Category: Numismatic
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☆How to start collecting old coins?
Coin collecting is one of the best indoor hobbies that can be fun as well as informational. The process of coin collection is so simple that you can even start right now. If you are about to buy old coins, don’t expect them to be of poor condition as the vendors polish the coins to…
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Half Cent Coin History.
The half cent was among the first coin strikes authorized by the U.S. Congress on April 2, 1792. Designed by Adam Eckfeldt and first released in 1793, it was minted at the Philadelphia Mint periodically until 1857. Its metal composition was of copper and weighed of 6.74 grams. It is the smallest-denomination coin ever minted…
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The quality of gold coins.
All too often, buyers of investment gold tend to forget the quality of the coins they are buying, until they come to sell them, when they are greeted with an unpleasant surprise. In reality, when you sell gold coins they are evaluated as numismatic objects. Saying “it’s a Liberty Double Eagle so I can sell…
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Coin discovery thrills archaeologists
The archaeologists have been following excavations done by city workers who are replacing underground water pipes in the oldest part of Oslo, called Gamlebyen. That’s the neighborhoods east of today’s downtown area where Oslo’s first known settlements were established more than a thousand years ago. It’s also where there are ruins of churches and homes…