Treasure hunters set to coin it with Roman haul
MKNews
As the credit crunch hits pensioners across the country one pair have hit the jackpot by finding buried treasure. The finders of a hoard of thousands of Roman coins agree with the words inscribed on them; ‘happy times are here again’. The collection of bronze coins, which may be worth hundreds of thousands in sterling, were discovered in a field north of Newport Pagnell and have now been declared as treasure.
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Consider the Silver Eagle
By Mark Benvenuto, Coins Magazine
If you are a collector on a limited budget, the recent, inflated prices for silver have probably put a bit of a damper on some of your collecting. Morgan and Peace silver dollars - two ever-popular collector series - can seem out of reach when commodities such as silver go up. So, what’s a good solution for a collector who doesn’t want to wait for the metals market to cool down, doesn’t want to collect lower grade circulated Morgan or Peace dollars, and doesn’t want to spend a fortune in assembling a great collection of silver dollars? Well, perhaps the solution is to collect silver American Eagles.
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Coins sell as stocks fall
The Republican
Robert G. Duncan of Southampton has been selling coins for more than 20 years, and the current financial crisis isn’t hurting his business. “I’ve seen pretty steady sales,” Duncan said Sunday at the West Springfield Coin Club’s Coin Show, held at the Dante Club on Memorial Avenue. Duncan said that even while some people have pulled out of the stock market and are hesitant to purchase bonds due to crisis, many are still purchasing coins.
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Mint Error News #25 is Published
By Mike Byers
Mike Byers has published another excellent edition of his free Mint Error News Magazine. The current issue is cram-packed with more than 250 pages full of information and photos relating to error coins. As always, Al Levy’s error coin price charts are fascinating. Levy tracks numerous types of error and variety coins, and creates price charts showing the eBay auction closing prices, grades, numbers of specimens sold, and miscellaneous notes.
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Coin and Bullion Investing Insights
By Susan Headley - About.com
For the past several weeks, I have been getting an increasing volume of email asking for more information about investing in coins and bullion. This spate of inquiries is probably related to the current slide the U.S. economy is undergoing, since these types of emails ran about 5 queries per week until a couple of months ago. Current volume is averaging 3 or 4 per day now, and this increase tells me something very interesting.
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Why Gold Might Soar Over the Next Four Weeks
By Patrick A. Heller, Market Update
Whether or not you acknowledge past efforts by the U.S. government with other governments, central banks and private trading partners to suppress the gold spot price, events coming to pass in the next four weeks could create overwhelming pressure causing much higher gold prices.
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‘New 49′ers’ seek California gold
CNN Money
The northern California town of Happy Camp (pop. 1,000) was founded in 1850 when an estimated 15,000 people converged here, pitching tents and building rickety lean-tos. They came to work on a nearby stretch of the Klamath River dubbed the Million Dollar Mile because, legend has it, that was the value of the gold extracted on an average day.
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