Coin Collecting News

Canada Issues Latest Notes in Plastic Money Series

2013-05-13T10:28:00.000-05:00

The Bank of Canada has unveiled the latest bills in its new polymer note series, the $5 and $10 denominations, a move that comes as it highlights progress made in the fight against counterfeit...

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A Look at the World's Weirdest Money

2013-05-13T09:07:00.000-05:00

Canada's New Plastic Currency From talking JFK coins to glow-in-the-dark quarters, here's a look at some of the world's weirdest money . . . Read more at The Week

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SS Central America Treasure Hunter Hunted by U.S. Federal Marshals

2013-05-08T11:54:00.000-05:00

The search for a treasure hunter who found sunken gold and then stiffed his partners by vanishing with the loot could be coming to a highway near you. The U.S. Marshals Service began using alerts...

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NGC Security Image Archive Reaches 7 Million Coins

2013-05-07T23:22:00.001-05:00

Free Coin Price Guides NGC security images show the obverse and reverse of a coin in its NGC holder immediately after encapsulation SARASOTA, Fla. (April 29, 2013) – Numismatic...

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Royal Mint Issues Silver “Year of the Snake” Coin

2013-05-06T09:03:00.001-05:00

Silver Coin Melt Values Just months after the successful launch of a new fineness of 99.99 gold and 99.9 silver in their highly-regarded bullion range, The Royal Mint has announced an innovative...

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Avoiding Counterfeit Gold and Silver

2013-05-05T11:05:00.002-05:00

In March 2012, a 1 kilo tungsten gold bar turned up in the United Kingdom. Then in September 2012 there were reports on a slew of 10 oz tungsten gold bars bought and sold in New York's jewelry...

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Tortugas Shipwreck Treasure Revealed

2013-05-04T14:54:00.002-05:00

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., a pioneer in the field of deep-ocean exploration, has published a new series of scientific papers on the Tortugas shipwreck which was originally excavated in 1990...

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Gold and Silver Not to be Legal Tender in Arizona

2013-05-03T11:12:00.000-05:00

Free Coin Price Guides PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer refused Thursday to make Arizona the second state in the nation to declare privately minted gold and silver coins, bars and ingots to be legal tender...

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Family Discovers Treasure in Hidden Safe

2013-05-02T09:53:00.001-05:00

Last week, a Tennessee family embarked on a treasure hunt straight out of the movies -- and their amazing discoveries were posted to Reddit last night. Just over a week ago, Reddit user...

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Baseball Hall of Famers to Judge Coin Design

2013-05-01T11:33:00.003-05:00

Silver Coin Melt Values Joe Morgan, Brooks Robinson, Ozzie Smith, Don Sutton and Dave Winfield to Judge Obverse Design (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – Five of the game’s greatest players of the 20th century...

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Atheists Sue to Remove 'In God We Trust'from U.S. Currency

2013-03-17T02:44:00.000-05:00

Free Coin Price Guides The 1864 two-cent coin was the first to display "In God We Trust." The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), is suing the United States Treasury Department to...

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The Least Valuable Coin in the World

2013-02-28T12:29:00.003-06:00

Silver Coin Melt Values You wouldn't think an entire country could turn on a dime, but after 155 years, Canada has finally turned on the penny. According to National Post, the Canadian government...

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Pieces of Eight from West Cornwall Shipwreck Sold

2013-02-26T11:23:00.002-06:00

Coins recovered from a West Cornwall shipwreck that still inspire visions of pirates and buried treasure have sold at auction. The 17th Century Cob and piece of eight were recovered from the wreck...

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Coin Collector May Have Only 1912 Buffalo Nickel

2013-02-25T09:03:00.000-06:00

Free Coin Price Guides AMERICUS — In 1960, when Chuck Wachob was 17, he worked at a bank in Middletown, Pa., handling bags of money from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. His job was specifically to...

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Audit at N.Y. Fed Find Gold Purer Than Thought

2013-02-25T08:51:00.004-06:00

NEW YORK -- The U.S. government’s gold in New York is safe in a vault underneath Manhattan, and some of the precious metal there is purer than previously thought. That’s according to a first-ever...

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Minting Coins Cost U.S. Taxpayers $436 Million: Chart of the Day

2013-02-25T08:46:00.000-06:00

Pennies and nickels have cost more than their face value to mint since 2006, resulting in a loss of at least $436 million to U.S. taxpayers. The chart of the day shows that in 2012, the penny cost...

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Discovery Channel to Air Recovery of 48 Tons of Silver from the Gairsoppa Shipwreck

2013-02-21T09:19:00.001-06:00

Silver Coin Melt Values Tampa, FL - February 7, 2013 - Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NasdaqCM: OMEX), pioneers in the field of deep-ocean exploration, will be featured on Discovery Channel’s...

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Rare Coin Belonging to Deceased Mountaineer Found in Attic

2013-01-25T07:00:00.001-06:00

Free Coin Price Guides A man who died in a climbing accident unknowingly bequeathed a valuable inheritance to his family - a rare coin struck after the turbulent birth of the United States. The...

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National Collector's Mint Lied About Ground Zero Silver in WTC Commemorative Coins

2013-01-20T06:46:00.002-06:00

Silver Coin Melt Values The Federal Trade Commission is coming down hard on a company seeking to cash in on phony 9/11 memorabilia. National Collector's Mint, based out of Port Chester, NY, was...

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U.S. Mint Sells Out 2013 American Eagle Silver Coin

2013-01-18T14:33:00.002-06:00

Free Coin Price Guides They may not be making any platinum coins, and they may not be able to sell their presidential dollars, but the U.S. mint has reportedly sold out of its 2013 American Eagle...

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Royal Canadian Mint Release 100th Anniversary Arctic Expedition Proof Silver Dollar Coin

2013-01-13T16:52:00.005-06:00

Ottawa, Ontario, January 8, 2013 — Passionate about making people discover Canada through its coins, the Royal Canadian Mint is pleased to commemorate the watershed discoveries of the 1913 Canadian...

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Coin Collectors Strike Their Own $1 Coins at Mint

2013-01-08T09:48:00.001-06:00

Silver Coin Melt Values People queued in Canberra on Tuesday to pay $3 for $1 coins. Were they being soft in the head and an embezzler's dream? No, they were hard-headed and fun-seeking...

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Australia's Holey Dollars Reappear

2013-01-08T09:21:00.004-06:00

Royal Australian Mint Images The bicentenary of Australia’s first coins, the Holey Dollar and Dump, has been recognised on Australia’s first coin of the year in the traditional coin strike on New...

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Call to Ban US Company from Warship's Treasure in Gold Coins . . . Again?

2013-01-07T17:00:00.003-06:00

Is Britain taking a cue from Spain? US treasure hunters should be banned from raising the wreck of one of Britain’s greatest warships and taking some of the millions of pounds of gold coins she is...

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The Trillion Dollar Coin Idea is Back

2013-01-05T06:22:00.002-06:00

Free Coin Price Guides The trillion dollar coin idea for solving the debt ceiling crisis has made the rounds in the news again. The idea appears to have originated prior to 2011 by someone under...

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