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CoinLink presents the Best and Worst of 2008, a small selection of news items that appeared in 2008 that made our Editor sit back and think abit about the hobby and the industry. Of course this is just one possible list. We encourage readers to send us your selections and we’ll post a few of those as well.

Doug Winter provides his own take on 2008/9 with a What’s Hot and What’s Not list. Always insightful and a good read.

The US Mint has releases the line art for the 5 First Spouse gold coins to be issued in 2009. We never realized that President Tyler has two wifes during his time in office, and we must say that “Julia” is actually kind of hot. Way to go John !

We also found another Unique Item, this one in the upcoming Heritage FUN Sale, an defaced 1797 Copper Die Trial of a $5 Half Eagle. It is interesting to note that the reverse die was known to the numismatic community for almost a century before the single gold example was discovered.

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A small grouping of miscellaneous early U.S. federal and colonial coinage consigned to Stack’s has yielded a heretofore unknown 1722 Wood’s Hibernia Halfpenny die variety. This discovery is only the second such new variety uncovered since the 2007 release of Sydney F. Martin’s landmark reference on the Wood’s Hibernia series entitled The Hibernia Coinage of William Wood (1722-1724).

Heritage will conduct a 5200+ Lot Currency Signature Auction on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday January 8-10, 2009 at the Orange County Convention Center, 9400 Universal Blvd., Orlando Florida. The Convention Center is also the site of the Florida United Numismatists Show.

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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Greg Reynolds provides Part 3 of The Greatest Collection of Costa Rican Coins Ever Auctioned : Silver Coins from 1850 to 1889. On Oct. 23, the firm of Spink-Smythe auctioned the Frederick Mayer collection of Costa Rican coins. Part 1 was an overview of the event. Here in part 3, choice and/or interesting silver coins dating from 1850 to 1889 will be covered. Mayer’s Costa Rican gold coins will be discussed in part 4. The rare and fascinating Costa Rican coins of the Central American Republic (1823-40) are the subject of part 5. This series is designed so that someone who knows nothing about Costa Rican coins can learn a good deal about them and may appreciate the greatness of Mayer’s collection.

The first grading project of NGC Ancients and a select group of just over one hundred NGC-graded World coins highlighted a Geneva auction conducted by Numismatic Genevensis SA on December 2 and 3, 2008.

The Official Auctions of the FUN 2009 Convention in Orlando have been posted by Heritage Auction Galleries on its HA.com Web site. Spread over seven separate catalogs of U.S. coins and currency are some 15,000 lots that Heritage will be offering at FUN. More than 600 consignors are participating in FUN; a further 2,800 lots of ancient and world coins for the NYINC Signature® Auction are also posted for bidding.

Bowers and Merena Auctions, America’s leading rare coin and currency auction house, launches the 2009 auction year with the Bowers and Merena Orlando Rarities Sale on January 4 prior to the FUN Convention. A leading consignment in Bowers and Merena’s Orlando Rarities Sale, the Riverside Collection offers an impressive selection of rare, high-quality proof type coins from the mid-to-late 19th century.

Heritage will be auctioning a Proof 1884-CC dollar at FUN in January, The extreme rarity is only one of the four known to exist. Although well known to specialists. what is not as well known, and is in fact extraordinary, is that Jack Lee owned two of the four known pieces.

The undisputed highlight of the recent Bowers and Merena Baltimore auction was an exciting new discovery coin, lot 1143, an exceedingly rare 1795 S-79 Reeded Edge Liberty Cap Cent, one of just six pieces known to exist and the only example certified by PCGS or NGC.

Wayne Sayles in his Blog on Ancient Coin Collecting, comments on the use of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 (Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property) and poses the question; Can one be in violation of a convention?

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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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.

Continuing with News across the web, we have a new posting of - Coin News Daily - providing short excerpts and links to other news across the web that we have found, and which you may find of interest. We also provide Daily Updates on Precious Metals in The Bullion Report, with Charts, Video Headlines and News.

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