The Longfellow Collection, Part Two of The Alfred V. Melson Collection and an impressive array of California gold anchor late Winter West Coast auction, Feb. 3-7 DALLAS, TX — An extremely rare and very beautiful 1849-C Open Wreath gold dollar, graded XF45 by NGC, is the crown jewel of The Longfellow Collection and leads the [...]
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The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) will meet Tuesday, Jan. 26, to review candidate designs for the 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters, the United States Mint announced on Friday. The meeting is open to the public and news media. The US Mint is off to a quick start in providing the CCAC with 2011 designs. [...]
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Latvia wins the 2010 Coin of the Year Award and Hungary takes home the People’s Choice Award, World Coin News Publisher Scott Tappa announced Jan. 12.
A COTY international panel of judges concluded voting Jan. 8 and the public online voting for the People’s Choice Award ended Jan. 10.
"I would like to congratulate the winners from both rounds of voting," Tappa said. "What makes the results especially interesting is this is the third time Hungary has won the People’s Choice Award."
World Coin News will recognize both winners Jan. 30 at the World Money Fair in Berlin.
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(Katy, Texas) – Paul Montgomery, the numismatic expert hired by the court-appointed receiver for the Stanford Financial Group companies, cautions that claimants should remain patient after a federal judge in Dallas, Texas approved dispersals of more than $20 million in rare coins, bullion coins and cash to former customers of Stanford Coins and Bullion, Inc. [...]
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The United States Mint on Wednesday began selling Northern Mariana Islands Quarter First Day Coin Covers for $14.95. The 20,000 limited edition cover includes the final two quarters struck in the 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Program. One quarter-dollar is from the US Mint’s Denver facility while the other was produced in [...]
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The United States Mint is holding chosen designs and launch information for the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters very close to the vest. The only fragment of information released about the coins is that the five 210 reverse designs are expected to be revealed during a special ceremony planned for February. No specifics have been [...]
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For only the second time, a single-day numismatic literature auction sale has grossed over a million dollars. On June 1, 2004, the first one thousand lots of the John J. Ford, Jr. library brought 1.66 million dollars, eclipsing the four Armand Champa library sales (just under 1 million dollars), and the five Harry Bass library [...]
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