2020-12-23T09:38:29-05:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
Like everyone else, you are probably searching for holiday gift ideas to please that hard-to-buy-for friend or relative. Shopping this year is even more difficult, with most of your options limited to online shopping. As we bring 2020 to a [...]
2020-12-23T09:37:21-05:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
Most major players in the rare coin market have been concerned about the COVID-19 crisis’s impact on the US economy. However, numismatics has been flourishing during these challenging times. With so many staying at home with extra time on their [...]
2020-12-23T09:34:33-05:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
During my tenure on the ANA Board of Governors, including my time as president from 2015 to 2017, the American Numismatic Association (ANA) has struggled to secure funding for its educational mission. Annual membership dues barely covered the cost of producing and shipping [...]
2020-12-23T09:28:54-05:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
Next week, Heritage Auctions will be offering the Maurice Storck Collection. Storck was a coin dealer who was active starting in the 1950s and famously attended the King Farouk sale that was held in Cairo, Egypt in 1954. When he died last year at the age of 97, [...]
2020-12-23T09:27:42-05:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
US gold coins have been a fascination of mine since the start of my career in the 1970s. Back then, there was a high demand and a significant premium over gold spot prices for common date US gold coins. We [...]
2020-09-21T15:53:43-04:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
Years ago, Charles Anderson, owner of Whitman Publishing, began a collection of US Pattern coins. The collection grew into one of the most complete ever assembled. That collection sold intact to the mega-collector Bob R. Simpson in 2007 for over $30 million — the [...]
2020-09-03T15:52:14-04:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
Consider Collecting Colonial Coins A few weeks ago, NGC announced that it had recently certified hundreds of additional colonial coins from the extraordinary collection assembled by Donald G. Partrick. NGC had certified about 350 colonial coins from the collection in 2014, and [...]
2020-08-14T10:38:07-04:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
The August sales that took place without the annual ANA show demonstrated a strong demand for quality coins By Jeff Garrett for Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) …… Last week should have been the highlight of my numismatic year. Every summer since 1974, I [...]
2020-07-15T12:54:09-04:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
Markets are being tested by the COVID-19 crisis; so far, the rare coin market is passing The internet has been one of the most significant driving forces for numismatics since the late 1990s. Indeed, the hobby has been forever changed [...]
2020-03-27T10:17:39-04:00By Jeff Garrett|Articles by Jeff Garrett|
The numismatic market is alive and well, with recent auctions proving its strength and resilience. As I write this article, most rare coin professionals and collectors around the world are sheltered in trying to weather the effects of the coronavirus [...]
