rare coins

This image provided by PCGS.com/Professional Coin Grading Service shows the front (left) and back of a 1783 plain obverse Nova Constellatio "quint" silver coin. Authorized by Congress, the coin had a value of 500 units in a proposed but later abandoned ea

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Is This The Very First U.S. Coin?

1:52pm August 01, 2017

by Scott Neuman

A collector who purchased a rare U.S. "quint" in 2013 says he has proof that it is the first coin ever minted in the United States, dating to 1783. And experts think he could be right.

Coins from the Thomas Lockwood Collection were recently found to be rare and priceless. From a description by the University at Buffalo, from top to bottom: A gold aureus of the Roman emperor Otho; a tetradrachm of Athens; a tetradrachm of Alexander the G

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U.S. College Finds Priceless Coin Collection — In Its Own Library

3:54pm March 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Dozens of gold and silver coins, some from the eras of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, spent decades on a shelf in the University at Buffalo's library.