Posted in general on Apr 13th, 2011 Comments Off on What’s a jewelerysmith to do!?
Rising cost of silver and and gold has had a hit on crafters, jewelers and metalsmiths alike. Even the once ubiquitously cheap copper is no match for the ever moving market forces. One might threaten to just melt down some Peace dollars in spite just to get raw material for projects. Considering the cost of […]
Posted in general on Jul 21st, 2010 Comments Off on Coin Dealers Flipping
Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those […]
Posted in general on May 27th, 2010 Comments Off on Harry Eccleston: artist and banknote designer
Harry Eccleston worked for more than 25 years as a banknote designer at the Bank of England and was best known for the series D notes, issued in 1978 and the first fully pictorial series. Eccleston’s portrait of the Queen was on the front of the notes and his drawings of Isaac Newton (£1), the […]
Posted in general on Mar 17th, 2010 Comments Off on Shamrock Coin
Print your own ABS 3D Coin. It’s a coin with a shamrock on it. Happy St.Patty’s Day. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2006 Perfect for printing in green ABS!
Posted in general on Mar 5th, 2010 Comments Off on Pricing Silver Today
It is hard to affirm what the cost of a silver coin is today. Silver dollars were first issued in the United States of America in 1794. Nevertheless, not all coins are of high value though they have a long history. The US mint used to issue a large number of silver money. But nowadays […]
Posted in general on Jun 17th, 2009 Comments Off on Coin shrinking with high voltage in slow motion
Coin Shrinking from Jeremy Ruhland on Vimeo. Check out Bert Hickman’s “Makin’ Small Change†and Shrinker Gallery Discharging about 10 kV (15,000 joules!) from enormous 300 µF capacitors the team at Hackerbot Labs “Turn half dollars into quarters! Turn quarters into dimes! Turn dimes into little semi-molten balls of metal!” with their custom built apparatus […]
Posted in general on Jun 15th, 2009 Comments Off on Collectible Investments: American Eagle Silver Proof Dollars
Interesting (personal+anecdotal) article about the value of an investment in American Eagle Silver Proof Dollars. It may or may not work out in the end unless you have a complete set or if you are looking to trade in buillion market values buying in on the lows and hoarding until you can make a standard […]
Posted in general on Apr 24th, 2009 Comments Off on WWF: Coins
Way cool idea to raise funds and increase awareness. Although something would need to be done to accommodate non-magnetic coins but a great concept. WWF: Coins from CCW – Lab on Vimeo.
Posted in general on Apr 1st, 2009 Comments Off on Bi-Metallic Coins
Core77 follows up their recent write-up on Production Methods with a quick overview on bi-metallic coins. If you’ve ever wondered how they make bimetallic coins, here’s the process. They start by punching a hole through a coin blank, or planchet. The core will be remelted for another batch, and the remaining part becomes the “ring,” […]
Posted in general on Mar 30th, 2009 Comments Off on “Minister of Industrial Design”
Here’s a cool set of self-promotion coins following the likeness of the designer but looking oddly familiar to those coins from Liberia…Â Dan “Minister of Industrial Design” Ballou’s business cards, which aren’t cards at all, but metal coins. Fresh! These new business “coins” have dropped and they’re getting a good reaction. The dollar might be […]
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