- Denmark’s queen celebrates 50th August 16, 2017On June 10, Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. To mark the occasion, Danmarks Nationalbank has issued a 38.00 mm, 31.1 g .999 fine silver 500 kroner commemorative coin. The obverse of new issue features a portrait of the royal couple facing each other, both in three-quarters profile. The legend ...
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- Few enhanced uncirculated sets left I was wrong. In my Aug. 9 blog, I wrote that I expected the sales number for the 225th Anniversary Enhanced Uncirculated Coin Set to decline over the coming week. It didn’t. It went up. But the set is still not sold out. As of Aug. 13, according to the U.S. Mint, 223,310 of the sets had been sold. That is an ...
- Community Voice Responses (Aug. 29, 2017) From the Aug. 4 Numismatic News E-Newsletter: Should the Mint have set an order limit for the 225th Anniversary Enhanced Uncirculated Coin Set? Here are some answers sent from our e-newsletter readers to Editor Dave Harper. Yes, the U.S. Mint should have limited the number of special uncirculated sets per order/customer. Rob Geyer San Francisco, Calif. Yes, there should be a ...
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