Monday, December 10, 2007

Last Chance for Year’s US Commemorative Coins

by CoinNews.net on December 10, 2007 · 0 comments

Friday, Dec. 14th, is the final day to purchase this year’s commemorative coins from the US Mint. The Jamestown 400th anniversary $1 silver and $5 gold coins and the Little Rock 50th anniversary silver dollar haven’t sold out. However, the law mandating them states that the coins can only be issued during a one-year period. [...]

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Penny Harvest Field Opens: It’s Built By Children and All for Charity

by CoinNews.net on December 10, 2007 · 1 comment

Every year New York City children from participating schools collect pennies from family, friends and neighbors. These pennies don’t make their way into piggy banks or Lincoln coin collections. Instead, the children put their pennies together and they’re literally trucked to the Penny Harvest Field, an enormous and specially designed penny-holding structure in Rockefeller Center. [...]

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