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Coin Market Fundamentals: What is Security Worth?

Jul 31, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

What is security worth? There are many factors that drive rare-coin and bullion markets. Inflation, interest rates, oil prices, and world unrest are just some of many possible factors that might influence the prices of bullion metals – or any other product, for that matter. These often-extraneous factors, while they certainly influence our buying decisions, often cloud our judgment. Currently, it’s all about the gold.
1925 Fort Vancouver Commemorative Half Dollar

Jul 22, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

The U.S. Mint issued four commemorative half dollars issued for 1925 that include the California, Lexington, Stone Mountain, and Fort Vancouver coins. All reach their centennial anniversary in 2025, and all are desirable coins for collectors. But the miniscule distribution of only 14,966 total coins for the Fort Vancouver Half Dollar explains much in regard to the current scarcity and price of the issue.
Nickel: The Other Precious Metal

Jul 11, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

United States five cent coinage has been popularly known as the “nickel” virtually since its inception as circulating money back in the 1860s. While the silver half dime was struck through 1873, the moniker “nickel” for the five-cent coin with the Shield design was met with almost immediate acceptance. Let’s delve a little further into nickel – the metal, that is. Why was it first utilized? Why did it see such widespread embrace? And why does it continue to be an integral part of our U.S. coinage?
1925 Stone Mountain Commemorative Half Dollar

Jul 10, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

My endeavors to write about the four U.S. commemorative coins of 1925 ahead of their centennial anniversary lead me to the 1925 Stone Mountain Half Dollar. I’ve written about the 1925-S California Jubilee and the 1925 Lexington Concord Half Dollar in prior articles. The California and Lexington issues were quite successful.
1925-S California Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Half Dollar Turning 100

Jul 9, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

In 2025, we will be celebrating the centennial anniversaries of four of the most iconic U.S. commemorative half dollars. A century earlier, in 1925, the United States Mint issued four different commemorative half dollars, including the California, Lexington, Stone Mountain, and Vancouver issues. The 1925 California Half Dollar: A Truly Classic Coin Let’s first look at the 1925-S California Half Dollar – a coin with which I’ve been fascinated for decades.
As I See It, Numismatics is a Family Affair

Jul 5, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

Some folks will remember the hit CBS sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971. Actors Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot starred as two bachelors who suddenly found themselves surrogate parents of three children whose parents were killed in a car crash. The television family exuded warmth and love, both which felt real even to my brother and me when we watched this show as children.
A Coin Collector Needs to Collect Coins

Jul 2, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

I’ve always believed in building several coin sets at once to allow a multitude of options. I like to suggest building what I might call an “advanced” collection and then a “play money” collection, so to speak. Let me explain… I’ve known collectors who will be working on some really great, high-end PCGS Registry Sets that may be missing only two to four coins each. But these missing coins are quite challenging and costly.
How Coin Collectors and Coin Dealers Can Maximize Security and Peace of Mind When Traveling

Jun 28, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

As a teenage collector, I would lie awake for hours on nights before the coin show, too keyed up to sleep. I love coin shows. Fifty years later, I still get excited, but I also realize just how fortunate I have been in terms of maximizing security and avoiding theft during my career. You might say I’ve been lucky. On any given weekend there is a coin show somewhere in the continental United States.
Coin Market Fundamentals: Don’t Lose Focus on Value

Jun 27, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

Some of our readers are curious about coins left by a family member. Others are interested in buying rare coins or bullion items. We all have different reasons for being interested in numismatics. The great news is that once you know what you want to look for, PCGS can help. Our responsibility is to educate our readers, and today, the matter of value is an area I really want to focus on. It seems the rare coin market is often at the mercy of the bullion metals markets and the capital involved.
Market Matters: The Goal-Oriented Collector

Jun 25, 2024 | pcgs.com | Victor Bozarth

While we have little control over the numismatic market, we do have a choice when buying to focus on quality. Focus on what you can control. Long-term success is most often built one brick at a time, regardless of what your “brick” might be. Achieving longterm success in anything is often a mundane exercise of chipping away at a job, project, problem, or shortcoming until we get a handle on it.