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News Archive (2008)
 

International News - September 2008

3 arrested in Maple Leaf coin scam
By By Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, The Vancouver Sun
U.S. investigators have cracked what they're calling a "million-dollar gold coin scam" involving counterfeit versions of the Royal Canadian Mint's famous one-ounce Maple Leaf coin.

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Value Compression in the Rare Date Gold Coin Market
By Doug Winter – RareGoldCoins.com
The recent Coin World “Coin Values” (or Trends as we long-time dealers call it) features a number of price reductions in the various Liberty Head gold series. This has caused some interesting pricing anomalies that have major ramifications for collectors of rare date gold coins.
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NGC Certifies Coins of the Famed Chipping Norton Hoard
By NGC
Discovered by chance, these coins are an important find, being of great historic significance. NGC was pleased to evaluate and provide protection for these great treasures.

NGC recently graded a number of gold Unites of the British monarch James I (1603–1625) from the Chipping Norton Hoard, discovered in the 1980s in an undisclosed location near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England
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First Man On The Moon 2009 Silver Proof Orbital Coin Issued
By CoinNews
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of a technological and historically significant event, The Perth Mint has released the First Man On The Moon 2009 Silver Proof ‘Orbital’ Coin. This coin is the fourth of five in a set of releases that are part of the Perth’s Orbit and Beyond series.
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Dayton mint draws hundreds of riders for Harley coin
By Rob Sabo Northern Nevada Business Weekly
The striking of a commemorative coin for Harley-Davidson owners on Wednesday drew a host of Nevada dignitaries and legions of motorcycle owners from around the country to the Northwest Territorial Mint in Dayton.
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Specimen Find Defies Catalogs
By Kerry Rodgers, Bank Note Reporter
The Australian catalogs are quite explicit. All concur with Mick Vort-Ronald's definitive book on Australian decimal notes: no paper specimens are known that carry the signatures of R.A. Johnston and B.W. Fraser. That situation, however, changed in late August.
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Bar Kochba-era coin cache found in cave
By Jweekly.com
The largest ever cache of coins from the period of the Bar Kochba revolt was found in a cave in the Judean Hills. The 120 gold, silver and bronze coins, as well as some pottery and weapons, were discovered during a cave research and mapping project by Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University researchers.
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No Longer Unique: Second Close AM 1992 Cent Found
By Ken Potter, Numismatic News
A second known specimen of the elusive 1992 Philadelphia minted Lincoln cent struck with a "Close AM" (of AMERICA) design style reverse has been reported. Kie Brown of Gales Ferry, Conn., found it while searching circulated rolls of Lincoln cents on July 24.
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25-Cent Canadian 2010 Olympic Commemorative Coins Selected
By CoinNews
Men’s Hockey Gold at Salt Lake City 2002 Voted by Fans as Top Canadian Olympic Winter Games Moment of All Time

TORONTO — It was a momentous victory that united a country in pride and passion, cementing Canada’s position atop the hockey world and proving once and for all that hockey is Canada’s game.
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Cornerstone™ Releases The First Album For 2010 National Park Quarters!
By CoinNews
NEWPORT BEACH — With the release of the new quarter series in 2010, the national park quarters, collectors abroad will be scrambling to find information and protection for their newly acquired pieces.
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