Highlights make world premiere at Hong Kong International Numismatic Fair official auctions June 25-27 A collector’s pick of world and ancient coins among the nearly 1,000 lots on offer may see contemporary Chinese coins ready to grow in market share at this spring’s Hong Kong International Numismatic Fair official auctions. The coin show itself has … Read more
The never-before-seen exhibit will showcase hundreds of superb condition coins, including the famous King of Siam proof set For the first time ever, the public will be able to see the superb quality type set of more than 400 U.S. coins from the acclaimed Tyrant Collection (TheTyrantCollection.com) at the Chicago World’s Fair of Money (WorldsFairofMoney.com), … Read more
If genuine, the intercepted counterfeits would have a retail value of about $2 million Representatives of the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation (www.ACEFonline.org) and its Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (ACTF) on the request of the Secret Service provided on-site numismatic expertise to federal law enforcement agents in the Los Angeles area who seized more than 40,000 fake Morgan … Read more
Historic sunken treasure is finally back in The Big Easy after a 167-year journey from the California Gold Rush, an arduous railroad trip across Panama, and being submerged more than 7,000 feet underwater when the S.S. Central America sank in 1857 A unique, sunken treasure gold coin that made its way from New Orleans to … Read more
The latest book in the “Money, Mayhem & Might Saga” is titled Minting, Printing & Counterfeiting, just released by Talisman & Coiner Productions, LLC, of Hagerstown, Maryland. Our new book deals with how the profound financial pressures of sustaining a Civil War — in both the North and the South — forced changes in old ways of … Read more
First offering of these historic coins retrieved in 2014 from Atlantic Ocean site where fabled “Ship of Gold” sank in 1857 Two of the finest known, very rare 1855 and 1856 Australian sovereigns as well as an interesting mix of 74 other sunken treasure gold coins from Europe and South America that were also recovered … Read more