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Japanese 1880 ¥2 Gold Coin Auctioned for ¥32.1 Million

by CoinNews.net on February 25, 2008 · 1 comment

An 1880 Japanese gold coin with a face value of ¥2 was expected to sell for millions when auctioned by Japan’s Finance Ministry. An article last Tuesday about the coin in The Japan Times Online said everything in its title, Ministry hopes 1880 ¥2 coin fetches 10 million times that. ¥20 million was the expected […]

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Torch Wielding Thieves Arrested for Stealing $750,000 in Rare and Common Coins

by CoinNews.net on January 31, 2008 · 0 comments

Dec. 16, 2007 wasn’t a good day for Chester (Chet) Endress, a 73-year old coin collector and owner of Chet’s Coin Shop. That day thieves burglarized Mr. Endress’s business by cutting through an adjacent store wall. The robbers then proceeded to torch the shop’s safe to steal approximately $750,000 worth of rare and common coins.

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Bowers and Merena to Offer Hundreds of Breathtaking Rarities In Orlando on January 8 Before the F.U.N. Show

by Stack's Bowers Galleries on December 19, 2007 · 0 comments

Website and Catalog Feature Exclusive Input on Select Coins by PCGS Founder and Director, David Hall IRVINE, Calif. – Bowers and Merena Auctions, America’s leading rare coin auction house, kicks off festivities in Orlando on Tuesday, January 8, 2008, with the Bowers and Merena Orlando Rarities Sales, featuring 670 rare and desirable coin lots sure […]

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House Walls Used Like Piggy Banks for Rare Coins

by CoinNews.net on October 27, 2007 · 0 comments

Packing coins into house walls apparently was an "in" thing during times of old. Earlier this month there was the account of ancient roman coins found within a blacksmith’s wall in Portugal. Now, there’s another case of rare coins found in an old home and wall in Pennsylvania. This latest batch of coins are not […]

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