Is it time to mix up things in the numismatic marketplace? 2014 ANA Numismatist of the Year Ron Guth thinks so. He's proposed a 100-point grading system to replace the 70-point system that coin collectors have used since the 1970s.

We reach out to ask him how his system works and why he thinks it would be an improvement for the hobby.

The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins. Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our hobby... but in a market where originality, quality, and strict grading standards matters you need to know that the coins you by meet a higher standard. And coins certified by CAC have consistently brought more money at auction than coins without. So before you buy, do your homework and look for the green bean on the holder. It could make all of the difference between buying a coin that will hold its value, or even make you money, and buying a coin that might have problems not immediately evident with the grade. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

This week on the Coinweek Podcast, I am joined by Red book Editor Emeritus Ken Bressett.

Since the 1970s, Ken has helmed the most important book in the coin collecting hobby, the Red Book.

His writing and research and market knowledge has benefited generations of coin collectors and has had an immeasurable impact on the growth of the coin hobby.

Our conversation touches upon this, the shape of the market now versus then, and recaps some of Ken's most memorable moments as a numismatist.

*** The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins. Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our hobby... but in a market where originality, quality, and strict grading standards matters you need to know that the coins you by meet a higher standard. And coins certified by CAC have consistently brought more money at auction than coins without. So before you buy, do your homework and look for the green bean on the holder. It could make all of the difference between buying a coin that will hold its value, or even make you money, and buying a coin that might have problems not immediately evident with the grade. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, Peter Hug, Kitco’s Director of Global Trading joins us to give listeners a true peek behind the curtain of the precious metals market. Peter has been at the forefront of everything involved with silver and gold since 1974. He is a true pioneer in the modern precious metals industry.

Peter discusses with us the shape of the metals market today, what Generation X thinks of bullion investing, whether bitcoin will eat into the metals market, and what types of marketing BS some companies use to paint a false picture of why you should own metal. All of this and more in this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast.

*** The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins. Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our hobby... but in a market where originality, quality, and strict grading standards matters you need to know that the coins you by meet a higher standard. And coins certified by CAC have consistently brought more money at auction than coins without. So before you buy, do your homework and look for the green bean on the holder. It could make all of the difference between buying a coin that will hold its value, or even make you money, and buying a coin that might have problems not immediately evident with the grade. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

A narrow decision in the United States Supreme Court will have major implications on the way we buy and sell things over the internet.

Former Congressman Jimmy Hayes joins us for this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast to talk about efforts that are underway right now in state legislatures across the country to pass new tax and regulatory framework to businesses that operate online.

As a lobbyist for the Industry Council of Tangible Assets, Hayes has been on the front line of issues that effect the rare coin and bullion market and his insights into this developing story should open your eyes to major changes that will likely come to pass in the numismatic marketplace.

*** The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins. Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our hobby... but in a market where originality, quality, and strict grading standards matters you need to know that the coins you by meet a higher standard. And coins certified by CAC have consistently brought more money at auction than coins without. So before you buy, do your homework and look for the green bean on the holder. It could make all of the difference between buying a coin that will hold its value, or even make you money, and buying a coin that might have problems not immediately evident with the grade. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

Heidi Wastweet is an award-winning medallic artist. Over the course of her 30-year career, she has designed more than 1,000 coins, medals, and tokens, mostly for private mints.

From 2010 to 2018, Heidi sat on the CCAC, where she, along with other members of the art community and general public, deliberated on the direction of American coin and medal design. If you have bought a coin or medal from the U.S. Mint made within the past eight years, odds are that Heidi had a role to play in the design process.

What is the state of coin and medal design in America and what can be done to improve upon it?

I ask these questions and more, this week on the CoinWeek Podcast.

*** The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor! If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins. Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our hobby... but in a market where originality, quality, and strict grading standards matters you need to know that the coins you by meet a higher standard. And coins certified by CAC have consistently brought more money at auction than coins without. So before you buy, do your homework and look for the green bean on the holder. It could make all of the difference between buying a coin that will hold its value, or even make you money, and buying a coin that might have problems not immediately evident with the grade. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, former Coin World editor and head of ICTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce Beth Deisher joins us to talk about the pernicious threat that counterfeit coins pose to the coin industry.

Counterfeit coins have been a fact of life since ancient times, but today’s counterfeiters operate sophisticated factories, have a global reach, and are more motivated than ever to disrupt the marketplace for rare coins and bullion coins. The presence of these counterfeits already calls into question people’s trust in collectible and investment grade coins. If left unchecked, an explosion of fake coins could have a devastating and last effect.

What is being done about it?

We ask Beth Deisher to take us beyond the headlines and drill deep into the grim reality facing our market and hobby. We talk about scattershot enforcement, the lack of expertise on the part of law enforcement, and go over a few of the small victories that the ACTF has earned in the past year.

If you care about the issue, you will find this highly-informative Podcast illuminating.

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The CoinWeek podcast has a new sponsor!

If you have paid attention to the rare coin market or read our analysis of major coin sales in recent years, you know how CAC has changed the landscape for certified coins.

Folks, its true that he grading services do fantastic service for our hobby... but in a market where originality, quality, and strict grading standards matters you need to know that the coins you by meet a higher standard.

And coins certified by CAC have consistently brought more money at auction than coins without.

So before you buy, do your homework and look for the green bean on the holder.

It could make all of the difference between buying a coin that will hold its value, or even make you money, and buying a coin that might have problems not immediately evident with the grade.

CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

John W. Adams is a consummate collector and numismatic scholar, whose focus over many decades of activity has included studies into United States large cents, numismatic pedigree, U.S. and world medals, and in-depth research into the American numismatic auctions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

On July 14, 2018, numismatic booksellers Kolbe & Fanning will offer an important section of Adams' numismatic library at auction. The Adams' library is noteworthy, not only for its connection to Adams and his research, but also because the Adams collection contains many rare and valuable pieces, many which have not been seen on the market for decades.

In this episode of the CoinWeek podcast, returning guest David Fanning joins Charles Morgan to discuss the Adams library, why it is so important to the hobby to retain knowledge about the key dealers and major auctions of the past, and what Adams found in these many volumes that changed our understanding of the early days of coin collecting in the United States.

*** This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. PCGS has just introduced a new app for customers to check the status of their order and see their grades. It's called PCGS My Account. Visit PCGS dot com to get started. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 and 2017 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

A little more than thirty years ago, a coin dealer from California and a close circle of his dealer friends, bestowed new life upon the rare coin market with the introduction of a market-acceptable third party grading service.

But there is far more to the story of the early days of PCGS than what you know and the industry as we know it today was built because of and in spite of the ideas that went into the creation of the company.

We talk to two men who know more about it than anybody else, PCGS founders David Hall and John Dannreuther.

I ask them what they got right and what they got wrong with the concept behind PCGS and whether the industry as we know it today would even be recognizable to them back when they launched the company.

It’s an interesting 40-minute conversation and it’s coming up next on the CoinWeek Podcast…

*** This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Travel back in time to the emergence of the premier third-party coin grading company. For limited time, collectors can secure their coins with throwback versions of the first four PCGS label generations. Visit PCGS dot com slash generation series to get started. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan has an in-depth conversation with coin dealer Rob Oberth, owner of Oberth Rare Coins & Currency in Marietta, Georgia, and founder of the facebook group Coin Dealers Helping Coin Dealers.

We’ve followed this dealer to dealer trading group since its infancy and watched it grow to an active trading group with hundreds of active dealer participants. Coin Dealers Helping Coin Dealers is an social media trading and communication group that connects local dealers to other dealers from across the country, establishing a venue for the real-time appraisal and sale of merchandise as it comes through the door.

It is, if you will, an opportunity for instant capitalization and sale of rare and not so rare coins.

The Coin Dealers Helping Coin Dealers group has created quite a buzz at many a coin show and many private conversation we’ve had with dealers over the course of the past year, which informs us that this group has real potential to add a dynamic element to the back end of the coin industry, which for smaller localized dealers, has been sorely lacking.

How does this group impact you as a collector? We’ll ask Rob and find out… next on the CoinWeek Podcast.

*** This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Travel back in time to the emergence of the premier third-party coin grading company. For limited time, collectors can secure their coins with throwback versions of the first four PCGS label generations. Visit PCGS dot com slash generation series to get started. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.

The world mints create thousands of collector coins each year, many push the limit of what we have long considered the definition of coin and good taste.

In the US, however, the same staid process that has culminated in a generation of boring coin design continues apace.

How can the CCAC, the CFA, Treasury, and the Mint's most talented artists combine to create coins that often leave collectors wanting?

Former CCAC Chair Gary Marks returns to the CoinWeek Podcast and provides illuminating commentary on where the process might be going wrong, while CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan tries to put together his thoughts on how to make things better.

*** This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Travel back in time to the emergence of the premier third-party coin grading company. For limited time, collectors can secure their coins with throwback versions of the first four PCGS label generations. Visit PCGS dot com slash generation series to get started. CoinWeek is the #1 website online for news and information about numismatics. The CoinWeek Podcast was the 2016 NLG Winner for Best Audio Program. CoinWeek has also won the NLG Award for best numismatic website 5 years running! Copyright © CoinWeek 2018 COINWeek is the most advanced independent on-line media source for print and video Rare Coin and Currency news; with analysis and information contributed by leading experts across the numismatic spectrum. More news and videos about coin collecting at CoinWeek.