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WEBBy Numismatic News Staff Aug 30, 2024. World Coin News. The Mint of Finland to Close by Spring 2025. The Mint of Finland will cease its production operations in the spring of 2025, marking the end of over a century of coin minting. By …
Collectors Find Duplicated Federal Reserve Note Serial Numbers
WEBJan 12, 2021 · This was about the $1 Series of 2013 FRNs where the Bureau of Engraving and Printing accidentally duplicated 6,650,000 serials in the B* block between the Washington and Fort Worth plants. That article profiled a team of collectors led by Ed Zegers in Maryland and Karol Winograd in Florida who organized to attempt to find a matched pair from ...
Major Error Discovered on Kanaka‘ole Quarter - Numismatic News
WEBJul 20, 2023 · The extreme strength of the clashing of “EDETH” is due to Kanaka‘ole’s name being raised on the die and incuse on the coin. This is just the opposite of most coin designs where the elements are incuse in the die. This is the same reason the clashed “E” on the 1888-O VAM 1A dollar is so strong having been created from the incuse word ...
Rare 1982-D Small Date Copper Found - Numismatic News
WEBKen Potter. Dec 23, 2016. After 34 years, a 1982-D Small Date cent struck on a 95-percent copper-alloy planchet has finally been found and confirmed by me. A Minnesota collector who wishes to remain anonymous discovered it while sorting through 1982 cents by weight to save the copper-alloy pieces for their melt value.
Cents look like copper coating is missing - Numismatic News
WEBSep 18, 2017 · Your coins could have been acid treated, they might have been struck on dime planchets, the coinage blanks might have had an abnormally thin copper coating, or they might be struck on zinc planchets that never received a copper coating. Someone needs to examine your coins to determine exactly what they are. I …
The History of the Mercury Dime - Numismatic News
WEBR.W. Julian. May 18, 2021. A pattern dime of 1916 which was accidentally circulated. (Images courtesy of Stack's/Bowers) The Mercury dime is what started this writer collecting coins. In the fall of 1950 I lived in Longmont, Colo. and a local grocery store advertised that it would sell a pound of margarine for a dime if that coin was dated 1940.
Series 2017 $1 Federal Reserve Notes hard to find
WEBNov 27, 2018 · Have you found a series 2017 $1 Federal Reserve Note in circulation yet? These are the new notes with the facsimile signature of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin printed rather than in cursive. I ask if you have found such a note for two reasons. The first is I have been included in a number of emails from collectors and dealers of paper money.
Dealer Directory - Numismatic News
WEBAtlanta Gold & Coin Buyers is a full-service coin and bullion dealer specializing in buying, selling and appraising gold, silver, platinum, old, and rare coins. We’re proud to be one of the most transparent gold and coin dealers in Atlanta! By …
The Strange Life of the United States Trade Dollar
WEBJan 26, 2024. Photograph by Carleton Watkins, Wikimedia Commons. Recently, a writer in a different numismatic publication suggested that the U.S. Trade dollar (1873-1885), which was ostensibly issued for use in East Asia, didn’t enter circulation in the United States until after the 1878 Bland-Allison Act reinstated the 412.5-grain silver ...
Coin Market - Numismatic News
WEBSpanish authorities have dismantled a counterfeit euro ring, seizing equipment and detaining suspects involved in producing fake currency. The operation marked a significant step in combating financial fraud within the European Union. By Richard Giedroyc Jun 18, 2024. Coin Market.
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