Coin News Daily August 27 2008

By CoinLink on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Filed Under: Coin News Daily

Additional Coin Collecting News from across the web presented by CoinLink

Unique Kentucky Red Seal Sheet Located

Central City, Ky., collector Richard L. Deavers reports finding the only known uncut sheet of Series 1902 Red Seal national bank notes extant on the Bluegrass State. The sheet of 5-5-5-5, Serial No. 3, is from the First National Bank of Louisa, Charter 7110. It grades AU, with folds between the note and one fold through the sheet.
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Historic Pedigrees Lost

An increasing number of comments from both collectors and dealers suggest that through grading and re-grading, pedigrees of many important coins are being lost or even intentionally dropped by submitters.
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US Mint resumes gold coin orders on limited basis

The U.S. Mint said it must allocate the American Eagle bullion coins among dealers to cope with overwhelming demand as it resumed taking orders for the popular coins on Monday.
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First Maltese collector coins in euro domination

The Central Bank of Malta has issued a collector coin in a gold and silver version with the theme “Auberge de Castille”. The obverse of the coins shows the Emblem of Malta with the year of issue 2008. The reverse side depicts the porch of the Auberge de Castille and the “Europa Star”.
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Finder not keeper of coin trove

FOUR centuries-old gold coins missing since 1994 are the legal property of their original owner, and not the woman who bought them at a yard sale, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruled last week.
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Grafton company selected to market latest dollar coins

The U.S. Mint wants more of its new presidential dollar coins jangling in Americans’ pockets and purses and has contracted with a Grafton firm to market the dollar coin to banks nationwide. MPI Coin Inc. until now has specialized in packaging collector coins sold in bank and credit union lobbies and on the Web.
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Unique Coin Treasures Discovered

Four treasures of silver and copper coins were accepted in the National Historic Museum (NIM). Two of these are silver and are the biggest of all Ivan Strazimir (1371-1396) treasures discovered by now. They were found by accident in the digging on a construction site and were immediately submitted to NIM.
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