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A rare coin worth up to £80,000 ($140,000) was briefly advertised for sale on the internet auction site eBay before its mystery seller removed the ad from the site.
The 1933 one penny coin appeared on eBay this week, with bidding reaching more than £1100 before the owner - known only as Suzane X - removed it from the site.
The Royal Mint did not plan to make any one penny coins...
Full Article: Rare British coin sparks eBay bidding war - then disappears - heraldsun.com.au
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George Lim began his coin and banknote collection 30 years ago with a single note, the first 10,000 Singapore dollar bill he received. "As soon as I made that amount, I saved it to remember it," says Mr. Lim, a Singaporean real-estate developer, whose collection today includes over 100 rare coins and banknotes.
Mr. Lim plans to auction 68 coins and notes from his collection in Hong Kong on Aug. 22. He hopes to cash in on growing interest in collectibles ...
Full Article: How to Cash In on Rare Coins - The Wall Street Journal
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A rare gold coin dating back 2,200 years was discovered by a combined university research team in Israel, a top Israeli antiquities official said Thursday.
Dr. Donald T. Ariel, head of the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said the coin ranked in the top five of the rarest finds in that country's history.
"Intrinsically, for coin research, it's a very exciting find," Ariel told CNN. "This is an amazing numismatic find. The coin is beautiful and in excellent preservation. It is the heaviest gold coin with the highest contemporary value of any coin ever found in an excavation in Israel."
Full Article: Rare 2,200-year-old gold coin found in Israel - CNN
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The second part of this study on San Francisco double eagles deals with the Type Two issues struck from 1866 to 1876. There are no absolute rarities in this series as with the Type One issues but there are a number condition rarities as well as affordable dates that are easy to locate in Extremely Fine and About Uncirculated grades.
Let's take a look at each date and focus on the higher grade coins as these tend to be the most interesting Type Two double eagles from this mint ...
Full Article: San Francisco Double Eagles: A Date by Date Analysis Part Two - RareGoldCoins.com
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Among early United States cents one of the rarest and most mysterious is Dr. William H. Sheldon’s variety number 79 having a reeded edge, an example of which has just been certified by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation. Only eight pieces are confirmed to exist, and this one has been off the market for some 30 years. Its last public appearance was in a 1977 auction by the now-defunct Numismatic and Antiquarian Service Corporation of America (NASCA). NGC has graded ...
Full Article: NGC Certifies Rare S-79 1795 Reeded Edge Liberty Cap Cent - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
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Collectors are hungry for genuinely rare coins, whether they be key large cents, deep mirror prooflike Morgan dollars or rare branch Mint Proof coins, and they are willing to spend what it takes to get what they want.
Middle Date Coronet cents, struck 1816 to 1839, historically have been viewed as less "sexy" than the Early Date cents of 1793 to 1814. The second auction of the Dan Holmes Collection, offered for sale on May 30 by ...
Full Article: Hungry for rare coinage - Coin Values
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It has been a long time since I’ve written anything about the San Francisco double eagles. As these coins have become increasingly popular over the course of time (they are actually the most popular gold coins from this mint by a considerable margin) I think this would be an excellent time to begin a series of articles. It is only natural to divide these coins into three groups and this would be as follows ...
Full Article: San Francisco Double Eagles: A Date by Date Analysis Part One - RareGoldCoins.com
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In what police described as an act of "genuine decency," rare coins and bills lost by a just-widowed man were found by another, who promptly turned them in to police.
Alexander Piascik, 76, of Wilsonville was at the bank Monday attending to personal affairs related to the recent death of his wife, said Clackamas County sheriff's office spokesman Det. Jim Strovink. Piascik placed a number of rare coins into ...
Full Article: Man finds and returns rare coins in Wilsonville - KGW.com
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The Museum of Islamic Art yesterday announced that it has received a collection of 1,000 silver Saudi one-riyal coins from Saudi businessman Bassam Omar Salama.
The collection was among 3mn Saudi one-riyal coins minted in the United States in 1944 during World War II at the request by then Saudi king Abdul Aziz bin Abdurrahman al-Saud. In a letter ...
Full Article: Saudi businessman gifts rare coins to museum - Gulf-Times
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