‘Mules’ in auction of Doug Murray large-size notes collection
Included are varieties of the $1, $2, $5, and $10 1862 and 1863 legal tender notes. The auction also offers nearly three dozen large-size mules, including 16 of the Series 1899
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WEB NOTES: Dollar Bills Worth a TON of Money
Web Notes: The BEP’s experimental web-fed press was used from 1992 to 1996 to print $1 notes in Series 1988A, 1993, and 1995.
World’s Fair of Money POSTPONED and PNG Day CANCELED by ANA
The American Numismatic Association announced today the suspension of the 2020 World’s Fair of Money. The show, originally scheduled for Aug. 4-8 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the largest annual coin and paper-currency hobby event in the United States. The ANA Board of Governors was deliberating the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the show and whether …
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Singapore Coin Show Moved due to Coronavirus
Organizers of the Singapore International Coin Fair have announced new dates for the show because of Coronavirus.
Professional Numismatists Guild get $100,000 Donation
A donation of $100,000 to the Professional Numismatists Guild will go entirely to the hobby’s effort to fight fakes. Half of the money came from Wayde Milas, RARCOA Chief Executive Officer in Willowbrook, Ill. Half came from Standard Numismatics LLC President Brett Charville. His firm is located in Chicago. The two had agreed to merge their firms, …
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Gold Value Rises as Silver Declines
Precious metals futures split in the mid-week trading session Wednesday. Gold was among the winners, rising for a second session in a row as U.S. stocks sank on the day. Gold for December delivery rose $1.90, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,193.40 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. “Gold is holding steady …
Drone Footage of Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that caused severe and extensive damage in the Carolinas in September 2018, primarily as a result of freshwater flooding. Florence dropped a maximum total of 35.93 inches (913 mm) of rain in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, becoming the wettest tropical cyclone recorded in North Carolina, and also the eighth-wettest overall in the contiguous United States. The sixth named …
Final 2019 W quarters found week before official release
An Arkansas collector located more than 300 2019-W Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness quarter dollars Oct. 29, a week before the scheduled Nov. 4 release into general circulation through the Federal Reserve.