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Friday, June 25th, 2010 at 9:55 pm

Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I've picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes...

Ponterio Baltimore Auction to Offer Diverse Selection of Ancient ...

Executive vice president, Rick Ponterio states, “Our June 2010 Baltimore Auction is sure to see strong bidder participation—and competition—among specialists in many areas of foreign coins and paper money. ... “We will also present a Yuan Dynasty Zhi Yuan 50 Tael Sycee Ingot that is extremely rare and historically significant,” Ponterio added. “It is dated the 14th year of the Zhìyuán era (1273 A.D.), inscribed with the denomination at upper left and the ruler's name and ...

What Else You Should Know About Silver Town Winchester Indiana Coin

They give the options of many types of coins. Some of them are, the nickel five cent pieces, dimes, quarters, silver and related dollars, gold bullion, proof and mint sets, half dollars, small cents and even foreign coins. ...

"PCGS Announces Next Steps to Improve and Protect Hobby" - CoinTalk

According to PCGS officials, in conjunction with the development of coin recognition technology launched in March of this year, PCGS has been developing a process to detect foreign materials and other enhancements to a coin's surfaces. Using energy dispersive X-ray ... Defendants represented to PCGS that these coins had natural surfaces, intending to deceive PCGS's graders so that the 'doctored' coins would be certified by PCGS and then sold in the rare coin marketplace." ...

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Hey Readers! I've been comin across some crazy stuff the past few days from a few different blogs around the web which I just had to share with you. Check em out below...

Federal Lawsuit Filed Against “Coin Doctors” by Collectors ...

Defendants represented to PCGS that these coins had natural surfaces, intending to deceive PCGS's graders so that the 'doctored' coins would be certified by PCGS and then sold in the rare coin marketplace.” A couple of examples given in the complaint ... “Occasionally our graders have been deceived by the very clever application of foreign substances only to have these substances eventually spoil the coin and necessitate our buying it back. We believe we have compelling ...

Assembling Ugly Coin Collecting Books

In some cases you can find coin dealers who have specialty coins only. The coin dealers will help when you start seriously collecting coins. There will also be coin dealers who have lots of experience in dealing with foreign coins. ...

Bowers and Merena and Ponterio Realize More than $8.5 Million at ...

Ponterio & Associates, America's premier auction house for foreign coins and paper money, realized more than $1.5 million as part of the Official Auction of the March 2010 Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo. ...

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