Educational Series

  1. Why Silver Is Suddenly Outrunning Gold

    Why Silver Is Suddenly Outrunning Gold?

    For most of the last two years, gold has dominated the preciousarmen

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  2. Gold’s Recent Slide: What It Signals for the Broader Precious Metals Market

    Gold’s Recent Slide: What It Signals for the Broader Precious Metals Market

     
     
     

    Introduction: A Surprisingarmen

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  3. Net Gold Purchases: The Top Five Countries Driving Global Gold Demand

    The World’s Largest Gold Buyers (And Why It Matters)

    China: Quietly Accumulating Massive Reserves

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  4. Gold Plated vs. Gold Filled vs. Solid 14K Gold

    Gold Plated vs. Gold Filled vs. Solid 14K Gold

    What’s the Real Difference (and What Should You Buy)armen

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  5. Natural vs. Lab-Grown Diamonds vs. Moissanite vs. Cubic Zirconia

    Natural vs. Lab-Grown Diamonds vs. Moissanite vs. Cubic Zirconia

    Understanding Value, Pricing, and Usearmen

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  6. Why Is Grading Coins Considered to Be So Difficult?

    Why Is Grading Coins Considered to Be So Difficult?

    Coin grading is the backbone of the numismatic marketplacearmen

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  7. How to Make Money in Coin Collecting

    How to Make Money in Coin Collecting

    A Practical Guide for Investors and Collectors

    Coin collecting isarmen

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  8. Morgan/Peace Silver Dollar Current Market Trend Q1 2026

    The Certified Morgan Silver Dollar Market: Where Are We Now?

    The market for certified Morgan and Peacearmen

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  9. Gold & Silver Outlook for 2026: What Investors Should Expect

    Gold & Silver Outlook for 2026: What Investors Should Expect

    A market analysis prepared for Moloian Luxuryarmen

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  10. What Can I Do With My Sterling and Coin Silver Now That Refineries Don’t Want It?

    Many collectors and estate owners have recently discovered that refineries are refusing Sterling andarmen

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  11. Precious Metals Alert: Sharp Sell‑Off in Gold & Silver

    October 21, 2025 — Gold and silver experienced one of their most significant one‑day declines in yearsarmen

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  12. No Scrap Silver Please

    No Scrap Silver Please

    The Shift in Refining: Why Metal Refiners Are Pausing Purchases of Sterling, “Scrap,” and Coin Silverarmen

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  13. How to Sell Your Broken or Unused Gold Jewelry to Us

    How to Sell Your Broken or Unused Gold Jewelry to Us

    Do you have old, broken, or unused gold jewelryarmen

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  14. Gold Hits Record Heights — What It Means for You

    September 2025

    Gold has once again captured the spotlight.

    As of early September, the spot price of goldarmen

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  15. Unlock the Value of Your Precious Metals IRA

    Thinking about redeeming your Precious Metals IRA? Whether it’s time to cash in, diversify, or take physicalarmen

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  16. Numismatic Varieties

    Numismatic Varieties

    What They Are

    A numismatic variety is a coin that differs from the standard design of its issue due toarmen

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  17. How do I get my coins Certified?    Part 2

    How do I get my coins Certified?    Part 2

    Ok, if you are cheating and have not read part 1 yet, somearmen

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  18. How do I get my coins Certified?    Part 1
    How do I get my coins Certified? Part 1 The process of getting your coins graded is rather straight forwardarmen
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  19. Proof, Business or Special?

    Proof, Business or Special?

    Proof, Business or Special?

    It’s all in the strike.

    Well, we have all seen coins that are labeled asarmen

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  20. The 1975-S No S Proof Dime

    The 1975-S No S Proof Dime

    Do you have a 1975 No S Proof dime?

    Recently the news was ablaze with a recent discovery of the 1975armen

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  21. What's the difference between an error coin and a damaged coin?

    We often get online inquiries about coins people find that they think are mint errors. So, we thoughtarmen

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  22. Buffalo Nickels Type 1 and Type 2

    Buffalos: Is it a type 1 or type 2?

    Have you ever noticed that it is mostly in the first year of a newarmen

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  23. 1981-S Type 2 Identification

    1981-S Type 2 Identification

    Recently I had a batch of unopened 1981-S Proof Sets come into the office.  As you know the type 2armen

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  24. Coin Quiz: What's wrong with it?

    Every once in a while you get something back from a third party grading company that just makes you scratcharmen

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  25. Are you wondering what your coins or Jewelry are worth?

    Are you wondering what your coins or Jewelry are worth? 

    Then this is the article for you.  We putarmen

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  26. The genericization of the Green Bean...

    I am not sure if anyone has said this out loud yet or not, but I sure cannot shake the idea that CACarmen

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  27. What is a good way to learn about coin collecting?

    While I will not speculate why you ended up reading this article it will be enough to say that like witharmen

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  28. Full Head, Bell or Bands?

    Full Head, Bell or Bands?

    Full Band, Full Steps, Full Head and Full Bell Lines…..

    Something about Numismatists and the word fullarmen

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  29. When to sell your collection

    When to sell your collection

    This article took a long time to write because this is a very difficult topic to write succinctly.  armen

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  30. What does an Uncirculated coin really mean?

    What does an Uncirculated coin really mean?

    In the world of coins, you hear the term Uncirculated orarmen

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  31. Why do we use the word cull?

    Why do we use the word cull?

    Why do we use the word cull?

    Have you ever heard the word cull used in Numismatics? Whenever we heararmen

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  32. What is Coin Collecting and how can we start?

    What is Coin Collecting and how can we start? 

    This is an overview for those that are exploring coinarmen

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  33. What is the difference between bullion and Numismatics?

    What is the difference between bullion and Numismatics? 

    We see these concepts get mixed up and interchangedarmen

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  34. Silver and Gold Stackers, this one is for you.

    Are you a Silver Stacker or a Gold Hog?  This one is for you….

    One day you are just living your lifearmen

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  35. Coin Quiz: What do these coins have in common?

    Coin Quiz! : What do these coins have in common?

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  36. Price Guides

    Price Guides

    Ok, so you want to publish a “price guide.” How does one do that? Conventional wisdom says that youarmen

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  37. Unboxing of 5 Sealed GSAs

    Unboxing of 5 Sealed GSAs

    Please enjoy the video.

    link->>  https://youtu.be/0f-tUfF84X4

     

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  38. Collecting is not investing.  Advantage Collecting...

    While you can do one or both, the universe seldom hands out opportunities to do them both at the samearmen

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  39. Fineness

    Fineness

    Fineness, fine ness, fine-ness. Sorry, just one of those words that invoke Semantic satiation. Pronouncedarmen
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  40. Lab Grown?

    Lab Grown?

    Lab Grown?

     
    By now we have all heard about “Lab-grown” diamonds, but we may not all know what they reallyarmen
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  41. Learn from CAC

    Learn from CAC

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    While I was doing a show in Central California, I found myself in a conversation with a collector that
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  42. Where does the "$" come from?

    Where does the "$" come from?

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    What does “$” really mean anyway? Now, before you nominate this question for consideration to be one
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  43. “Money is the most fundamental object in an organized society”

    Coins are not like Rare Art, Antique Cars or anything like the million other things people collect.   armen

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  44. “Third Party Grading”

    “Third Party Grading”

    … It is our premise that coins graded during the spring of the Third Party Grading (TPG) formation, werearmen

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  45. Are you a Numismatist?

    Are you a Numismatist?

    This write up is on the lighter side. Today we ask: Can you spot a Numismatist?
    I love collecting things.armen

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  46. The Art of anti-Counterfeit

    The Art of anti-Counterfeit

    Take a look at the Currency below. The note on the top left was issued in Armenia in 1922. The one belowarmen

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