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    1952 Roosevelt Dime

    In 1946, The U.S. Mint replaced the Mercury Dime with the Roosevelt Dime. The Roosevelt Dime has been produced ever since, and remains in production to this day. While one might assume that these ten-cent pieces do not have any value to collectors, the fact is that these coins can have significant value depending on…

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    1951 Roosevelt Dime

    The U.S. Mint replaced the Mercury Dime design with a new design in 1946, the Roosevelt Dime. The Roosevelt Dime has been produced ever since, and is still in production today. While many would assume that these coins have no collectible value, some of them can be quite valuable based on type, year and condition….

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    1950 Roosevelt Dime

    In 1946, the U.S. Mint made a significant change to its ten cent piece. The newly designed Roosevelt Dime replaced the Mercury Dime. The Roosevelt Dime has been around for a long time, and is still being produced to this day. While some may not believe that these coins carry any value above their face…

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    1949 Roosevelt Dime

    In 1946, the United States Mint replaced the Mercury Dime with the Roosevelt Dime ten cent piece. While a dime may not seem valuable to collectors, certain types of Roosevelt Dime have significant value above and beyond their face value. That being said, a collector will likely only be interested in obtaining Roosevelt Dime that…

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    1948 Roosevelt Dime

    In the year 1946, The U.S. Mint replaced its Mercury Dime with the Roosevelt Dime. This was a completely new design for the mint’s popular ten cent piece, and this design is still being produced today. While some might assume that a Roosevelt Dime has little to no collectable value, certain years of this coin…

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    1947 Roosevelt Dime

    Beginning in 1946, the US Mint decided to pursue a new design of their now popular 10-cent piece. The Roosevelt Dime was the next coin produced, and is one that is still being produced today. Now you may not think that these coins have any collector value, but when it comes to early editions such…

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    1946 Roosevelt Dime

    Dimes have been produced by the US Mint for some time now, and all varieties of these ten-cent pieces are of importance to collectors. Today, the coin is popular amongst collectors and is only seeming to grow in popularity. This edition of the Roosevelt Dime is the first year a new design was unveiled; a…

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    How Gold’s Price Varies with the US Money Supply

    One of the most attractive parts of owning gold is the fact that it stores value. The metal has acted as a tangible representation of wealth for thousands of years, and there’s no reason to think it will ever stop being a valued and precious commodity. However, its price in terms of national currencies fluctuates…

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    Gold & Silver as a Percentage of Global Assets

    For many millennia gold has served mankind as a monetary asset, a financial asset, and as a valuable commodity. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the world moved away from using gold as the international monetary system’s choice for balance of payment settlements. What followed was a decade of currency crisis, periods of high…

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    How Much Fine Silver Bullion is in the World?

    You may be surprised to find out that there is perhaps less .999 fine silver bullion in existence today than .999 fine gold bullion. Although gold occurs less often in the ground, we humans do not use the same percentage of gold (9% of annual supplies) in industrial applications as often as we use silver…

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    How is Gold Mined?

    Today it typically takes anywhere from 10 to 20 years before a gold mine is ready to produce ore extracts that can be refined into gold doré bars and eventually .999 fine gold bullion. 5 Gold Mining Steps Gold Mine Exploration: To search for undiscovered gold deposits requires large amounts of time, capital, and expertise…

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    Which Countries Mine Gold?

    Gold mining occurs all over the world with operations currently on every continent aside from Antarctica. The majority of the world’s above ground gold supply came from the post-industrial and especially post-world war era. As the gold mining industry has evolved over this timeframe so too has it also diversified geographically. In recent decades a…

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    Which Countries Mine Silver?

    For 13 years in a row from 2003 to 2015, silver mine production has increased every single year across the world. From 2006 to 2015, global silver mine production has increased 37.8% from 643,300,000 oz to a 886,700,000 oz output of silver per year respectively. Popular silver bullion coin programs in countries like Canada and…

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    FDR’s Silver Nationalization 1934

    A large portion of gold bullion buyers have either heard of or know about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Executive Order 6102 when the US government outlawed large private gold bullion ownership. Many silver bullion buyers are yet unaware of the President Roosevelt administration’s Executive Order 6814 which occurred over one year later. Shortly after…

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    US House to Silver Ratio & US Home to Gold Ratio

    The following article and data charts will give you more than 50 years of data on either the average or median priced home in the United States versus silver and gold bullion values. We begin with four regional median sales price charts from the Federal Reserve’s website (FRED Economic Data). The median house price is…

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    History and Future of Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium Price Spikes

    Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium have each exhibited massive fluctuations in price over the past five decades. However, the savvy precious metals investor may wonder if the price spikes and declines of these four precious metals tell a story. If you fall into that category, you’ve come to the right place. This blog is a…

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    Silver Solar Demand

    For over 5,000 years the world’s lowest priced precious metal, silver, has been coveted by human beings for adornment and as money itself. Arguably today silver holds even more worth in scientific applications than merely as a long term monetary metal or store of value. Nobel Laureate economist, Milton Friedman, once quipped, “The major monetary…

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    The 2008 Gold & Silver Shortage of Bullion Products

    An industry wide gold and silver bullion shortage occurred during the 2008 Financial Crisis. It began in early September 2008 and lasted all the way into the spring of 2009. During this time the world’s largest Government Mints and Private Mints could not supply enough bullion coins and bars to meet global demand. In North…

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    When will a Gold & Silver Bullion Shortage Arise?

    Let us begin by defining what we mean by either a gold bullion shortage or a shortage of silver bullion supplies. Bullion Shortage – (n) when the physical bullion market’s available bullion supply for sale and immediate delivery is unable to sufficiently meet the investing public’s demand. Today the majority of the wealth within the…

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    When were Silver Coins Discontinued?

    When did silver coins stop and disappear from circulation? In this article we will review both the issuance and disappearance of circulating silver coins throughout North America specifically the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Old US Silver Coins For decades following President Roosevelt’s 1934 Silver Nationalization, the United States forced a government mandated silver price…

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    Why are Silver Coins Different Prices?

    When you look at an online bullion website like JMBullion you will typically find various government minted and guaranteed silver coins available for purchase. Silver coin prices vary widely. In fact silver coin prices are different due to a number of factors including the: Differing silver coin sizes Amount of you are buying Payment method…

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    How to Insure Gold and Silver Bullion

    Coin collections and bullion have limited counter-party risks unlike virtually any other assets. Most forms of real estate, equities, bonds, cash, etc. all require other parties to fulfill obligations and promises made. Essentially the biggest risk to coin collectors and bullion investors is theft by someone most likely closest to them ( family members, friends,…

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    How is the Platinum Spot Price Set?

    Platinum Spot Price – (n) the theoretical price of 1 troy ounce of platinum available for immediate delivery before being minted into a bullion bar, round, or coin. When you visit an online platinum bullion dealer website like JMBullion, chances are you will see the live platinum spot price quoted somewhere on the website. You…

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    How is the Silver Spot Price Set?

    Silver Spot Price – (n) the theoretical price of 1 troy ounce of silver available for immediate delivery before being minted into a bullion bar, round, or coin. When you visit an online silver bullion dealer website like JMBullion, chances are you will see the live silver spot price quoted somewhere on the website. You…

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    How is the Gold Spot Price Set?

    Gold Spot Price – (n) the theoretical price of 1 troy ounce of gold available for immediate delivery before being minted into a bullion bar, round, or coin. When you visit an online gold bullion dealer website like JMBullion, chances are you will see the live gold spot price quoted all over the website. You…

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