DESERT MOON NUMISMATICS

CSNS Convention Next Week Desertmoonnm.com desertmoonnm@yahoo.com Hi Folks, Well here we are at the preview for the CSNS Convention in Schaumburg, IL at the Rennaissance Hotel and Convention Center. The activities will start next Wednesday for me, going to the PNG Dealer Day, then at 4 pm, Dealer Set-Up. Then on Thursday and Friday it will be time for everyone to come in and see coins. The show does go on Saturday but my experience is that the folks that show u

Matte Proof Lincoln Cents Desertmoonnm.com Hi Folks, As we near the next big show, the Central States Numismatic Society annual convention, we are generally in ‘hoard’ mode for new cool coins at Desert Moon. We have purchased quite a few newps since the March Newsletter, and these will be discussed in the CSNS pre-show April Newsletter sometime next week. For this edition of the Cool Coin Showcase, we will talk about, and present to you, 2 Lincoln Matte Proofs. Besides

New Inventory and the Copper Queen Mine Desertmoonnm.com desertmoonnm@yahoo.com Hi Folks, Welcome to the beginning of Spring edition. We just came back from Bisbee, Arizona. The objective was to do some hiking in the hills around the town, peruse the townsite, and to visit the Copper Queen Mine. Bisbee is located in southeast Arizona in arid desert and mountain country. Mining was established in the area in the 1870s for deposits of copper, that also contained gold and sil

Dahlonega Desertmoonnm.com Hi Folks, Dahlonega. A small town in Georgia that happened to have a branch mint from 1838 to 1861. It was founded, along with the Charlotte mint to support mining operations in the Appalachian Mountains. The Carolinas, Georgia and surrounding areas were having a gold rush in the 1830’s. In those days it was a dangerous task to take your mined metals all the way to Philadelphia and it was a journey of many days. So congress authoriz

Why Collect Coins in Old Holders Desertmoonnm.com Hi Folks, We are offering 5 fresh gold examples in Old Green Holders (OGH). All 5 are Gen 3.1 Holders that were used from 1993 to 1998 by PCGS. That means any coins preserved in them were put in these holders from 28 to 33 years ago. Earlier OGHs and Rattlers were used from the beginning of PCGS in 1986 to 1993. Coins in these holders, and also NGC’s Fatty’s, and ANACS small white Soap Box Holders, are highly collectible a

FUN Round #2 Desertmoonnm.com desertmoonnm@yahoo.com Hi Folks, Happy Super Bowl Weekend! Here is round #2 of the newps primarily from the FUN Show. We have 16 new and cool coins to offer here and please go to the inventory page to peruse them. We still have quite a few to get on the site, and we will do that over the next month. This will include several Cool Coin Showcases, and one Newsletter presenting a whole bunch of gold coins. Please stay tuned for tha