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The 1894-S Dime Recently Sold for $1,440,000, is Now In a Professional Coin Grading Service Holder, Graded PCGS PR65+ The anonymous winning bidder for one of the most famous United States coins, the ultra-rare 1894-S Barber Dime that recently sold at auction for $1,440,000, has submitted the coin to Professional Coin Grading Service for Crossover … Read more
Promptly acting on a tip from a concerned collector, the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation’s Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (ACTF) has notified law enforcement agencies and online shopping platform Amazon.com about a seller who is in apparent violation of federal laws involving reproductions of rare coins. The seller using the name SeTing offered nine reproductions of coins and … Read more
Famed ‘Del Monte Note’ offered at auction Jan. 22 by Heritage Auctions When is a banana sticker worth $25,000? When it’s stuck to the front of a $20 bill. Heritage Auctions will offer the famed “Del Monte Note” – what is considered perhaps the most famous of all U.S. obstructed error banknotes – at auction … Read more
Professional Coin Grading Service recently has announced the winners of the 2020 PCGS Set Registry Awards and new inductees to the PCGS Set Registry Hall of Fame. For nearly two decades, PCGS has recognized top collectors and their collections with awards and other special honors. When the PCGS Set Registry Awards launched in 2002, just … Read more
Three Collectors Splitting $2,000 Bounty for Submitting First 2020-W Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Quarters for Grading by Professional Coin Grading Service Professional Coin Grading Service Quarter Quest 2020 continues with three winners tying as the first to submit the first examples of the 2020-W Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Kansas Quarter for grading. The Tallgrass Prairie … Read more
Funded only by donations, the nonprofit Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation worked with law enforcement agencies in 2020 to protect collectors, dealers and the general public by helping remove from the marketplace over $1 million of counterfeit rare coins and precious metals items, according to a year-end update from the foundation. Among the cases, ACEF and its … Read more