The general public can have the joys of being shut as much as greater than $100 million of historic uncommon cash and foreign money, together with a well-known $3 million nickel, on the American Numismatic Affiliation’s (ANA) Nationwide Cash Present on the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, February 27-March 1, 2025. Guests may uncover what their previous cash and paper cash could also be value.
“It is a family-friendly, academic occasion sponsored by the nonprofit American Numismatic Affiliation,” defined Thomas J. Uram, President of the group. “It’s unimaginable that such small treasures can maintain a lot worth and historical past, and we would like everybody to have the possibility to see this outstanding present in particular person.”
The conference, which is predicted to attract 1000’s of collectors from throughout the nation, will function a whole lot of sellers keen to purchase, promote and appraise cash and foreign money; pre-convention seminars; lectures and shows from famous amassing professionals; unimaginable museum-quality reveals, and extra.
Nationwide Cash Present Conference Hours
The conference, situated in Corridor A of the Cobb Galleria Centre, is open 10 a.m. to five:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 10 a.m. to three:30 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $10 for adults, youngsters 12 and beneath admitted free. Admission is free for everybody on Saturday. A sound photograph ID is required for entry.
Free Restricted Collectible
Go to desk 130 (close to the Cash Museum Showcase) at midday every day to say a free problem coin. Produced by ANA President Uram, the coin can have a particular NGC label.
About 330 cash can be distributed every day of the present, with restricted portions out there. The problem coin options the initials of well-known Mint engravers on the obverse, and serves as a key to a Nationwide Coin Week contest.
Beginning February 27, and lasting by means of the tip of Nationwide Coin Week, April 26, anybody who accurately guesses the Mint engraver names can be entered to win prizes. Submit solutions at NationalCoinWeek.org.
Wonderful Reveals
Cash valued within the thousands and thousands – reminiscent of a $3 million nickel – and seldom-seen historic reveals from the ANA Money Museum, and treasures from personal collections are an enormous draw for everybody. Among the many rarities on show this yr:
• An 1804 silver greenback, among the many most coveted of all U.S. uncommon cash, with solely 15 recognized examples.
• One of many 5 recognized 1913-dated Liberty Head Nickels. The face worth of the Bebee/McDermott specimen is just 5 cents, however this legendary nickel made beneath mysterious circumstances on the Philadelphia Mint is insured for $3 million.
• An period of flourishing creativity, the Renaissance gave beginning to an necessary a part of numismatics: the fashionable portrait medal. The Medals of the Renaissance exhibit will function a number of these spectacular medals.
• A 1933 gold eagle. Though the U.S. Mint produced 312,500 items, fewer than 40 are recognized to outlive in the present day.
• Choices of things used for commerce on the Silk Street – historical past’s first world commerce community. The cash that enabled this long-distance commerce stay essentially the most sturdy data of the tales, improvements, and cultures of a world not not like ours in the present day.
• Show of Financial institution of the USA (1st, 2nd, and third banks; 1792-1841) notes and checks, together with checks signed by President Andrew Jackson and Normal Winfield Scott.
• A $100 trillion denomination financial institution observe from Zimbabwe, one of many world’s most uncommon items of paper cash.
Studying Alternatives
Money Talks lectures can be offered all through the weekend by well-known professionals within the subject of coin amassing. These lectures present collectors a discussion board during which to share their views and analysis with the general public and are free to attend. The 30- to 45-minute packages accommodate questions from the viewers.
This yr’s shows are Thursday, February 27 and Friday, February 28 from 10 a.m. to three p.m.
Household Experiences on the Atlanta Nationwide Cash Present
Kids attending the present can go to Ernie’s Treasure Treehouse, an academic place to play video games and earn Hoot Loot to spend on numismatic objects of their selection. Video games embody Treasure Trivia (college students in grades Okay-12 obtain a sheet for a scavenger hunt across the bourse flooring with collaborating sellers), the money dice, plinko, cornhole, coin toss, design a coin, and extra. Prizes that may be purchased with Hoot Loot embody Liberty Head Nickels, Indian Head Cents, Japanese Occupation notes, Nationwide Parks Quarter albums, Mint units, piggy banks, Mint buying and selling playing cards, tokens, farthings, elongated cash, and extra.
On Saturday, March 1 from 9 a.m. to midday, a workshop for youngsters referred to as the Younger Collectors Nook will train the fundamentals of the interest of coin amassing. This system will cowl interest info reminiscent of –
- What cash is
- Coin identification, together with the elements of a coin and banknotes
- How cash and banknotes are made
- Accumulating fundamentals, together with methods to gather, storage and grading
- Numerous ANA packages out there to Younger Numismatists
For extra info go to info.money.org/ycc-nms-2025. To attend this workshop, pre-registration is strongly inspired to attend.
Nationwide Cash Present Sponsors
Sponsors assist make ANA conventions potential – offering the ANA with assets for higher training, extra actions, auctions and extra. The next sponsors helped convey collectively this yr’s Nationwide Cash Present.
Company Sponsors: GreatCollections, Numismatic Warranty Firm, Paper Cash Warranty, Licensed Warranty Firm, and Whitman.
Title Sponsor: TEXITcoin.
Sponsors: Angel Dee’s Cash and Collectibles, Americana Uncommon Coin, Classical Numismatic Group, Cash & Collectables, Coleman Foster Uncommon Cash, U.S. Cash, Patriot Cash and Treasured Metals, West Coast Cash, Gold and Coin Trade, and Zaner Treasured Metals.
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