DON'T MISS: County Texas Exes Kick-off Meeting/Party Wharton County Texas Exes host a kick-off meeting and game-watching party today, at 8 p.m. at the FireHouse Bar & Grill. The first event of the year will be to reconnect with your fellow Wharton County Longhorns.

The proof collector €5 and €100 coins feature two historic Irish explorers with their ship 'The Endurance' backdropped within the steel grips of Antarctic ice. In a remarkable story, in 1915 Shackleton and Crean set off to cross the Antarctica via the South Pole on an expedition that soon became a near hopeless battle for survival.

John Quincy Adam United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin and Louisa Adams First Spouse Medal Sets are now available and priced at $7.95 each.

The set was released Wednesday, September 3, and includes an uncirculated John Quincy Adam Presidential dollar coin and a bronze medal bearing the likeness of the Louisa Adams First Spouse gold coin.

A bill recently introduced by Rep. Melvin Watt [D-NC] proposes a 40-coin, eight-year series of circulating quarters to commemorate and be emblematic of "prominent civil rights leaders and important events that have advanced civil rights in America."

irst, negative real rates of return and precious metals investment. Also, State Quarter mintages...

The Certified Collectibles Group (CCG) has formed an exclusive partnership with Guangdong Province Collection Coin Association (GDPCCA) to operate a submission center and as a marketing partner in China for coin and currency grading as well as coin conservation. The new affiliation will increase efficiencies for submitters in the China region, making it easier to send coins and currency to CCG in the USA.

DGSE Companies, Inc. (Amex: DGC- News), which wholesales, retails and auctions fine watches, jewelry, diamonds, precious metal and rare coin products via traditional and internet channels, today announces the Superior Galleries release of the first of a series of reference books, Superior Galleries - Introduction to Rare Coins and Precious Metals.

Dr. Charles Radford Stearns, a member of the ANA Board of Governors, died on Aug. 31 after a long illness. He was 67 years old. "We have all lost a special person and dedicated numismatist," said ANA President Barry Stuppler. "As a board member I was able to see his passion for helping the ANA provide better services and educational programs for its membership. Our board and the entire numismatic community will sincerely miss him."

By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics For every person who is a seller, we have found a buyer who thinks now is a good time and coins are cheap. The reasons are varied as to why people are selling. Very few have said to us they needed the money to live off of. We think the weakest players dropped out last year. Right now we see significant asset management occurring. The collectors we deal with want to move into the better material and are pretty much cleaning out their closets.

Someone recently asked me a question that I thought was interesting and that merited a detailed response. To paraphrase this question, they basically asked me this: can you tell me some ways that I can improve my collection while spending little or no money?