Coins DIG

In the period of April 16-19, 2008 Heritage Auction Galleries will host an auction featuring The Queller Family Collection of United States Silver Dollars, 1794-1935, which was gathered by Davind Queller. One of the most notable items on the auction will be the famous 1804 Bust dollar. The CSNS convention, which will be held in Rosemont (Illinois), is the place where Heritage Auction Galleries will be presenting Signature and Platinum Night sessions of coins and Currency.

Officials from the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) stated that counterfeit replica coin holders appeared on the market.

The roots of corporation's foundation date back to 1987, when the company was created with the goal of granting third party grades to coins. When coins arrive to NGC, the company then analyzes, grades, databases and afterwards it encapsulates the numismatic items in holders that are tamper resistant as well as protective.

A collection of extremely rare Roman coins were discovered in Bath. The exact location would be the site of a city centre hotel. Archaeologists so far have been able to find around 150 Roman coins during the works on the new Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa.

The man, who calls himself Paul Brant refers to himself as a penny pitcher. However, the quarters and dollar coins he saved really paid off.

The 70-year-old Brant used all his savings in change in order to purchase a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck, it is interesting to note that he bought his previous track 13 years ago using spare change as well.

There is a tradition that each year children from participating schools in the New York City gather pennies from their family and friends. Afterwards the collected pennies do not go to piggy banks but are stored in one place where they are trucked to the so-called Penny Harvest Field, which is a huge penny-holding construction located at Rockefeller Center.

A refund of $130 is given by the U.S. Mint to those who possess 2004 United States Mint Lewis and Clark Coin and Pouch Set. This is only in case Shawnee Nation United Remnant Band of Ohio created the pouch.

Syrian archaeologists were able to discover a cemetery, which dates back to Roman era, and namely to the 3^rd century BC. The cemetery was found 440 miles near the capital of Damascus, which is in the northeastern part of Syria.

A hot debate was to take place on the fact that the U.S. Treasury should be the one to control the level of metal composition in coins and whether the ban of extracting copper from the melting pennies should be lifted.

Several additional debates were to take place in House Committee on Financial Services regarding the same matter.

The leading auctioneer of coins, stamps, medals and banknotes, Spink, is to hold Auction 7030, which will take place in London on November 28th, 2007. Several ancient coins, English and foreign coins, as well as commemorative medals will be presented at the auction.