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[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=American+Samoa+&ie=UTF8&t=p&s=AARTsJpegji0MO4DduJGAySWSuvrFiIHrw&ll=-14.285677,-170.71106&spn=0.532328,0.549316&z=9&output=embed&w=200&h=200] The American Samoa people submitted 55 design ideas for their new U.S. commemorative quarter, according to Lt. Gov. Ipulasi Sunia of the American...

The second commemorative state quarter for release in 2008 honors New Mexico. The countdown for its circulation has officially started with the...

Russia could lose its smallest coin denomination, the one-kopek. The St. Petersburg Times reports the coin's possible elimination was voiced by Arkady Trachuk. Mr....

The American Numismatic Association and the coin collecting community will celebrate the 85th annual National Coin Week, April 20-26, with the theme, “Money Makes...

The newly redesigned $5 bill entered circulation March 13, 2008. While it will take time for everyone to receive their first $5, those that...

A coin collector can hardly experience anything worse with a collection than having it stolen. After the theft, there is always the hope that some or all of the coins will eventually be recovered. But imagine if your coins were stolen and then spent or traded like every day circulating change, as if they had absolutely no collectible value.

That is exactly what happened to one man's collection in Enfield, Connecticut. He found out that he had been taken to the cleaners by a woman he hired to clean.

The woman apparently discovered the collection, called another man into the home, and together they took the collectible coins and paper-money. Even worse, the coin collection was then swapped for cash using a coin cash machine at a local store.

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Pattern coins and the precious metals markets are the topics of the next two, free Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) “Share the Knowledge”...

Gold hit a new record high on Monday, March 17, and then quickly dropped to experience its largest weekly loss since August 1990. ...

Making dough is common place in a pizza shop kitchen. Making fake dough, as in counterfeited $50 bills, is not so common. Police arrested...

Queen Elizabeth II led the Royal Maundy Service on Thursday in Northern Ireland. In keeping with the yearly tradition to mark Holy Thursday before...