Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among really valuable items are the 1804 silver dollar, which brought $36,000 at its last sale, and the Brasher Doubloon, which the coin department of Gimbels in Manhattan has insured...
When the mint needs money-that's news. Not news that U.S. Mint Director Eva B. Adams wants to shout from the housetops; she fears that too much publicity about a coin shortage may make matters worse by encouraging hoarding. But in fact, pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars are all in short supply, though the mints in Denver and Philadelphia are working around the clock to plink them out, and the American Bankers Association has requested its 13,125 member banks to poke around in their vaults for any stockpiled coins that could be put into circulation...
Chief reasons for the coin shortage are the growing population, the increased gross national product, the proliferation of vending machines and parking meters, and the penny-gobbling of local sales taxes. A factor that is harder to measure is the mushroom growth of one of America's fastest-growing hobbies-numismatics...
Scandalous Speculators. There are some 8,000,000 coin collectors in the U.S. today, and their numbers are growing so fast that the prices of coins-rare and not so rare-are skyrocketing. Items...
Numismatists (from nomisma, Greek for anything sanctioned by usage, the current coin) include such diverse types as the late business wheeler-dealer Samuel Wolfson, ex-King Farouk (who sold his collection for about $3,000,000), Jayne Mansfield and Cardinal Spellman. But most collectors are children; these days they can even begin their numismatic careers at Woolworth's, which has installed coin departments' in several of its stores...