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...that dreaded time in gadgetry again: you're going to have to choose between competing technologies. Did you bet Beta or VHS? Did you do Windows or bite into Macintosh? What call did you make on cellular vs. PCS phones? The next coin toss is in photography, in which a new line of digital cameras that store pictures on memory chips rather than film is fighting it out with Advanced Photo System models, an innovative take on traditional 35-mm film...
With work well under way to bring a single European currency--the euro--into being next year, we asked several experts what European coin or bill they would miss the most...
JAMES LAMB, president of Spink America, coin subsidiary of Christie's New York: "The French franc has been a well-designed and elegant little coinage that's always had a certain class...
PAUL SONG, V.P. of Sotheby's coin department: "The Italian 50,000-lira note, because of all the zeros and the portrait of Italian sculptor Bernini. The first time I visited Italy, I went to the Capitoline Museum and gave the guard a 50,000 note for 5,000 and was ripped...
Ever since he discovered what he claimed was $400 million in sunken treasure in 1985 off the coast of Key West, Fla., Mel Fisher has been no stranger to controversy. It visited him again last week when a Florida coin expert determined that a number of coins being sold through Fisher's museum were fakes. The county attorney has warned concerned customers that others may be too. The coins, purportedly taken from a Spanish galleon fleet lost in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1733, are genuine gold but not necessarily authentic, even though buyers received certificates from Fisher...