949-251-1366New Mexico boy trips over 1.2 million year old fossil
BBC NEWS – US & Canada | July 20, 2017 Watch Video Playtime turned prehistoric for a 10-year-old boy who tripped – and then realized he had just stumbled over a fossil. Courtesy of New Mexico State University.
Read moreGermany makes arrests over theft of giant solid-gold coin
BBC NEWS – EUROPE | July 12, 2017 Police have raided homes and made arrests in Berlin over an audacious night-time heist which saw a huge solid-gold coin stolen from a museum. The raids took place and a car was seized in the district of Neukoelln, German news agency DPA reports. The suspected robbers are believed to
Read moreLegendary Chinese treasure found
Numismatic News | Posted by Richard Giedroyc | May 15, 2017 (Image above: This silver 2-tael sycee is similar to the gold and silver sycees being excavated at the site of a battle during a 1647 peasant revolt in China.) What was thought to be only a legend has proved to be fact. As of early
Read moreSolid gold coin worth $4m stolen from Berlin museum
BBC NEWS – EUROPE | March 27, 2017 A giant gold coin bearing the Queen’s image, and worth $4m (£3.2m), has been stolen from a museum in Germany. The Canadian coin, nicknamed the “big maple leaf”, has a face value of $1m – but because it is 100kg (220lb) of pure 24-carat gold, its value is
Read moreGermany reaching goals bringing central bank’s gold holdings back within the borders
COIN WORLD | By Paul Gilkes, Coin World | February 15, 2017 Tons of precious metals bars returning from New York and Paris Germany is in its final stages of repatriating more than 700 metric tons of gold from vaults in New York and Paris. Since 2013, the European nation’s central bank has completed the
Read moreMassachusetts mattress conceals $20m in cash
BBC NEWS Us & Canada | January 24, 2017 US authorities have seized $20m (£16m) in cash discovered in a bed frame under a mattress in a Massachusetts flat. The cash is believed to be linked to a $1bn pyramid scheme involving TelexFree, a company that claimed to provide internet phone services. Investigators uncovered
Read moreWhatever you do, don’t put paper money into your mouth
COIN WORLD | By Arthur L. Friedberg , Special to Coin World | January 16, 2017 Studies show just how filthy and germ-laden our notes are Numismatics, the study of money, takes on an entirely new dimension in a recent article in Scientific American by Dina Fine Maron. Money, she discovered, is disgusting. My father
Read moreIt’s not even broken: 1942 experimental cent struck on glass planchet
Coin World | By Paul Gilkes, Coin World Senior Editor | December 16, 2016 Only known unbroken example in Heritage Platinum Night auction at FUN The only known unbroken example of a 1942 experimental cent struck on a glass planchet is set to cross the auction block Jan. 5 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Heritage Auctions
Read moreChinese imperial seal sold for record $22m at auction
BBC NEWS – China | December 15, 2016 An 18th Century Chinese imperial seal has been sold for a record €21m (£18m, $22m) – more than 20 times its estimated price. The sale, to an unnamed Chinese collector, took place in Paris on Wednesday after a heated bidding war, Drouot auction house said. The palm-sized seal
Read moreThief gets away with $1.6m bucket of gold flakes
bbc.com | BBC News US & Canada | November 30, 2016 Watch Video Police are looking for a thief who managed to carry an 86lb (36kg) bucket of gold flakes worth $1.6m (£1.2m) off a truck in New York. Surveillance video showed the theft happened in just 20 seconds while the armoured truck was briefly unattended. The man struggled
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