November 30, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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Submitted by World Coin News
New circulating commemoratives:
“50 pence Girl Guides Centenary”
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: CuNi
Weight: 8.00 g
Diameter: 27.30 mm
Edge: plain
Obverse designer: Jonathan Evans and Donna Hainan
“1 pound City Series: London & Belfast”
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: Nickel-brass
Weight: 9,50 g
Diameter: 22,50 mm
Edge: Inscription
Obverse designer: Stuart Devlin
“2 pounds Florence Nightingale - 100th anniversary of her death”
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: CuNi / Nickel-brass (Bimetallic)
Weight: 12,00 g
Diameter: 28,40 mm
Edge: [...]
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November 30, 2009 at 7:28 pm
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Submitted by World Coin News
New circulating type. It is magnetic, as it has a steel core. So, it is a new KM, different from KM283.1 and KM283.2, although the design is exactly the same.
(information by Guillermo Granados)
Notes from Wolfgang Schuster: the vast majority of the ordinary 50 pesos issues from 2007 and 2008 are still [...]
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November 30, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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LONDON, Nov. 29 (UPI) — A former British counterfeiter says it was relatively easy for him to produce mass quantities of phony 1-pound coins.
Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, Bill Cook, 62, who served four years for the crime and now lives on a barge on a London canal, said that for $132,000 he was able to purchase the hydraulic presses and equipment needed to mint the coins from blank metal discs, which only cost pennies apiece.
“We’d phone a number, they’d tell us to leave a van on a street in (East London), for instance, and then we’d get a call telling us when it was ready,” Cook told the newspaper. “We’d put 5,000 blanks at a time into vibrating machines along with a jewelery-cleaning compound and a drop of water. By the time the machine had finished its cycle, the blanks were nice and clean.”
After finishing the process with other machines, newly minted 1-pound coins were ready for distribution. Cook told the newspaper that on a good day, he could produce as many as 20,000 coins, though he says it was usually closer to 10,000.
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November 30, 2009 at 2:01 am
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This is one of the proposed designs for the new Lincoln Cent, which will be the permanent reverse beginning in 2010.
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November 30, 2009 at 2:01 am
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This is one of the proposed designs for the new Lincoln Cent, which will be the permanent reverse beginning in 2010.
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November 29, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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A friend sent this unprovenanced report via email, which ironically was passed over a wireless system:
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: ‘California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.
One week later, The Kansas City Star, a local newspaper in K.C., Mo, reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Warsaw, Mo, Bubba Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Mo. had already gone wireless.. “
Just makes you proud to be from Missouri !
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November 28, 2009 at 11:00 pm
· Filed under General Coins
New circulating commemoratives:
“50 pence Girl Guides Centenary”
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: CuNi
Weight: 8.00 g
Diameter: 27.30 mm
Edge: plain
Obverse designer: Jonathan Evans and Donna Hainan
“1 pound City Series: London & Belfast”
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: Nickel-brass
Weight: 9,50 g
Diameter: 22,50 mm
Edge: Inscription
Obverse designer: Stuart Devlin
“2 pounds Florence Nightingale - 100th anniversary of her death”
SPECIFICATIONS
Material: CuNi / Nickel-brass (Bimetallic)
Weight: 12,00 g
Diameter: 28,40 mm
Edge: Inscription
Obverse designer: Gordon Summer
(information by Peter Kaminsky)
LINK: British Royal Mint
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November 28, 2009 at 2:01 am
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This is one of the proposed designs for the new Lincoln Cent, which will be the permanent reverse beginning in 2010.
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November 27, 2009 at 11:00 pm
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New circulating type. It is magnetic, as it has a steel core. So, it is a new KM, different from KM283.1 and KM283.2, although the design is exactly the same.
(information by Guillermo Granados)
Notes from Wolfgang Schuster: the vast majority of the ordinary 50 pesos issues from 2007 and 2008 are still in the old metal, non magnetic. In addition to those there are very very few and really difficult to find of these magnetic types.
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November 27, 2009 at 6:18 pm
· Filed under General Coins
Submitted by World Coin News
New commemoratives:
“150 years of Burke and Wills expedition”
(information by Pabitra Saha)
LINK: Royal Australian Mint
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