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...COLLECTIBLES $10.7 million Amount earned at a California auction for 301 rare U.S. pennies sold by a coin collector 1793 The year one of the coins in the collection was minted. The penny was in circulation for just two weeks before Congress concluded Lady Liberty looked too frightening. That coin and a similar 1794 penny brought in $632,500 each...
...start of election day, Catherine L. Vaughan ’08 was still undecided as to who she supported, but she still wanted to participate in the political process. She ultimately selected her candidate by flipping a coin between Clinton and Obama...
...Nonetheless, the vote comes as coinage has become tightly bound in questions of identity. The British government created an outcry recently with plans to remove Britannia, the female personification of the country since Roman times, from the 50-pence coin...
...there has been a recent mushrooming of coin designs after decades in which currency from pennies to dollars remained virtually unchanged. Now, after delivering its 50 state quarters, the U.S. mint is producing its presidential dollar coins (it started in 2007 with George Washington, and is chronological, with four per year), to be followed by an equal number of ten-dollar first spouse coins...
...special two-euro adds to the array of coinage. But while it may quicken the pulse of coin collectors, it is unlikely to cement any collective European character, says Hugo Brady from the London-based Centre for European Reform think-tank. "The E.U. cannot manufacture a European identity through stunts," he says. "It's well intentioned, but I don't think it will resonate with the public at large. The E.U. institutions work best when they are efficient. When they try to get people to love them, the response is bemused befuddlement...