American Buffalo Gold Bullion 24 Karats

Adding American Buffalo gold bullion to your portfolio is a safe and valuable investment. It is also known as the American Buffalo gold proof coin. This American Buffalo gold proof coin was first made available for public sale back in June 2006, which immediately made it the first government minted coin for public trading of pure 24 karat gold. Gold proof at 24 karats is as pure as you can get.

On its initial year of debut, the2006 American Buffalo gold coin was valued at approximately 800 US dollars. Currently, the now famous coin has a face value of about 50 US dollars. This is due to the fact that in 2005 the Presidential One Dollar Coin Act was enacted and responsible for the production of this gold proof coin by requiring a coin be made with a face value of 50 US dollars and a content of 1 oz of 24-karat gold. Only 300,000 of these 2006 American Buffalo gold coins were ever minted. Furthermore, the government enforced another limit of only 10 coins per household allowed which instantly made them a highly sought after collector's item.

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Yellowstone 5 Oz Silver Coin

Yellowstone National Park 5 Oz Silver Uncirculated Coin has been released. The Yellowstone five ounce coin has a mintage limit of 27,000, like all of the 2010-dated strikes that will be sold in 2011. This collector uncirculated coin contains 5 oz of 99.9% silver.

Yellowstone National Park Silver Uncirculated Coin is the second in a series of collectible five ounce silver issues produced by the United States Mint.

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Reverse Proof Silver Eagle: Rare Mintage Makes This Coin A Hot Commodity

Reverse Proof Silver Eagle was minted only in 2006 to celebrate the American Silver Eagle program's 20th anniversary year. This coin is a hot commodity among coin collectors and investors due to its uniqueness and super low mintage numbers.

The standard silver bullion eagle coin has a mirror-smooth field while the famous Walking Liberty design and other marks are frosted. The "reverse" is true with the Reverse Proof Silver Eagle: the devices are mirrored and the background field offers a frosted finish.

This bullion coin has realized excellent gains in market value in the relatively short time it has been bought and sold.

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Elizabeth II Gold Coin

Gold sovereign came into existence in 1489 under King Henry VII, with a value of one pound sterling. The obverse design showed the King (sovereign) seated facing on a throne and that is how new coin gained its name - the sovereign. From 1953, gold sovereign features Queen Elizabeth II on the observe.

The reverse featured a shield on a large double Tudor rose. Sovereigns were then struck for Henry VIII, and for most monarchs until the first coinage of James I.

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2011 National Parks Silver Quarter Set

2011 edition of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set features the second release of five quarters in the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.  These coins struck in lustrous 90 percent silver, also known as “coin silver”. In 2011, national park sites being featured are

* Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania,
* Glacier National Park in Montana,
* Olympic National Park in Washington,
* Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi,
* Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma.

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Platinum Bullion Mintage – Key Countries And Years

Before we go to platinum bullion mintage, let me explain what a mintage means. A mintage means a number of coins specific denominations struck in a given year. This word usually applies to all coins regardless to their metal composition and some are what have been called collector coins.

One of the platinum bullion mintage is the platinum Eagle coins. Usually the mintage coins either platinum, silver or gold has their own regular versions of coins in all denominations, proof version of the coins in all denomination and as well as the collectible uncirculated versions of the coins in all denominations.

Figures are marked with asterisk and the numbers are based on recent sales data. Some is with unaudited US mint sales data where in it differs from the final figures when released by the US mint.

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2010 National Parks Silver Quarter Set

Beginning in 2010, the United States Mint issued new quarter-dollars featuring national site designs depicted on the reverse (tails side) of the coins. A restored version of the familiar 1932 John Flanagan portrait of George Washington featured on the obverse (heads) of each coin.

The 2010 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Silver Proof Set, the first annual set of this exciting series, contains five coins each struck in lustrous 90 percent silver which honor

* Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas;
* Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming;
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American Platinum Eagle Coins

platinum-eagle-coin The United States government first issued the American Platinum Eagle Coins in 1997, which was more than a decade after initial production of the Gold and Silver American Eagles. These unique coins quickly became the number one platinum bullion coin in the world and the designs featured are entirely new.

Un-circulated American Platinum Eagle coins are all struck at the United States West Point Mint in New York. Although normally none of the un-circulated pieces carry mintmarks there was an exception that occurred in 1999 when the one-tenth ounce and quarter ounce proof dies bearing the 'W' mint mark were prepared by mistake. These 1999-W un-circulated coins are extremely scarce and avid collectors have them at the top of their want lists.

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