PCGS Weekly Update July 16, 2024

Recent Price Guide Updates

• PR Braided Hair Cents
• Flying Eagle Cents
• Indian Cents
• MS Liberty Head Quarter Eagles
• MS Indian Quarter Eagles
• MS & PR Capped Bust Half Eagles
• MS Classic Head Half Eagles

CoinFacts Narrative Update

The 2023-P Kennedy Half Dollars were first offered by the U.S. Mint on May 15, 2023. The coins were offered in a two roll set, one roll containing 20 coins struck at the Philadelphia Mint and the second with 20 coins struck at the Denver Mint. Read more.

PCGS Set Registry Update

Coinage can take on unique forms just as the various types of methods that are used within the filmmaking industry to produce movie magic. Stop-motion is a filming technique that could involve the use of clay characters, wooden figurines, and other mediums. These inanimate objects are captured frame by frame, which can be a painstaking process to finish, and the completed work creates the illusion of movement.

This method of filmmaking first made its debut in a short film titled The Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1898, which has been lost in time. The movie King Kong, released in 1933, used the stop-motion process. Tim Burton, who is world renowned as a director, worked for Walt Disney Productions early in the 1980s. During his time there, he wrote a poem that turned into the film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Burton embraced the stop-motion animation during the making of his musical Christmas film, which was released in the fall of 1993. Jake Skellington, who is known as the Pumpkin King, is a character in this movie whose coin shown above is part of a set PCGS recently listed as Niue $2 Nightmare Before Christmas Set, Specimen Strikes (2021-2023).

Additional sets from various countries have been added, so please feel free to browse the PCGS Set Registry when you have a chance and you may find there is a set for almost anyone to build. The PCGS Set Registry offers many different sets from all over the world and specialty sets for advanced collectors. We appreciate your continued patronage, all the best in building your sets, and Happy Collecting, folks!