Entries by ReededEdge

Some Thoughts on Numismatics and Changing Times

By Q. David Bowers Numismatic Perspective Quite a few years ago a numismatic magazine published an article by me, stating that I was an “economist from Columbia University”. This looked nice in print, but wasn’t true. I sent the editor a correction at which time he said that he had “heard this somewhere”. In actuality, […]

What Most People Don’t Know About Gold

By Doug Casey International Speculator Historically, gold has never been viewed as a speculation. It was simply money: cash in the most basic form, It was a medium of exchange and a store of value. People did not accumulate gold because it could make them wealthy, but because it was a convenient, liquid way to […]

Philadelphia Important to Morgan Dollar Story

By Paul M. Green NUMISMATIC NEWS Morgan dollars tend to have reputations. News last week that the Goldbergs are selling a small hoard of 1894-P silver dollars couldn’t be more timely from my point of view as we work our way through the Morgan series by mint. The most historic Morgans in the minds of […]

Ostromecki Removal Due to Letter

from NUMISMATIC NEWS November 8, 2005 What was the “breach of confidentiality” that got Walter Ostromecki Jr. voted off the American Numismatic Association board? Ostromecki says it was a letter he wrote to Cliff Mishler Sept. 10. [The] Topic of that letter was to acknowledge an e-mail from Mishler, who co-chaired an ANA fund-raising effort […]

New Leaves Turning Up and Down on Wisconsin State Quarters

from The Centinel Spring 2005 Volume 53, No. 1 Written by Samuel Ernst, YN I collect state quarters and I think they are really neat! Some collectors think the state quarter program is boring and a waste of time and money. Maybe now they will change their minds! Last December, a man in Tucson, Arizona, […]

Gold an Asset of Last Resort in Time of War

from NUMISMATIC NEWS magazine February 25, 2003 Written by David L. Ganz Gold’s price has gone to six-year heights, closing in on $400 an ounce, as America is on the verge of war over Iraq. The asset of last resort with its traditional hedge against inflation. and against destruction, has kicked in, even before the […]

Dollar Prices Rise Faster Than Inflation

from NUMISMATIC NEWS magazine March 4, 2003 Written by Weimar W. White Collectors of Morgan Carson City dollars often wonder why MS-65 specimens of two dates are relatively expensive when the General Services Administration in the 1970s sold 3,949 1890-CC and 5,687 1891 -CC silver dollars to the public. Most of these coins were in […]