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Natanya Van Niekerk Receives COTY Lifetime Achievement Award

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World Coin Auctions

Spink China Presents Beginnings of Barrett Collection

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COTY Winning Apollo 11 Coin Overcame Challenges

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Künker Auction Nets Over $11 Million With Only 721 Lots

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Big Prices at SARC Auction 39

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Gold Corrections Result from Anticipated Inflation

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World Coin New Issues

Canada’s Black Loyalists Honored on Coin

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World Coin News

Next Step in Excellence for the Monnaie de Paris

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Bluenose Centennial Kicks Off RCM's 2021

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World Coin New Issues

APEC Coins Endorse Cooperation

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World Coin Auctions

Rare Royal Rocks at $396,000 in Sedwick Auction

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World Coin Auctions

Stack’s Features Rare Latin American Gold for NYINC Auction

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World Coin New Issues

Royal Mint Launches ‘Diversity Built Britain’ Coin

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EID MAR Brutus Aureus Sells for Nearly $4.2 Million

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World Coins

RAM Releases Donation Dollar

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Merna Dudley Remembered

The “Cocobola” Cincuenta centavos struck at Bogota in 1888 is one of the great rarities in the Colombian half dollar series. Only five are known and only two of them have surfaced at auction to the best of my knowledge. (All images courtesy Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC.)
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Legendary 1888 Cocobola Surfaces at Sedwick Auction 27

The “Pavilion” dollar was issued to commemorate the succession of Hsu Shih-chang to the office of President in 1918, and in celebration of his 67th birthday. This example was engraved for Dr. Ralph Garfield Mills and realized $130,900 with buyers’ premium.
World Coins

SARC Auction 37 Nets $1.85 Million

Refinery employee Phillip Downer stamps a 1,000-ounce silver bar at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa. Downer has worked throughout the pandemic as the RCM re-prioritized operations to focus on bullion in support of the mining industry and financial sector. (Image courtesy Royal Canadian Mint.)
World Coin News

Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape, Part V

The obverse and reverse of the 30th Anniversary coin of the Australian kookaburra comes in silver proof with a selective gilding around the coin. (Images courtesy Perth Mint)
World Coins

Kookaburra Celebrates 30 Years

Showcasing Duke Friedrich, this coin is one of the great rarities in numismatics, being the first Danish portrait coin. Struck in 1522, only a few examples of the Husumer taler are known. This one will be sold by Künker Münzauktionen in June as the firm returns to a live auction format. (Images courtesy Künker.)
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Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape, Part IV

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Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape Part III

The grand Heritage Auctions building in Dallas, Texas, offers a comfortable office atmosphere for the majority of its staff. There is no open coin counter in the building, so call in to set up an appointment if you plan to visit. (Image courtesy Wikipedia.org, user submitted.)
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Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape, Part II

At the opening of the 16th Annual Technical Forum at the World Money Fair 2020 (from left): Dieter Merkel of Schuler Pressen, Albert Beck, WMF founder and honorary president, and Thomas Hogenkamp of Spaleck, each also Coin of the Year judges. (Photo by Andreas Schoelzel, courtesy of World Money Fair.)
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Forum Spotlights Latest in Coin Technology

This Iranian gold toman of Nasir al-Din Shah who ruled from 1848 to 1896 displays only a partial date of issue above the shoulder, though the accession year remains full and clear above his left.
World Coins

SARC Online Auction 7 Offers Worldwide Variety

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Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape, Part I

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World Coins

Pakistan Issues 40 Rupee for Afghan Refugees Conference

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Finnish Designer Receives COTY Lifetime Achievement Honors

Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion - The first in the new Twelve Labours of Hercules series from Pobjoy Mint for Girbraltar.
World Coins

Labours of Hercules Returns to Gibraltar

Artfully designed to replicate the original Apple Blossom Egg in all its glory, this high relief beauty comes in an egg shaped metal case with foam padding to keep your memento of the Great Russian jeweler, Peter Carl Fabergé, safe for a lifetime in your collection.
World Coins

New Coin Blossoms from CIT

This Olive Ridley Turtle fifty pence wraps up the Sea Turtle series of coins issued for British Indian Ocean Territories and produced by the Pobjoy Mint.
World Coins

The Turtle Series Comes to an End

This gold plated silver Incredible Hulk coin/medallion was produced in 1974 by Hallmark Minting for sale through Marvel Comic books.
World Coin Auctions

Golden Hulk Smashes $500 Mark

The young Faisal II is featured on this 1943 AH1362 copper 4 Fils graded MS64 by PCGS. This beautiful example realized just over its top-end estimate selling for about $310.
World Coins

Iraq Coinage a Hot Area for Stephen Album Online Auction

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World Coins

Dix Noonan Webb Auction 165 Brings British Coinage and Medals

From the little German State of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingfurst, a beautiful BU one year type Kreuzer from 1768.
World Coins

Look to WAG Online Auctions for Classic and Modern Coinage

The reverse of the 2019 Native American $1 enhanced uncirculated coin shows Mary Golda Ross and features a background set in Space. (Image courtesy of the U.S. Mint.)
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Mint Shines with Native American Dollar Series

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World Coins

Doubly Devastating Loss to Argentine Numismatics

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World Coins

Burmese Kingdom Coinage Collection Sells at Stephen Album Rare Coins Auction 35

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World Coin Auctions

Medals all Around

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Rare 1809 Gerona issue has rich history

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SCWC 1601-1700 now in seventh edition

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Contributor's newsletter introduction (Quarter Three)

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Using Excel spreadsheets

The Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th edition.
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Structure of data

The 2017 North American Coins & Prices will feature a reworked Mexican War of Independence section.
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Contributor's newsletter schedule (Quarter two, 2016)

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The future of contributing

Work is progressing on the Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000 44th Edition with updated mintages, new circulation dates and prices.
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Contributor's Newsletter Schedule (Quarter One, 2016)

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