Warning on one US cent coins
- April 26, 2017
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- Pierre
The senator MAC CAIN deposited a new bill of law related to modernizing the American metal monetary system.
The representative wishes to suspend the manufacturing of pennies (coins of 1 cent, face value) and to reduce the manufacturing costs of the divisional series.
The other main axis of this decision is the will to remove definitively the banknote of one dollar and to replace it by a coin. US Mint tried to accustom American citizens to the use of one dollar coins in particular by developing the series of presidential dollar.
The mint of the United States intended to be pressed on the numismatists, in the event of success of this series,...
Hoard in a piano
- April 26, 2017
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- Pierre
When the new owners of a piano, living in Shropshire, let their instrument in a specialized company to be repeared, they discovered a bag of gold coins, hidden inside the piano itself.
The hoard is composed of a not revealed number of coins, minted from 1847 to 1915. These coins are gold sovereigns, with in particular the portrait of the Victoria queen on the obverse of the coins. The experts estimate that they were deliberately hidden inside the piano and that they could be worth a consequent amount of money, according to the BBC report. John Ellery,magistrate of Shrewsbury Coroner Court, described the origins of...
New fiver put BoE in difficult situation
- April 26, 2017
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- Pierre
The Bank of England (BoE) is put in a difficult situation by its new 5 pounds banknotes, introduced into circulation in 2016. This banknote, on which is represented a portrait of Sir Winston CHURCHILL on the reverse, knew a beginning of rejection by the population for religious and non-religious reasons. Indeed, these banknotes contain animal greases. The vegans and certain religious leaders had thus required the replacement of animal grease by another substance, synthesis or vegetable.
BoE had thought of using palm oil. This time, the ecologists get upset because, according to them, the industrial production of palm oil endangers...
2017 WIMY Commemoration and 20CND Banknote
- April 26, 2017
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- Pierre
2017, April the 4th, marks the 100 years of the battle of VIMY, which took place during the first World War. A Canadian circulation polymer banknote of 20 dollars face value, put in circulation in 2015, is illustrated by a drawing representing the canadian memorial of VIMY which commemorates the first military commitment in which the canadian army was implicated in 1917 on the western european battlefront, in France.
Four divisions were committed under the orders of general BYNG with like objective the catch of the peak of VIMY and “cote 145″, its summit. The French and English troops had failed on...
5€ Banknotes support of Homeless social claims
- April 26, 2017
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- Pierre
We knew the use of euro-banknotes as political support of dispute in Greece, called as well satirical banknotes. It is advisable to add the tickets euro-banknotes are used as support of social claims. Advertising agency TBWA set up an advertising campaign at the profit of the development of social links for the homeless people on 5€ banknotes. On those, SDF handly wrote“For me this banknote has value, but not as much as a hello”. 200 banknotes were overloaded and put in circulation in 2nd and 9th districts of Paris.
Source: France Info internet site.
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