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1873 Dime Sells for $1.6M
A one-of-a-kind dime minted in 1873 sold for $1.6 million at a Philadelphia auction last night, reports AP . The coin depicts a seated Lady Liberty, and it is thought to be the lone survivor from a...
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Robbers Spend Rare Coins at Face Value ... on Pizza
A tip for rare-coin robbers: Spending your loot at face value for a pizza tends to draw a little attention. That's what police say happened when Dakoda Garren, 19, threw down an old Liberty quarter...
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Coin From 1652, Found in Potato Field, Sells for $430K
A silver Colonial Massachusetts coin from 1652 that was found in a potato field has been auctioned for $430,000. Newsday reports that a New York woman found the coin, one of just eight known to exist,...
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America's Most Fascinating Nickel Set to Fetch Millions
A humble five-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction a century after it was mysteriously minted, and bidding is expected to top $2 million. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five...
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Canadian Pennies Are No More
That's it for Canada's penny: Today is the last day the coin will be distributed after minting stopped in May as a cost-saving measure . Still, there are 6 billion pennies in circulation, so they could...
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Virginia to Consider Minting Its Own Coins
Virginia is apparently for haters of the Federal Reserve: One state legislator wants the state to mint its own coins in case the US dollar collapses. It may sound pie-in-the-sky, but Virginia's House...
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This Is the Least Valuable Coin in the World
The Canadian mint has started its effort to wipe the penny from existence, and plenty of people in the US (including President Obama ) would like to do the same . But the BBC reminds us that the...
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America's Most Fascinating Nickel Sells for $3.2M
America's most fascinating nickel sold yesterday for a staggering 63.45 million nickels—or $3,172,500, reports the Chicago Tribune . The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist, and...
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Scientist's Quest: Unlock Secret of Ancient Coins
Ancient coins, a map with an "X," a secret cave: It sounds like something out of a kid's book. Instead, it's an Australian professor's archaeological quest. During World War II, a soldier stationed on...
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TSA Took $531K From Our Pockets Last Year
The change in your pockets is lining the TSA's, well, pockets. The Washington Post shares the results of the TSA's 2012 fiscal report, which shows that it made off with a record $531,395.22 in change...
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We Lost $105M Making Pennies, Nickels
Making small change was a big money-loser for the US Mint—and the American taxpayer—last year for the eighth year in a row, with the loss from making pennies and nickels adding up to $105 million....
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Jersey Official Steals $460K ... in Quarters
Last year, the public works inspector in Ridgewood, NJ, got caught stealing $500 in quarters from the room where the village dumped all its parking-meter coins. To say that's not the half of it doesn't...
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Town Changes Rules After Odd Bill Payment
A Pennsylvania township is asking residents to keep the change. Officials in Millcreek Township have adopted a policy limiting how much change they'll accept from residents paying sewer bills and other...
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Mysterious Coin Stash Unearthed—After 2K Years
A cave in Britain may have been the perfect hiding place for a stash of coins … because 2,000 years passed before anyone found them. A climber sheltering from the rain happened upon four coins in...
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Insurance Firm Pays $21K of Settlement in Coins
Andres Carrasco was likely happy to hear in June that he was being awarded a settlement from an insurance company after one of its workers allegedly assaulted him. He was definitely not happy to see...
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NY Parking Cop Swiped $89K —in Coins
Jeffrey Daday apparently liked to dip his hand into the cash register. Or more specifically, into parking meters. The New York man worked as a parking enforcement officer for five years in the village...
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Man Slept in Car for Days to Guard Discovered Treasure
Laurence Egerton's metal-detecting excursions often resulted in such "treasures" as old shotgun cartridges and other "rubbish," he says. But last November, the UK builder found something much...
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Even Beggars Don't Want Zimbabwe's New Coins
American bills have been used in Zimbabwe since the country adopted the US dollar in 2009. American coins? Not so much. Coins are more difficult to get into circulation, so locals had been using...
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Spelunkers' Big Find: Ancient Treasure
Last month it was amateur scuba divers stumbling upon a treasure trove of submerged coins in Israel. Now three amateur spelunkers from the Israeli Caving Club have alerted authorities to a stash of...
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Professor Looks Into Rumor, Finds Priceless Coin Trove
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , the swashbuckling professor tells his students that "70% of all archaeology is done in the library"—but at the University at Buffalo, it turned out to be 100%...
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