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Heritage sale brings nearly $6 million
At top, reverse of the rare and top-selling 1917 Great British sovereign that realized $28,800 at Heritage’s successful Long Beach sale. At bottom, obverse of 6th issue hammered Elizabeth I gold pound...
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Coin Finds: Luck plays a part
We recently asked you, our readers, to share your best numismatic finds with us. Based on the long-running “Coin Finds” column in Coins magazine, which will continue to appear in print, this online...
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Heritage Long Beach World Coins
The Heritage Auctions ANA sales are still a month off, yet such is the way of today’s numismatic world that shortly after these concludes in mid-August Long Beach waits just around the corner. In point...
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Islamic Gold Dinar realizes over $4 Million
We have recently learned that one of the world’s rarest and most highly-prized of all Islamic gold coins, or any coin, was sold by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London on Thursday, Oct....
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NGC-certified Russian Rarity Realizes Almost $500,000 in Swiss Auction
SARASOTA, Fla. (Oct. 30, 2019) — Vintage Russian coins certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) did extremely well at the SINCONA sale of Russian coins and medals, held Oct. 21, 2019, in...
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Donald Scarinci on ‘100 Greatest Modern World Coins’ Book
Donald Scarinci(Photo courtesy Whitman Publishing.) In March 2020 Whitman Publishing will release 100 Greatest Modern World Coins by numismatists Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker. Here, Donald...
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Kuenker Brings Rarities to World Money Fair
Auction house Künker from Osnabrück will offer 1,077 lots with world coins and medals in Berlin on Jan. 30, 2020 before the beginning of the World Money Fair. The day starts with the Prof Dr. Rudolf...
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Finnish Designer Receives COTY Lifetime Achievement Honors
By Thomas Michael The winner of this year’s Coin of the Year Lifetime Achievement award – Reijo Paavilainen. This year’s recipient of the Coin of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award, Finnish sculptor,...
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Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape, Part IV
View all installments of the five-part Industry Insider series. By Tom Michael In our first three articles we have shared information on the rise in retail sales for bullion coins and the difficulties...
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Ghana Coin and Bank Note Trade Deemed Illegal
Trading in coins or bank notes of Ghana is illegal. If you’ve ever considered becoming a coin dealer in Ghana, you might want to think twice. The Bank of Ghana, the African nation’s central bank,...
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