PCGS Weekly Update February 20, 2024

Recent Price Guide Updates

• Flowing Hair Large Cents
• MS & PR Liberty Seated Half Dollars
• Palladium $25 Eagles
• American Liberty Gold
• Mint Sets

CoinFacts Narrative Update

The 1942-D over Horizontal D Jefferson Nickel is a result of a Mint employee punching the mint mark in the wrong position on the working die. Up until late in 1989, the Mint employee would hand punch the mint mark on to the working die, and this would often result with the mint mark being struck the wrong way. Read more.

PCGS Set Registry Update

The Battle of Gallabat started on March 9, 1889. The following day, Emperor of Ethiopia Yohannes IV was killed in warfare. Menelik II, hearing this tragic news, declared himself Emperor of Ethiopia on March 25, 1889. He gained the respect of the nobles in Ethiopia and was officially sworn in as emperor on November 3, 1889. Unfortunately when Menelik II took over as king, a plague known as “rinderpest” or “cattle disease” was in full effect killing his people. This great famine wiped out a majority of the cattle in the land and killed about four million people from 1888 to 1892.

Menelik II was a great military leader and able to unify tribes that grew his kingdom. He despised the slave trade, destroyed slave routes through this region, and punished slave traders with amputation. He approved the Ethio-Djibouti railway to be built in Ethiopia during the year of 1894 with the help of the French and defeated invading Italians in 1896. He spoke French, Italian, and English fluently and welcomed technological advancements with his territories. PCGS has listed a set titled 1972 Ethiopian Silver Proof Set, which includes the coin displayed above depicting Menelik II known as the "Conquering Lion."

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!