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John C. Hays will appear on the obverse of the 2018 TNA medal. Just about every coin collector recognizes the Texas Rangers. Few know about the individuals who served honorably in its ranks. The latest medal to be authorized by the Texas Numismatic Association puts the spotlight on one such brave individual. He is John C. Hays. His portrait will appear on the obverse of the 2018 TNA medal. According to Frank Galindo, the TNA medals officer, Hays was born Jan. 28, 1817, in Wilson County, Tennessee. In 1836, he traveled to Texas. Sam Houston had a close connection to the Hays family, so he appointed him to a company of Texas Rangers. Hays soon became a leader and led the Rangers on several important campaigns against the violent attacks by the rebellious Indians, according to Galindo. Ranger Captain Hays was one of the most daring and respected leaders of the Rangers. The companies he led were comprised of Anglos, Tejanos and Indians, who served proudly in all ranks, from pr...

You can submit your numismatic collection to Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®), Numismatic Conservation Services® (NCS®) and Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®) at 2018 Trigo Kuala Lumpur International Money Show. The Trigo Kuala Lumpur Money Show will be held March 16-18, 2018, at the Hilton Hotel in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Trigometric Sdn Bhd an Official Submission Center in Malaysia will be accepting submissions on behalf of NGC, NCS and PMG at this March 2018 show. Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®), Numismatic Conservation Services® (NCS®) and Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®) company representatives will attend the Trigo Kuala Lumpur Money Show and can answer questions and explain the companies' benefits. During 2017 Trigo Kuala Lumpur Money Show, PMG Finalizer Bruce Thornton attended the show and conducting free evaluations of paper money . Last year, there is a limit of 10 notes per person for the free evaluations to make sure that as many people as possible can ge...

Record-breaking gold 100 ducat of Zygmunt III Wasa dated 1621 (KM-H43, Friedberg 72) that sold for $2,160,000 in EF at CNG’s Triton New York sale. (Image courtesy CNG) The Classical Numismatic Group’s January sale, Triton XXI, was an outstanding success. The 1,597 lots achieved a clearance rate of 98.22 percent to realize a total of $14,971,166 – including a 20 percent buyers’ premium. A quick scan of results indicate some 245 lots sold in excess of $10,000 apiece, of which nine took in excess of $100,000. But the show stopper was Lot 1127: a gold 100 ducat of Zygmunt III Wasa [Sigismund III Vasa] dated 1621 (KM-H43, Friedberg 72). The 70 mm, 349.49 g intricately detailed coin was struck to commemorate Poland’s victory over the Ottoman Empire at Khotyn [Chocim]. It is one of the largest European gold coins ever produced. The engraver was Samuel Ammon. A total of just six specimens are known of this piece. All six come from a single pair of dies. The example offered at CNG arrive...

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Prior to 1947, hundreds of Princely States existed in India which were not formally ruled by the British, but rather by a local or regional ruler. These vassal states, also called native states, were subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British Crown. Along with status, size and wealth differences, Princely State coins varied vastly as well. However, not all Princely States issued their own coins. Check out the ones that did: Coins of Alwar : The first mint of Alwar was situated at Rajgarh where these Indian Princely state coins were struck from 1772 to 1877 and thereafter at Calcutta. Shedan Singh and his succeeding rulers struck coins in their own name as well as the name of the Queen. However, Pratap Singh and Bakhtawar’s coins bore the name of Shah Alam while Bani Singh’s coins portrayed the name of Muhammad Bahadur   Coins of Arcot : The earliest coins were struck in the name of Mughal Emperors. After th...

If you want a catchword for this market, I would use “weakness.” Low grade and common date silver dollars and common date $20 double eagles in all but the loftiest grades are selling for prices barely better than their intrinsic values. Not only are prices weak, but so is the volume of sales being reported by dealers. There are coin pricing publications that concentrate on what appears on the surface to be attractive prices being realized at auctions, or at some major show, but this ignores the fact that few of these results are occurring at better than average prices, let alone new records. The coin market needs a good incentive. Perhaps it needs a good kick in the pants. Such an incentive would likely be a spike higher in the spot price of gold and silver. People don’t tend to buy when prices are low or are descending. This is likely a mistake, but nonetheless, it is a fact. For that, I guess we can blame human nature. Nobody wants to be ridiculed for buying when it seems like oth...

Here we go again. Another story about how one country is starting to go cashless and the pundits crawl out of the woodwork saying that the United States should do the same. There are a lot of reasons why this will not happen in the United States. One of the biggest reason is the overall […]