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The article focuses on interesting series of copper coins struck in Imperial Russia is the Baroque kopecks of 1755–1757. Topics include considered that their size and beauty have long made them a favorite of collectors, both in Russia and abroad and the road to this special coinage was a long one, however, and began several centuries before.

The article discusses about Christian Gobrecht, a mint engraver who became famous for the dies of the Gobrecht silver dollars of 1836 to 1839. Topics of further discussion includes he invented the medal-ruling machine, to trace the elements of a medal or coin onto a copper plate, for making the impressions by using the same.

The article examines that the Treasury-Secretary Alexander Hamilton presented to Congress his report on the establishment of a mint and coinage. Topics include reports that when the mint law was enacted in early April 1792, Hamilton suggestion was carried into effect and examines that the first half cents were coined in July 1793 but until 1799 their mintage was erratic at best.

The article offers information related to coinage of Russia during 1375-1547. It is noted that Dmitry Ivanovich, Great Prince Dof Moscow, ordered the striking of the first Russian silver coins since early in the 11th century. It is noted that most of the early coinage was composed of silver dengas and during the 14th and 15th centuries, great variety of coins struck from numerous mints.

The article presents the discussion on annual numismatic lunacy. Topics include order of precedence being determined by the Great Race devised by the August Personage of Jade; in each coin type the diameter, weight, metal composition, and mintage being summarized in parenthesis; and Perth Mint continuing to be a major player in the lunar coin market both in terms of coin varieties and mintages.

The article provides an overview of PCGS Registry Set of 1932-1964 commemorative coins. It mentions about Grant commemorative designed by Laura Gardin Fraser which resides at Grant Presidential Library. It also informs on Boone commemoratives which were minted from 1934-1938, which makes them relatively inexpensive even though individually they have small mintages.

The article focuses on the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on numismatics and coins in the U.S. It mentions about the deal of Montana Coin stickered 1972 Ike dollar which was among a selection of pieces at the Walt Magnus from Texas. It also informs on the meeting of the Iola Historical Society.

The article offers information on New Orleans Mint that began striking dimes in 1838. It mentions that a significant amounts of foreign silver and gold, as both coins and bullion, came into the port at New Orleans and were sent to the Philadelphia Mint for coinage. It also mentions about the role of Mint Director Robert Maskell Patterson.

The article discusses the history of the early Indian Head cents and its popularity to numismatists. Also cited are the suggestion by U.S. Mint Director James Ross Snowden in mid-1850s to make the copper-nickel coins smaller, the inclusion of the Flying Eagle on the Gobrecht dollars in the design of the coins, and the Indian Head cents designed by Chief Engraver James B. Longacre to replace the Flying Eagle design.

The article offers information on the numismatics of 1861 in the U.S. It mentions that 1861 coinage was directly or indirectly controlled by the Southern authorities. It also mentions that the last Charlotte Mint gold coin to be struck was the half eagle of 1861, and information on 1861 dime, struck at the Philadelphia Mint.

The article offers information on the coinage of Massachusetts between the period 1652-1683. It mentions that in May 1652 the General Court approved a plan to begin a Massachusetts coinage, at first the idea was simple with silver coins. It also mentions that when the Pine Tree design was adopted the sizes of the coins remained unchanged from the Oak Tree mintages.

The article offers information on coinage of Empress Elizabeth of Russia and relates it with European politics. Topics discussed include importance of her portrait in the coinage, the Moscow Mint that strikes several coins such as poltina, grivennik, and ruble, and continuation of gold coinage through the year 1753.

The article discusses archaeological excavations being undertaken at a Han Dynasty mint located in Shanglinyuan, China. Led by archaeologist Liu Rui, the excavations have uncovered a factory where "Wu Zhu" coins, the longest-lived currency in Chinese history, were manufactured using clay brick molds. The author also discusses excavations at nearby Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty.

The article discusses quantum money as a theoretical alternative to entrusted money on credit cards and physical money like cash, precious metals, or poker chips. According to the article, digital information can be copied, and digital money can be counterfeited, but quantum mechanics and the complexity-theoretic no-cloning theorem indicate that cryptographically secure and transportable money could be possible. Topics include qubits, electron spin characterized by vectors, and collision-free quantum coins characterized by knot theory.

The article offers information related to the history of gambling in general and Thailand in particular. Topics discussed include the story of the origin and demise of the Bangkok gambling tokens is published in the monograph "Siamese Porcelain and Other Tokens," by H. A. Ramsden, uncontrolled circulation of tokens as a great opportunity for counterfeiters active throughout the Bangkok gambling period and problems associated with modern coins.

The article offers information on the history of mint in Charlotte, North Carolina as early as 1831. It mentions that President Andrew Jackson signed the measure into law to superintend the creation of the three new mints but he was so irritated at the sequence of events that he submitted his resignation. It also mentions that first Charlotte issues, of 1838, are very popular with specialists in gold coinage and bring strong prices.

The article discusses that the fabled mint in New Orleans, Louisiana suffered considerable damage due to Hurricane Katrina in September 2005 and it was some time before it could again be open to the public for tours. Topics include large quantities of precious metals were imported through this key Southern port and had this particular mint not been in existence, much of the gold and silver that came into that marketplace would not have carried the stamp of the U.S.

The article focuses on life and career of Natanya Van Niekerk as she receives 2021 Coin of the Year (COTY) Lifetime Achievement Award in Coin Design. Topics discussed include focus on Women of South Africa through an emotive design; development and evolution of South African Mint commemorative coinage by her; and use of concept of representing animals with respect and treating them with compassion in coin design.

The article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. during the early 1890's. The semi-humorous proposal of the "Tribune" that, if President Grover Cleveland is undoing a wrong in Hawaii, he ought to undo another by restoring their lands to the North American Indians, shows that the discussion of the Hawaiian affair is practically closed. The article also reports that when the sliver question was disposed of, it became inevitable that the banking question should be the uppermost of all financial topics in the national councils. Silver purchases had been favored in the West and South by reason of a supposed shortage of currency. People thought that they could see an increase of money if the mints were at work coining dollars on Government account, or if the Treasury was printing legal-tender notes based upon silver bullion.

The article offers information on the coinage of the 1838 Dahlonega coins. It offers a brief history on the discovery of gold in Dahlonega, Georgia. It highlights the efforts of Dahlonega Mint Director Robert Patterson to control the quality of the Dahlonega coinage. It also discusses the mintage of coins, as of March 2021.

The article offers information of the coinage of 1874-1880 in the U.S. It mentions that first 200 silver proof sets of 1878 were delivered on January 29 and were sold rather quickly to collectors and dealers, because another 100 sets were delivered on the 7th of February. It also mentions that the Mint was highly criticized in numismatic publications, but in truth was entirely blameless for obtaining the coveted coins.

The article offers information on new Draped Bust portrait of Liberty on 1796 dime which were introduced to the dollar coinage at the end of September 1795. It mentions that In the 1850s Mint Director James Ross Snowden was working on a history of the Mint and its coinage; in the course of his investigations he became acquainted with relatives of famed portrait painter Gilbert Stuart. It also mentions that the Draped Bust dime was last struck in 1807.

The article informs on the problems of COVID-19 pandemic reporting in Tajikistan. It mentions that silver drachm of the last Sasanian Emperor, Yazdgard III, was struck in 634 CE, two years after the death of Muhammad. It also mentions that the Abbasid Empire remained centralized for about 70 years before local governors began to break away, and gold had been scarce in Central Asia since the Greeks.

The article discusses the coins produced during the Weimar government in Germany. Also cited are a brief history of Germany including the election of Friedrich Ebert as president after World War I, the emergency powers used by president Paul von Hindenburg in the 1930s to appoint chancellors, including the Nazi Party's Adolph Hitler, and the use of the private money called notgeld in the country.

The article offers information on the 20th century gold series including Indian Head quarter eagle. Topics discussed include the series contains just 15 different date and mintmark combinations, the Indian Head quarter eagle featuring the realistic image of a Native American by Bela Lyon Pratt, and each quarter eagle containing 0.12094 ounces of gold.

The article focuses on coins discovered at the Truro and Exeter and other attested Royalist mints of York and Chester which includes 3. Charles I silver halfcrown; and the Charles I silver crown.

Deribit, the largest Bitcoin and Ether options exchange and a Babel creditor, had raised objections to the restructuring plan. (Bloomberg) -- A Singapore court extended creditor protection for crypto lender Babel Finance by about three months, its co-founder Flex Yang said. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A Singapore court has withheld a decision on embattled crypto lender Babel Finance's request for an extension of creditor protection, as it seeks more clarity on a proposed restructuring following objections raised by creditor Deribit, Babel's co-founder and sole director Flex Yang said. The court granted an interim moratorium until the next hearing date for Babel's creditor protection plea on April 17, Flex said. Hong Kong-based Babel, which also operates in Singapore, owes about $750 million to $800 million to creditors and its ongoing moratorium of protection against creditor action ends on April 5, said Flex, who stepped down from day-to-day operations late 2021 and has returned to oversee the company's restructuring. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers suggestions for grading of coins. It mentions that qualities described are based on the standards developed and adopted by the American Numismatic Association. Other topics include mint state, which refers to a coin that has never been placed in circulation, and MS-63 having some distracting marks in prime focal areas.

The article focuses on political conditions of the U.S., as of November 8, 1883. The Director of the Mint renews his recommendation that the coinage of silver dollars under the two-millions-per-month law be discontinued. He enforces his opinions by the statement that there are now 39,000,000 dollars of these coins in the Treasury over and above the outstanding silver certificates. The testimony collected by the Government for the purpose of bringing civil suits against the Star-route contractors is said to have been placed in the Attorney General's hands. It is also said that there is very little chance of the Government is getting a verdict.

The article presents news related to economic issues around the world as of September 30, 1897. The bimetallic flirtation in London has called forth an article from the pen of M. Leroy-Beaulieu in "Journal des Débats" protesting against the plan of plunging France into the financial chaos implied by opening her mint to the free coinage of silver, either with or without the company of the U.S. and India. The announcement that Governor Margaret Nelson Stephens of Missouri has received an unsolicited offer from New York capitalists to fund the entire debt of the state at 3 percent, interest, instead of the 3.5 percent now paid, is only one of many signs that the rate of interest in the West is falling and that all borrowers profit by it.

The article presents news related to political and economic issues around the world as of September 23, 1897. It appears now that the Bank of England did address a note to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as long ago as July 29, offering to hold one-fifth of the reserves of the issues department in silver on condition that "the French mint is again open to the free coinage of silver, and that the prices at which silver is procurable and salable are satisfactory." The lynching in Indiana of several ordinary burglars and thieves is another illustration of the spread all over the union of contempt for legal process.

The article discusses US Mint's American Women Quarters Program to honor pioneering American women, which plans to roll out five new quarters every year through 2025 and has released a quarter featuring pilot Bessie Coleman and will release a coin featuring entertainer Edith Kanaka'ole.

The article discusses the reign and coinage of Stuarts Charles I, monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Thomas Bushell, who ran the Aberystwyth mint which converted Welsh silver into coin.

The article discusses removal special issue and failed coins. Topics include inflation caused goods and services to rise sharply, which turned investors to buy in silver, causing rise in the prices and discontinuation of silver coin; wheat cents were removed from circulation by the millions until these cents were scarce in the 1970s, due to nostalgic reasons; and Buffalo nickels were hoarded so much, it caused discontinuation of the coin from circulation.

The article reports that Austrian Mint coins claim an impressive three Coin of the Year category wins in the 2022 awards competition, but the country has also earned top honors as Coin of the Year Champion. Topics include considered that the winning coin is a gold 100-euro marking "The Gold of the Pharaohs," the second coin of the Austrian Mint's "The Magic of Gold" series that traces the mysterious nature of gold in ancient cultures.