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 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 30, 2009 at 2:01 am
· Filed under General Coins
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
· Filed under General Coins
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
· Filed under General Coins
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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