Archive | June, 2011

30 June 2011

An Explanation of Palladium Prices

If you’re like a lot of other investors, you may have been paying a lot of attention to the price of gold and silver. That makes sense because so many financial websites, newspapers, and news programs have focused on these two leading precious metals. This is a bit unfortunate, however, because it has allowed people [...]

29 June 2011

Gold Eagles Remain a Great Investment

As someone who wants to invest, you know that you have to make good decisions with your money. You don’t want to place your money in investments that aren’t going to do well, and you certainly don’t want to place your money into investments that have the potential to lose lots of money. Precious metals [...]

28 June 2011

What Started the Interest in Buying Gold

Even though investing is very serious business, it is somewhat amusing when you see headlines that use hyperbolic statements such as “prices plunge” when they are describing gold prices that are still at about $1500 per troy ounce. Gold prices have been steadily increasing since the beginning of the 21st-century. This is somewhat ironic, considering [...]

20 June 2011

Understanding The Value Of Silver Dollars

There are a variety of factors that will affect how much your silver dollars are worth.  This is something that you will want to know about before you start collecting too many coins. Knowing What Coins Exist The first thing that you should know is what types of silver dollars actually exist.  These include: The [...]

20 June 2011

BASICS OF COLLECTING MORGAN DOLLARS

Morgan dollars are incredibly popular among coin collectors today.  What is it that makes these coins so fascinating to collectors and makes them worth exponentially more than their face value? Morgan silver dollars were minted from 1878 to 1904 and again, briefly, in 1921.  At one time, mass quantities of Morgans were melted for their [...]