morgan Silver Dollars is temporarily sold out due to high demand. More copies are scheduled to arrive in mid-October. “Collectors can call our Customer Service number at 1-800-546-2995 to order their copy of the book, and it will be shipped immediately … Read more
The United States Mint is at the center of American coin collecting. It is the wellspring, the mother lode, of the little copper, silver, and gold objects of material culture that numismatists collect, study, and catalog. The Mint is the sole manufacturer of the nation’s legal-tender coinage, and its products are used every day by … Read more
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) and Stack’s Bowers Galleries have identified a new variety of California Fractional Gold. The 1854 Octagonal California Gold Dollar was recently submitted to NGC for attribution and grading. California Fractional Gold Pieces were struck by private mints in California in order to fill a need for smaller denominations in commerce. The … Read more