It’s that time again… our one and only "blog" of the week. Don’t worry, you won’t hear what I had for breakfast… For this Friday’s blog, I wanted to highlight coins – dimes and quarters specifically – and their value in solving problems. Yes, it’s a trip back to memory lane and a revisit to [...]
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Ottawa, Ontario, December 13, 2007 – The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) is crediting its patented multi-ply plating technology for a record year in its foreign circulation business line. The Mint’s Winnipeg, Manitoba facility has already set a new production volume record with one month left to go in 2007, having struck almost 1.2 billion multi-ply [...]
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As a quick reminder, the United States Mint started selling the 10th Anniversary American Eagle Platinum coins at noon (EST) today. There’s definite interest in these coins. Several thousand CoinNews subscribers read our Nov. 28 article about the anniversary set, making it a top 5 for the month of December. Whether that napkin math analysis [...]
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The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) was created to help in the recommendation and selection of new United States Minted coins and medals. For anyone who loves art, designing, collecting or history, becoming a member of the CCAC could be a dream come true. And for two people, that dream could turn into reality as [...]
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(Irvine, California) — Hundreds of silver and gold coins, silver bars and specially-made gold $1 and $5 denomination gaming tokens that were stored for decades in the vault of a well-known downtown Las Vegas casino have been purchased by Spectrum Numismatics International of Irvine, California. “These items are from the El Cortez Hotel and Casino [...]
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"One of the Most Popular of all Registry Sets" (Santa Ana, California) — The PCGS Set Registry all-time number one finest set of modern U.S. proof coins from 1968 to the present will be exhibited by Professional Coin Grading Service during the Florida United Numismatists (FUN) convention (booth #138) in Orlando, January 10 – 13, [...]
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Centerpiece of World Auction is “Carl F. Chirico Jr. Collection of World Pattern Coins” IRVINE, Calif. – Bowers and Merena Auctions, America’s leading rare coin auction house, continues as Official Auctioneer of the Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention in 2008, with the next auction scheduled for February 27 to March 2, 2008. For their first [...]
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by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) More than a year after it was first announced, the Bank of Israel has issued a new 2-shekel coin on Sunday – the first change in Israeli currency in nearly 20 years. Children will undoubtedly introduce it into the popular Chanukah game of spinning a top called a dreidel, in which [...]
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The latest edition of Mint Error News Magazine is now available. The free magazine, published by Mike Byers, is an excellence resource for any collector – new or or experienced – who would like to know more about the very latest in minted error coins. Aside from the magazine’s library of information, the latest edition [...]
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