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1807 50C Specimen 65 PCGS. O-109 unique specimen strike, will be offered at the upcoming Heritage Auction at FUN in January. John Dannreuther provides extensive insight into this important eary treasure from the US Mint.
Bowers and Merena Auctions announced today that it had acquired Ponterio & Associates, a 26-year-old firm specializing in ancient and world coins and paper money.
Unique Item Series: 1889 $3 Indian Head Three Dollars In Copper. The regular issue obverse and reverse design for the three dollar gold piece. Struck in copper with a reeded edge.
Doug Winter poses the question: Is the age of collecting by date or variety over? Have coins become so expensive and collecting so complex that it is inevitable that new collectors will focus solely on type coins?
The Perth Mint has announced that it will resume taking orders for a popular range of gold and silver bullion coins from 12 January 2009.
Greg Reynolds presents Part 2 of a review of the Frederick Mayer collection of Costa Rican coins auctioned on Oct. 23 in New York City by Spink-Smythe . Please see part 1 for an overview of the event. Here in part 2, the focus is on silver coins of the 1840s.
The #1 All-Time Finest Set of Lincoln Cents ever assembled, by Jack Lee, sold in heated competition at the Official Auction of the Houston Money Show of the Southwest. The Houston Signature Auction, held December 4-7, saw solid prices on important material consigned by more than 230 numismatists.
The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) will display Sunnywood’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” set of exquisitely toned Morgan silver dollars at the Florida United Numismatists (FUN) annual convention in Orlando, January 8 - 11, 2009.
Collectors of Franklin Half Dollars have free access to an important new resource now being offered by the Certified Acceptance Corp. (CAC). The company recently acquired an advanced reference set of Franklin halves to enhance its recognition of full-bell-lines specimens.
Stacks’ December Coin Galleries auction is an popular mail and internet bid sale held four times a year. Over 3,000 lots span every category from ancient, medieval, and world coins, to medals, tokens, orders and decorations, and to U.S. coins and currency.
The Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) is offering rewards for information leading to the recovery of rare coins and paper money stolen in a half dozen, seemingly-related burglaries from the offices of Southern California rare coin dealers.
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