The Fort Worth Christmas Coin Show will be at the Lockheed Martin Center, 3400 South Bryant Irvin Road in Fort Worth, TX on Saturday, December 13th 10-5 and Sunday, December 14th 9-3. I will be looking forward to meeting many of you again. Bourse chairman is Gary Andrews 817-444-5500. There are...

FROM: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/33548be2-c33a-11dd-a5ae-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 Banks in Gaza shut as Israel chokes cash flow By Tobias Buck in Jerusalem Published: December 6 2008 02:00 Last updated: December 6 2008 02:00 Banks inside Gaza have been forced to shut

Hey, I was talking with Daniel Carr (the creator of U.S. $1 and $2 coin prototypes) about my coin and currency issues, and here's what he had to say: He feels that there is a 50/50 chance that there will be NO one cent coins issued after 2009, as there has been no disussion for what to do with...

Contest - Photo Exhibit OK - for Post 5000 lets make a little museum art. Competition for one smal 1.10th ounce raw coin AGE, not much but perhaps enough to generate some lasting fun and worthwhile exhibits: Here are the rules: Post in a single thread anywhere on cointalk an exhibit of...

I gotta get me one of these! http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/lacie-introduces-a-flash-drive-that-looks-and-feels-like-a-coin-tuesready-2008122/ or http://tinyurl.com/55r45p JAM

Hello all, I'm hoping that some coin genius will be able to identify a coin by the probably weak description that follows (no photo i'm afraid). The coin: 'Silver' in colour Fairly certain it's modern/current circulation

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41096&item=140287357529 ICG Signature Series 2001-S Rhode Island State Quarter, slab label signed by Daniel Carr, designer of the RI and NY State Quarters and (at least he used to be) a regular participant here.. Ultra hyper mongo...

I have just listed additional coins for sale on my JW Numismatics pages. Nice coins including a scarce Synaus provincial and an issue from Temnos in Aiolis. The new items include: Sardes AE16 - Apollo/Club Temnos AE17 - Dionysos/Athena (Scarce) Constans AE4 - 2 victories Constantine AE3/4 - 2...

FROM: http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9465809 Priceless items for sale at Unclaimed Property Auction Updated: Dec 5, 2008 12:43 PM MST You have a chance to get your hands on some unusual items Saturday at Nevada's annual Unclaimed Property Auction.

Hi, I'm located in Canada, so I can't offer to exchange mints. I'm interested in obtaining some single P mint issues for 2007 and 2008, plus a full roll of each issue next year. I need five state quarter coins in P mint each of: Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska,...

How well does the red poppy on the Canadian Remembrance Day quarters hold up under circulation? Have any other national currencies (as opposed to commercial Obama souvenirs) used color in this fashion? -- Please reply to: | "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is pciszek at panix...

Hello I have not been back to the United Kingdom since 1999. Much has change. ----------------------------------------------- FROM: http://www.todayonline.com/articles/290024.asp

Hello Every country with a suppressive dictatorship needs to create a distraction from not being able (or not knowing how), to deal with the internal problems of there economy. Fear keeps the locals in check as well. Wonder who planted the gold coins to frame

FROM: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081207/news_mz1b7encore.html The San Diego Union-Tribune Collect facts before you try to cash in on old coins By Kelly Greene THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Talk about billions; the automakers GM, Chrysler and Ford were in Washington this week after driving their hybrids from Detroit to D.C. Anyway, did you hear the news; the Treasury Dept. has run out of serial numbers to print anymore $100 bills? So they announced that instead of doing like...

http://www.coinfacts.com/bullion_coins/gold_bullion_coins.htm Clicking on each denomination will give you the diameter of each coin. The gold bullion coins, however, are the only ones whose diameter is given. Does the 1oz silver coin and the various platinum coins have the same diameters as...

Up for auction on eBay this week (ending Sunday evening) are 179 modern proofs slabbed by ICG. Not too long ago, it seemed that ICG and ANACS were respectable alternatives to PCGS and NGC in the slabbing game. Now, PCGS and NGC outnumber them on eBay 10-to-1. This batch of auctions is a test...

Looking with curiosity at the design proposals shown in coin newspapers for some of the upcoming US Mint medals, it makes me nostalgic for the earlier days of classic sculptors and medalists. These proposed designs apparently are what we must expect when we encourage artists to "modernize" our...

We have been suspended from ebay and all of our listings ended. Not sure what's going on, but I have some pretty good ideas, since we have had our business interfered with before. I know a couple of RCC members had standing bids, I apologize for the inconvenience. I will post a notice when we...

I recently looked through some old stuff of a relatives and came across an old coin collection. One coin is described as follows. Heavy gold/brass. About the size of a 50cent piece. The front has the lion's crest on it, with the initials F I S G V R. On the back is 2 OR s M and the year 1746 with...