{Category Archives} Rare Coin Wholesalers
Vintner pays pretty penny for rare coin - Napa Valley Register
Jul 29 at 8:08pm
The old adage goes, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” For vintner Steven Contursi, a penny saved is more than $72,000 burned. The Napa Valley vineyard owner and California coin dealer’s boyhood quest for a rare find recently ended with the purchase of a 1943 bronze penny to the tune of $72,500.
Contursi, new owner of Little Creek Vineyard in the Coombsville area and president of Dana Point’s Rare Coin Wholesalers, bought the coveted coin from the family of its longtime owner.
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Article Tags: Lincoln Cents, Pennies, Rare Coin Wholesalers, Steven Contursi.
Previously Unaccounted 1943-S Bronze Cent Acquired by Rare Coin Wholesalers - Coin News
Jul 28 at 1:01pm
A previously unrecorded 1943-S Lincoln cent, erroneously struck on a bronze planchet and found in circulation by a teenaged collector over a half century ago, has been acquired by Rare Coin Wholesalers of Dana Point, California.
The discovery coin now is certified as AU-53 by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.
“The coin was found in 1944 by Kenneth S. Wing Jr. of Long Beach, California who was assembling a set of Lincoln cents at the time,” said Steven L. Contursi, President of Rare Coin Wholesalers (www.RCW1.com).
Wing became a prominent Southern California architect who co-designed the Long Beach Arena in the late 1950s. He passed away in 1996.
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Contursi to bring 1854 Kellogg $20 to Baltimore
Jun 30 at 3:03pm
The finest known U.S. territorial gold coin, the 1854 Kellogg & Co. $20, graded PCGS SP-69, will return to Baltimore for a public exhibit for the first time since it was sold by The John Hopkins University as part of the legendary Garrett Collection more than a quarter century ago.
“This is a homecoming. It’s the first time it will be publicly showcased in Baltimore in 28 years,” said Steven L. Contursi, President of Rare Coin Wholesalers of Dana Point, California (www.RCW1.com), the coin’s owner.
He is bringing it to Baltimore for an educational exhibit during the first four days of the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® in the Baltimore Convention Center, July 30 – August 3, 2008.
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Article Tags: American Numismatic Association, ANA, CoinNews, Contursi, Gold Coins, Rare Coin Wholesalers, World’s Fair of Money.