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Raw Coins on MyCollect Newsletter Edition #8 - May 2025 There's no rest for MyCollect and this month we're excited to share the addition of Raw Coin support and One Sixty-Four sets! Supporting raw coins really is a milestone for MyCollect allowing us to be the one place to manage your entire inventory. It's also been great to see the activity on the site and we are privileged to have member...

Unique 1844-O $5 and $10 Proof Gold Coins Reunited After 100 Years Apart The two rarities will be displayed at the ANA World’s Fair of Money in Oklahoma; Not seen together since the 1890 Parmelee auction (Irvine, California) May 9, 2025 - For the first time in a century, the unique pair of 1844 $5 and $10 Proof Gold coins minted in New Orleans have been reunited and will be on display at...

Collection of 100 Greatest U.S. Coins Surprises Industry Daily reveals on MyCollect include many major rarities featured in 100 Greatest U.S. Coins book by Jeff Garrett (Irvine, California) May 8, 2025 - Over the past few weeks, coin collectors have been enjoying one of the greatest reveals in numismatics, with a user on numismatic social media platform MyCollect posting daily updates of the...

Announcing the MyCollect Set Awards Newsletter Edition #7 - April 2025 Wow, do we have a bumper packed newsletter this month! First, congratulations to all Guess the Grade competitors for the 2025 Q1 Season, which has now concluded. See below for details on the Q1 winners, Q2 Season, and some exciting news for young numismatists. We're also thrilled to announce the inaugural MyCollect Set...

The age old question of “is this coin valuable” is common among the general public and beginner coin collectors. In writing this article I hope to provide some guidelines for what generally makes a coin more valuable than its counterparts. By no means is this article an exhaustive guide for whether or not your coin is valuable, though it should be useful for narrowing down possibly...

Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert was born on the 3rd of June 1865, the second Son of Albert Edward Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark. George V did not become king until the age of forty-five when his father passed asway in 1910. George V's reign was one of great social and political changes, in Britain, but especially in Europe, where most other monarchies...

On September 8th, 2022, at 15:10 BST the world was shook by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. I still remember being on my lunch break in high school and reading a headline from the BBC stating: “Queen Elizabeth II has died.” This headline not only made me emotional, but the entire world was united in honoring the life of Queen Elizabeth II along with asking the question; “who...

When you think of scandals in the British Royal family from the twentieth century, that of King Edward VIII is probably high up there. Famous for being the King who abdicated the throne before his coronation to marry Wallis Simpson, being one of the most controversial actions in the history of the British Monarchy. This scandal continues to haunt the Royal family to the present day, especially,...

King George VI is arguably one of the monarchs who experienced the largest bout of political change in the twentieth century, with him experiencing the entirety of the Second World War, working alongside Winston Churchill. Taking his brothers throne after his scandalous abdication George VI numismatically saw the debasement of the British coinage with all the silver coins such as the one imaged...

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria in 2015. Consequently,there is a large variety of coinage with her portrait on it from multiple commonwealth countries such as Canada and Australia. Along with this, over her 70 years of reign, she had five different portraits; an example of each of these will be explored in the following article....

World Sets & Guess the Grade Competition! Newsletter Edition #6 - March 2025 This month we have some exciting news for our Set Registry members with the introduction of World Sets. We've also updated our NGC coin processing which simplifies the process of adding NGC coins, only the certs are needed now. The fun continues with Guess the Grade too. Feedback has been really positive for the...

Education Mode for Guess the Grade™ Newsletter Edition #5 - February 2025 As promised in the last newsletter we've been focusing on delivering some much wanted updates to Guess the Grade. Read on below for all the details! Also welcome to the flurry of new members interested in Guess the Grade thanks to some recent social media coverage. We hope you explore the rest of MyCollect's...