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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...
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...
Scandal of the coin world is the way these beginners are being threatened by speculators. This month, for instance, before and during the Denver convention of the American Numismatic Association, the price for a roll of 40 Jefferson 50D (which signifies 1950 minting in the Denver plant) nickels jumped from $500 to $750, then settled...
Another basic low-priced item in any U.S. coin collection is proof sets-packets of specially polished samples of the half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel and penny sold by the U.S. mint for $2.10. About 200,000 of the proof sets for 1960 had a smaller-than-average zero in the date on the penny, and the price for these has bounced within the past few weeks from...
...tended less to play than to display, is delectably vulgar and amusingly shrewd as the ragazza whose ways are almost as captivating as her means. And Lancaster, within definite limits, is superb. True, his Salina never quite becomes the figure of "leonine aspect, whose fingers could twist a ducat coin as if it were mere paper." But as the scenes accumulate, the character compiles impressive volume and solidity, and by film's end the grand Sicilian stands in the mind as a man whose like men shall not look upon again: one of culture's noblemen, a very...