On the way back from Europe last month, a collector friend of mine had a stopover in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. While there, he dropped by one of the local Gold souqs (or markets) with the inten...

If you’re from Sydney and have been collecting coins for longer than twelve months, you’d have heard about the Petersham Coin Show. Although it’s not as glamorous as the annual ANDA Coin Shows, ...

Unlike previous years, the Melbourne ANDA Coin Show was held at the Dallas Brooks Centre just off Victoria Parade on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD. I arrived early, a few minutes before doors opened, ...

Hot off the dies are the Royal Mint’s latest issues from India. Following on from last year’s success, the Mint, in partnership with MMTC-PAMP, has issued gold sovereigns for the year 2014, all ma...

It’s been a long time coming, but PCGS now recognises the very popular 2000 millennium fifty cent incused flag variety.

I haven’t visited the Easter Show RAM mobile press in years, but as I was in the area last week, I thought I’d drop by and say hello.

The Singapore International Coin Fair is held every year at the end of March in one of Singapore’s premier hotels, Marina Bay Sands. As one of the biggest coin shows in the Asia-Pacific region, the ...

The subject of confirming if a George V penny has a London or Indian obverse, to the non-enthusiast, may seem trivial. However, when the outcome of this distinction may make hundreds or thousands of d...

The most famous mule coin observed in the pre-decimal series is the 1916-I halfpenny, where an Indian Quarter Anna obverse die was paired with an Australian Commonwealth halfpenny reverse. The planche...

If you collect 2000 one dollar mule coins, look no further. I just picked up an example of this popular coin graded PCGS MS64—the equal-finest graded by PCGS to date. The coin has full lustre, great...

Fairly current examples of these first two categories spring to mind are the $2 fake coins that appeared a couple of years ago and date altered pre-decimal coins such as 1923 halfpennies and 1930 penn...

Last October 2013, while on a coin buying trip to the United Kingdom, I had the opportunity to visit two coin exhibits at the Tower of London. The first exhibit, called Coins and Kings: The Royal Mint...

Most collectors are familiar with the Dansco press-in album. For those who aren’t, the Dansco press-in album was a type of coin album collectors used to build coin sets. The album was made of cardbo...

Over the last fifteen years, the number of Australian sovereign errors I’ve seen can be counted on two hands, so when I was offered the opportunity to acquire an 1872 Melbourne shield sovereign that...

Like London itself, the Coinex Coin Show, held in the Kingdom’s capital each September, was a hive of activity. Although the sky the morning of the show was full of clouds, not one of the clouds was...

Of all the coin shows held throughout the year, the ANDA Sydney show has always been my favourite. This year, the show was held on the 14th and 15th of September right in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. ...

Last week, when I listed for sale a 1942-I halfpenny with the long denticles on the reverse, I got a number of emails requesting more information about this variety. Although I had uploaded a large im...

I had the unfortunate displeasure of advising a collector that four of his gold sovereigns were in fact fakes or counterfeits. I have uploaded images of these fake gold coins below so that other colle...

If you’ve collected gold sovereigns for long enough, chances are you’ve encountered a fake sovereign or two. Like their real counterparts, these fake coins resemble the real thing: They often bear...

I'm often asked about PCGS’ new Secure Plus service, which was introduced in 2010. Any collector who’s seen more than a handful of PCGS holders (also known as “slabs”) would have noticed on th...