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I am having a 10 day sale on all numismatic books (very eclectic group of books) and five hundred of my coin, currency, and exonumia listings. Up to 25% off! You are also welcome to make fair offers on any listing you see. I do combine ship to save you money.
International buyers – I do ship internationally using eBay’s Global Shipping Program.
Please use the category links on the left side of the store to more easily navigate the listings. I also welcome your to save me as a seller as I continually purchase collections and add new listings frequently.
I recently purchase approximately 100 non-numismatic collecting books on a number of topics. Those books are also on sale.
There are just two more weeks until my 40% off all numismatic book/literature sale is over. More than 350 titles to choose from covering all numismatic interests.
Here is a link to take you directly to the book section of the store:
I have added several hundred US and World Coin listings over the past week and will be listing another 100 today. Although I am not having a sale on coins, I will consider all fair offers so take a look. Here is a link to the main store page. While you are there, please follow my store so you will be one of the first alerted to new additions.
As I noted in my last post, I purchased more than 3000 transit tokens. It takes a lot of time to list each one and hope to have all the listings completed in the next few weeks. They are selling quickly and I believe there are more than seven hundred now up and unsold. If you collect tokens, please take a look. The direct link to the token’s section is:
Be sure to Follow and Bookmark this page and view daily as links to hundreds of numismatic articles can be found in the right hand column of this page. Daily feeds from many of the major numismatic publications can be found all in one place.
With school being closed and a lot less homework, I have been able to add many new listings over the past several days. Still have hundreds more to put up but I invite everyone to visit my store at anytime. You will find US and World Coins, Currency, Books, Tokens, Medals, Errors, and more.
When you click on the below link, please click on the save seller link on my store page.
I just added several hundred new numismatic items (coins, books, tokens, medals, bullion, and world currency. Please take a look and be sure to follow my store to receive notices when I add additional listings. Click here to visit my Numismatic eBay store.
Or click on one of these links to go directly to what interests you. Use the category links (on left hand side of the eBay store to navigate:
NumisNews – Solomon Islands $40 Bank Note – 7/16/2018 – Numismatics with Kenny
Hello everybody and welcome back to Numismatics with Kenny. Sorry for the long delay with no videos. Since I’ve been taking tests and finals and exams, I haven’t had any time to even think about this YouTube channel. But now that summer has rolled around, I’ll finally be able to produce and upload some new numismatic content!
Today, I want to roll out one of my new ideas for this channel, called NumisNews. This is where I find an interesting news article about numismatics and I share information about that subject.
The first one is about the Solomon Islands $40 Bank Note that was just released (as of July 2018). As most of you don’t know, the Solomon Islands are celebrating their 40th anniversary of gaining independence from Great Britain. To mark this special anniversary, a limited edition $40 bank note is being released in the Solomon Islands. Limited to 100,000 notes, this polymer is fifth in a series of multi-island and multilingual notes, including a $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes.
De La Rue, a British banknote printer, is producing the notes, just like they do for so many more countries. Adorned, with braille for the blind and even a turtle that glows under ultraviolet light, the Solomon Islands $40 banknote is meant to be a collector’s item. But the Central Bank Governor Denton Rarawa has stated that it will be used in commerce for the purchase of everyday goods.
Thank you to all of my first 500 subscribers. To celebrate, here is a video about the Three Dollar Gold Piece.
This video focuses on the Three Dollar Gold Piece. The coin was designed by James B. Longacre, who also designed the Indian Head Cent and numerous other coins.
This series is especially rare – the highest mintage was in 1854, with only 138,618 coins struck. The lowest mintage was in 1881, with 500 coins struck. This is not including the unique 1870-S, which is part of the Bass Foundation Collection and can be seen in my video “Quarter Eagles and $3 Gold Pieces – Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection at the ANA Money Museum”. Needless to say, every date and mintmark combination in this series is classified as scarce or above.
The 1870-S Three Dollar Gold Piece is unique – there are no other ones in any collection. The coin was sold in a B&R auction in October of 1982 and sold for $687,500 in EF-40. Today, the Red Book estimates the price of the coin, in EF, to be about $6,000,000.
The denomination was minted from 1854 to 1889. They were struck at Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dahlonega, and New Orleans.
The coin was authorized for striking by the Act of February 21, 1853.
Here is a quote from the straight from the Red Book –
“Today, some numismatists theorize that the $3 denomination
Would have been useful for purchasing postage stamps of the day (with their face value of 3 cents) or for acquiring 100 silver three-cent pieces (“trimes”), which were also in circulation at the time.”