2010 coin of The year award

2010 coin of The year award had been announced on 12 January 2010. A Coin of the year international panel of judges concluded voting 8 January 2010 and the public online voting for the People’s Choice Award ended 10 january 2010. World Coin News is a sister publication to Numismatic News that covers the field of world coinage. This year’s competition featuring coins dated 2008 was hotly contested. The Coin of the year winner was chosen in two rounds...

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Fake Lebanese Billionaire caught using fake US dollar notes

Do any of you in Malaysia remember about the Controversial self-proclaimed billionaire Elie Youssef Najem, who pledged RM1bil to the National Cancer Council (Makna) in 2006? Yesterday, Elie was caught with allegedly US$66mil (RM220mil) in fake money. He gave up a US$500 note as a tip to a hotel cleaner in a 4 star hotel. Kuala Lumpur commercial crime unit division chief ASP Izany Abdul Ghany said the 50-year-old Lebanese national had been renting...

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Ancient coin found in Malaysia

Look like coin collector in Kuala Terengganu (state in Malaysia), were digging their own ancient coin for this past few days. A news by the star newspaper reported that some ancient coins and artefact's found in Terengganu’s Chinatown work site. Earth-works for the new ring road and sewage system in Terengganu Chinatown here have uncovered hundreds of ancient coins and other artefact's. There is also concern that workers at the site and the public...

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Old coin found in world oldest living city

Yesterday, The Hamas-run ministry of tourism and antiquities in Gaza announced the discovery of ancient artifacts near the Egyptian border town of Rafah. 1,300 ancient silver coins, both large and small found at the archaeological dig. Archaeologists had also uncovered a black basalt grinder, a coin with a cross etched on it, and the remains of walls and arches believed to have been built in 320 BC. They also discovered a "mysterious" underground...

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Photo Journey in 2009

Year 2009 was a year that brought many memories to me. Almost all my wish list for 2009 achieved successfully. I have meet Tun Dr. Mahathir when I am doing my coin hunting trip in Pasar Seni, Kuala Lumpur. 2009 had bring me coin hunting trip to Penang, Kedah, Perlis, Johor, Sarawak, Sabah, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. This post is my photo journey in 2009, the best moment that happened to me and this blog. A collection of the best photo in 2009 and...

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Mona Lisa of Rare Coins: 1913 Liberty Head nickel

A rare 1913 American nickel five-cent piece also known as The Liberty Head nickel, sometimes referred to as the V nickel due to its reverse design, Recently dubbed "The Mona Lisa of Rare Coins," was sold for more than $3.7 million (2.3 million pounds) in Heritage Auctions Platinum Night. The so-called Liberty Head nickel, one of only five known of that specific date and design, was sold "in spirited bidding" to a private East Coast coin collector...

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Sea Life : Clownfish 1/2oz Silver Proof Coin

Australian waters host some of the most famous reef systems in the world. From spectacular tropical corals to towering forests of kelp, these dynamic environments are teeming with aquatic life. Celebrating five fascinating reef dwellers, this month, Perth Mint is releasing Australian sea life 1/2 oz silver proof clownfish. The future release will be Seahorse (March 2010) and Moray Eel (May 2010). The coin is struck by The Perth Mint from 1/2oz...

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Free World coin picture

My blog reader asking me where to find world coin picture? Especially coin picture for old Brunei coin. My answer is try to Google the coin title, you will never know what you will find. Old world coin pictures sometimes a bit hard to find but with patience and a bit of time wasting looking at the search result page, you will find what you are looking for. Do you know that I start my own web page by googling around? Google is the most powerful search...

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Wrong fake pound advice

A wrong advice by police in Northern Ireland make retailers rejecting genuine pound coins as fakes, following a warning about an increase in counterfeit coins. Police warned people to look out for fake coins which do not have a ring of dots normally found around the circumference of the coin. However, some genuine 2008 and 2009 £1 coins do not have any dots. Police and bank had created panic around the issue of counterfeit coins. Police warning...

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Foreign Currency Trading Schemes; BNM advice?

Yesterday (4 January 2010), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) release a press statement about Illegal Foreign Currency Trading Schemes. In the statement, Bank Negara Malaysia inform public not to participate in any illegal investment or training programme on foreign currency trading offered by individuals or companies both domestic and foreign. Many people related it to forex trading but doesn't this statement sound like it also involve with coin,...

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Error money found

Error money found by a guy recently from an ATM machine at the Penang International Airport. The news that reported by Malaysia local newspaper the star, reported that The legal tender was found stuck among 20 pieces of RM50 notes which was withdrawn by remisier Norhazi Ismail, 45 years old. Bearing the serial number, ‘PP1981485’ on the back, the note had an extra flap on the front left top corner.“This banknote is legal as it came straight from...

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