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Blog posts of '2006' 'March'

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Pocketing dollars from change
Steve Contursi started collecting pennies as a boy and now makes multimillion-dollar coin deals.
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The U.S. Treasury Department will have a $1 billion public exhibit and many of the world’s most famous and valuable rare coins will be displayed in Atlanta for the first time during the National Money Show™ in the Cobb Galleria Centre, Halls C & D, 2 Galleria Parkway, April 7 – 9, 2006.
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Santa Clara features Pan-Pac set
A set of 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition commemorative coins, valued at $700,000, is returning to California’s Bay area for the first time in 91 years.
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Notes come from shipwreck
More than 3,600 U.S. and Italian bank notes recovered from the 1956 Andrea Doria shipwreck have been submitted by Rare Coin Wholesalers to PCGS Currency for inventorying and certification.
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A Round Up of Regional Freebies
The Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention is tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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The unique, first gold coin made for the United States over 200 years ago, the legendary multi-million dollar Brasher Doubloon, will be publicly exhibited in Baltimore for the first time since Johns Hopkins University sold it a quarter-century ago.
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PCGS Currency, a division of Collectors Universe, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLCT) of Newport Beach, California, has made the first known public inventory by series type of historic bank notes recovered from a safe salvaged from the submerged Italian ocean liner, Andrea Doria.
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The finest known set of 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition commemorative coins will return to the Bay area for the first time in 91 years and be exhibited during the Santa Clara Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo.
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The finest known set of 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition commemorative coins will return to the Bay area for the first time in 91 years and be exhibited during the Santa Clara Coin, Stamp & Collectibles Expo.
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A rare set of five silver and gold coins made in 1915 at the San Francisco Mint to commemorate that year's Panama-Pacific International Exposition will return to the Bay area for the first time in 91 years.