Monthly Archives: February 2008
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President Signs Law: Sacagawea Golden Dollar Coins Make Comeback in 2008
Sacagawea coins will see the light of day in 2008. It is all in thanks to new legislation that was introduced Monday, passed in the House and Senate on Thursday and signed into law by President Bush on Friday. The law amends old and gives the United States Mint the authority to mint and issue 2008 Sacagawea Golden Dollars.
The reason the Mint stopped in issuing them is a story with several twists and turns ...
Presidential $1 Coins take hold in 2007, shadowing Sacagawea coins
Sacagawea coins took a back seat to the new Presidential $1 Coins in 2007. With an already vaulted inventory of older Sacagawea coins and the over 943 million new Presidential coins produced in 2007, there was little need to mint Sacagawea golden dollars and release them to the public. Instead, 2007 Sacagawea's were essentially left in the dark and only purchased by coin collectors.
Gigantic Coin Unveiling Launches New Dollar Coin Commemorating the Centenary of...
The Royal Australian Mint kicked off the introduction of a new circulating one dollar coin and a series of new collector coins with a gigantic and symbolic coin commemorating the Centenary of Scouts Australia.
The model coin was the largest ever produced by the Mint at an impressive 400 times the size of the normal one dollar circulating coin.
Its unveiling appropriately took place in front of a group of children and young adults who represented various scouting groups across Australia.
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PCGS Currency Notifies FBI of “D. B. Cooper” Serial Numbers
During the recent examination and certification of recovered money from the famous 1971 "D. B. Cooper" skyjacking case, PCGS Currency staff members discovered nearly three dozen serial numbers that apparently had not been previously recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The numbers were hidden in layers of notes and note fragments stuck together for decades, and those numbers now have been reported by PCGS Currency President, Jason Bradford, to the Seattle-based FBI agent overseeing the case.
In a letter to FBI Special Agent Larry Carr, Bradford wrote: "Earlier this month, members of our team examined two dozen environmentally-damaged $20 denomination Federal Reserve Notes and dozens of fragments submitted to us for certification by Brian Ingram of Mena, Arkansas. As you know, Mr. Ingram was the then-eight year old boy in 1980 who discovered some of the cash given in 1971 as ransom to a skyjacker known as 'D. B. Cooper' or 'Dan Cooper.'"