Posted in general on May 27th, 2010 Comments Off on Harry Eccleston: artist and banknote designer
Harry Eccleston worked for more than 25 years as a banknote designer at the Bank of England and was best known for the series D notes, issued in 1978 and the first fully pictorial series. Eccleston’s portrait of the Queen was on the front of the notes and his drawings of Isaac Newton (£1), the […]
Posted in general on Mar 5th, 2009 Comments Off on
A small-town pharmacist intrigued by the government’s economic stimulus plan decided to launch his own version with $16,000 in $2 bills, and area stores have already felt the impact. Danny Cottrell gave each of his full-time employees $700 and part-timers $300. He asked them to donate 15 percent to charity and spend the rest locally, […]
Posted in general on May 8th, 2008 Comments Off on Server/Software Upgrade
Upgraded the new packages… WordPress 2.5.1 + WP eCommerce 3.6.1 Please let us know if you run into any errors or issues with the website. Note, Product Tags are just now being implemented so they may not work…, fixed 5/9/08 Should speed things up. Thanks! Sincerely, Upper Management, Powers that be…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Dumping Gold
The Fed has Sold Half of all US Gold to Suppress Gold Prices  This could be a good thing for new collector’s looking to score some gold for their collections… bad if you are planning to ‘retire’ on your “gold assets”. Current gold buillion prices have drop by $6 today on normal trading levels… this […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal
Further evidence that times are tough: It now costs more than a penny to make a penny. And the cost of a nickel is more than 7½ cents. That doesn’t make much fiscal “cents”!!! Prices for copper, zinc and nickel have some in Congress proposing steel-made pennies and nickels. Surging prices for copper, zinc and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2007 Comments Off on Finskie
“The new $5 bills will be safer, smarter and more secure.” Sounds like a commercial for the new Bionic Woman… Scheduled for public release in early 2008, the new “finskie” sports Lincoln’s best side in a distinguished portrait shot that will surely scare would be counterfeit operatives away. It’s still just plain money paper… nothing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2007 Comments Off on New ways to detect a bogus coin
BYU physics student Jeff Brown, who will graduate on Thursday, examines a coin… He says he has created four or five methods for unveiling counterfeits. Although you may not have all the resources necessary to do this at home it will be a great resource in providing grading service companies to prove the authenticity of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Million Dollar Coin – Update
The most valuable coin ever offered in an online-only auction will be available in the Teletrade® Premier Plus auction #2409 on August 16, 2007. It will be the first auction of the world’s largest gold coin, a 100 kilogram $1 million (Canadian) denomination coin recently produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. “This is an exciting, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2007 Comments Off on MILLION-DOLLAR GOLD COIN
There have been at least a few takers for the massive new Royal Canadian Mint gold coin: “The Royal Canadian Mint has sold five of its $1-million gold collector coins, and at least four of them are headed where the money is – to the West Coast. ‘But as the mint and the dealers disclosed, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2007 Comments Off on Shipwreck treasure has experts speculating
The Atlantic Ocean has given up 17 tons of colonial-era coins in what could be the richest shipwreck treasure ever. One coin expert estimated the value at $500 million or about $1,000 a coin. But what affect will years of sea water have on the silver and gold coins recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration of […]
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