Monthly Archives: January 2008
Weekend Recap: Silver, Gold and Platinum Prices; Business Week News
Teens Arrested For Counterfeiting Money Using Inkjet Printers
Three Long Island 17-year old high school students are under arrest for printing counterfeit $10s, $20s and $50s from the back of a pickup truck.
Amazingly, police say ink jet printers were used to print the bills. The power source? A Radio Shack inverter plugged into the pickup truck's cigarette lighter.
The average person could easily assume any teenager who used the bed of a truck as a factory floor and inkjet printers to output bogus bills would get caught and arrested in short notice time.
The Friday Fun Blog: Coin Donation Creates Bomb Scare
CoinNews Goes Mobile: Coin News for Cell Phones and Mobility Devices
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Proxibid Partners with Bowers and Merena Auctions for Major Coin Sale
Omaha, NE — January 2, 2008 — Proxibid, the leading provider of Internet auction webcasting services, today announced that it will provide live online bidding for the Bowers and Merena Orlando Rarities Sales, slated for January 8, 2008 in Orlando. The live auction event will take place at the International Plaza Resort & Spa in the heart of Orlando’s bustling entertainment district, two days prior to the Orlando F.U.N. Show. Live online bidding will begin January 8 at 6:00 p.m. EST on Proxibid. View the auction catalog now!
670 lots of high-quality, rare U.S. coins will be available for live online bidding during this auction. Even the most discerning collectors will agree that this is a must-attend event. With online bidding via Proxibid, collectors world-wide can log on to bid and win some of these rare coins.
One of the most exciting coins to cross the block during this auction is Lot 516, a 1795 Capped Bust Half Eagle, Small Eagle, BD-2, HBCC-3034, Miller-3, Rarity-6, graded MS-64 by NGC. According to Bowers and Merena’s President Steve Deeds,
“This is a spectacular specimen. Only 20 to 30 examples of the 1795 BD-2 Half Eagle are believed to have survived, and the near-Gem that we are offering here is undoubtedlythe finest example available for private ownership, if it is not the finest known.”
“We are thrilled to offer online bidding via Proxibid for this auction,” said Deeds. “We have several high-profile items available for this auction, including a 1793 Half Cent, the United States’ first half-cent coin. Collectors won’t want to miss this auction!”
European Commission: Cyprus and Malta Smoothly Transition to Euro
The Top 20 Coin Sites You Must See to Believe
There are thousands and thousands of coin sites on the Internet. Many of them are outstanding while others have been dead for months and years. It's the sheer quantity and their varying degrees of completion - or, incompleteness to be more exact - that make it more difficult to find some of the gems out there.
It's my hope you'll discover at least one or two new sites or "gems" to frequent after reading this.
The criteria for coin sites listed
First and foremost, this list isn't completely fair. It doesn't and can't list every coin related site that offers terrific information or services for coin collectors. To keep the list manageable, I set up a few conditions. Each site had to: