Two mid-century half dollars were standouts at Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Aug. 15 Rarities Night auction at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money.
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McDonald’s is celebrating the 50th birthday of the Big Mac by giving away free burgers. McDonald’s is giving away more than 6 million “MacCoins” today at 14,000 locations around the U.S. The coins are only available as supplies last but can be redeemed for a free Big Mac from Aug. 3 through the end of the
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Let’s talk about the common ones first. Any silver certificate from 1957 or 1935 is extremely common. That also goes for any combination of letters like 1957B or 1935F. They are all worth around $1.50 in circulated condition and about $5 in perfect condition. These can be bought by the 100s at shows or coin
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A policeman who found £15,000 of gold coins with his metal detector has been sacked for cheating the landowner out of a share of the treasure. PC David Cockle last month admitted theft and keeping the proceeds of the sale of coins found in a Norfolk field. A misconduct hearing was told Cockle had agreed
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1918 Alexander Hamilton $1,000 bill, USA The 1918 Alexander Hamilton $1,000 bill easily sells for between $7500 and $10,000 at auction depending on the condition of the note. That’s up to ten times their printed value. 1929 Bank of New Zealand £100 bill, New Zealand You might not know this but New Zealand had
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Oct. 8, 2018 10:51 AM ET It is possible to identify a theoretical price ceiling for Bitcoin simply by measuring the maximum throughput of the network. The soft limit and the hard limit differ, but each tells a similar story. By comparing the price today to the theoretical maximum price, we can limit downside exposure.
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Initiative Q is not, in any way, a cryptocurrency. But it might just be the new Bitcoin. In just four months, the ‘payment system of the future’ has built a network of nearly three million adopters by offering ever-decreasing sums of their future currency in exchange for an e-mail address. Despite attracting over 100,000 new users each day,
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Whitman Publishing has released an expanded, updated second edition of its best-selling Guide Book of Lincoln Cents, a popular entry in the Bowers Series of numismatic titles. The book continues in the tradition of the Guide Book of Morgan Silver Dollars and other Bowers Series guides, now numbering more than two dozen volumes. The 320-page full-color book is available
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A mule note is simply a Series of notes that uses back plates from a different Series. Mule notes can be produced by using back plates from a prior Series — The Series 1963 $1 Federal Reserve Note, for example, has new face plates, but uses back plates from Series 1957 B $1 Silver Certificates.
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Rusted Die Definition: A die with a rusted or corroded surface. The roughened and pitted areas will be transferred to the coin as areas of raised metal. This 1921(P) Morgan dollar shows patches of raised metal on the reverse face. This condition was probably caused by a rusty die.
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