Numismatics Stories of the Day
The Royal Canadian Mint’s 100 kg gold coin is the largest and purest gold coin in the world. The Times of India felt its travel to Abu Dhabi was worth noting yesterday.
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Meanwhile, two of the leading coin grading companies in the United States restated their opposition to doctored coins. According to PCGS President Ron Guth, quoted in Numismatic News,
“We’re seeing more and more coin doctoring than we’ve ever seen, and the methods used to alter the coins are more and more sophisticated.”
Unfortunately, numismatics is an area that has always attracted a disproportionately large number of shady folks, and so this is unfortunately not too surprising. I had wanted to contact the leading Canadian coin grading company, ICCS, for a comment on this, but unfortunately it appears that they do not have a website. That gets us into another issue entirely.
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Finally, our American readers will be interested to note the new 2000 “extra beard” error cent that has recently been detailed by Numismaster.
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March 6th, 2010 @ 11:05 am
[...] the medals shown in the preceding post, the largest traveling coin in the world. I had previously blogged about this coin when it was touring the Middle East. At the time it was made, it was the largest, purest gold coin [...]