Weekly World Numismatic News for April 22, 2018
The royal mints in the Commonwealth Realm are have returned to court with the Royal Canadian Mint accusing the Royal Australian Mint of stealing the technology it uses to print coins. In January, it...
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Here is a way to acknowledge your history and have some fun with it as well. After the British discovery of Australia in 1770, they initially settled the colony of New South Whales by exiling criminals...
View ArticleWeekly World Numismatic News for January 13, 2019
Pairing U.S. coins with a foreign coin for sale has been done in the past by the U.S. Mint. In 2002, the U.S. Mint offered the “Legacies of Freedom” This week, the U.S. Mint announced a collaborative...
View ArticleAussies to Release Apollo 11 Commemorative with US Half
While perusing my Twitter feed, I found the announcement from the Royal Australian Mint is beginning the presale of the two-coin set honoring the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. Celebrating the 50th...
View ArticleUpdate on Royal Australian Mint Apollo 11 Commemorative Set
With the pre-sale of the Royal Australian Mint’s 2019 two-coin set honoring the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 beginning, a customer service representative from the Mint clarified their shipping policy....
View ArticleWeekly World Numismatic News for May 19, 2019
Five coins were found by a soldier while fishing in 1944. He put the coins away and forgot about them only to rediscover them again in 1979. When he sent them to a museum for identification, they...
View ArticleWeekly World Numismatic News for October 13, 2019
George Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher, writer, and poet who influenced many of the decision-makers in the early 20th Century. In 1905, Santayana wrote The Life of Reason: Reason in Common...
View ArticleWeekly World Numismatic News for October 20, 2019
Perusing the wide world of coins, I noticed that it is only here in the United States that collectors complain about modern coinage. Why? My Twitter followers (@coinsblog) have seen the articles coming...
View ArticleWeekly World Numismatic News for December 15, 2019 +2
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… especially if you are in retail and your sales are tripling! I hope to be on time with next week’s news report. Until then, here is what I had planned to say...
View ArticleWeekly World Numismatic News for February 23, 2020
Aussie coin collectors are scouring through their change, looking for a Mule Dollar. A woman from Melbourne found an Australian dollar coin where the obverse was different from the others. The...
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