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NEW YORK – More than 1,000 years ago, the Peacemaker brought the Great Law of Peace that is the foundation of U.S. democracy to the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

This year…

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NEW YORK – More than 1,000 years ago, the Peacemaker brought the Great Law of Peace that is the foundation of U.S. democracy to the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

This year…

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All,

I will be needing a P and D 2010 Kennedy Half Dollar.

Please let me know if you are selling individual coins from either rolls or bags.

Thanks,
Ken

AP:

Today is Sunday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2010. There are 327 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk, which lasted nearly six hours.

On this date:

In 1812, author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

In 1857, a French court acquitted author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel “Madame Bovary.”

In 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings.

In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president.

In 1943, the government announced the start of shoe rationing, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year.

In 1948, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.

In 1971, women in Switzerland gained the right to vote through a national referendum, 12 years after a previous attempt failed.

In 1974, the island nation of Grenada (greh-NAY’-duh) won independence from Britain.

In 1983, Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn in as the first female secretary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

In 1999, Jordan’s King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah.

Ten years ago: With an astonishing comeback to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Tiger Woods gained his sixth straight PGA Tour victory, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1948 to win six in a row. The Web site Yahoo! came under a “denial of service” attack by Internet vandals. Yugoslav Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic (byoo-LAH’-toh-vihch) was gunned down in a Belgrade restaurant and died later in a hospital. Magician Doug Henning died in Los Angeles at age 52.

Five years ago: President George W. Bush proposed a $2.57 trillion budget that would erase scores of programs but still worsen federal deficits by $42 billion over the next five years. Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s. (Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison.) Ellen MacArthur, a 28-year-old Englishwoman, broke the then-record for solo around-the-world sailing, completing the 26,000-mile circumnavigation after 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds at sea.

One year ago: A miles-wide section of ice in Lake Erie broke away from the Ohio shoreline, trapping about 135 fishermen, some for as long as four hours before they could be rescued. Walls of flame roared across southeastern Australia, leveling scores of homes, forests and farmland in the country’s worst wildfire disaster in a quarter century. Bolivia’s new constitution took effect. Death claimed jazz singer Blossom Dearie at age 84, country singer Molly Bee at age 69, and Jack Cover, inventor of the Taser stun gun, at age 88.

Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 89. Author Gay Talese is 78. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) is 75. Actor Miguel Ferrer is 55. Reggae musician Brian Travers (UB40) is 51. Comedy writer Robert Smigel (SMY’-guhl) is 50. Actor James Spader is 50. Country singer Garth Brooks is 48. Rock musician David Bryan (Bon Jovi) is 48. Actor-comedian Eddie Izzard is 48. Actor-comedian Chris Rock is 45. Actor Jason Gedrick is 43. Actress Essence Atkins is 38. Rock singer-musician Wes Borland is 35. Actor Ashton Kutcher is 32. Actress Tina Majorino is 25.

Thought for Today: “Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.” - John Haynes Holmes, American clergyman and reformer (1879-1964).

Wikipedia:

• 457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
• 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
• 1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
• 1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
• 1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
• 1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
• 1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
• 1842 – Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
• 1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company after a peaceful abdication of Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh.
• 1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
• 1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
• 1882 – The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
• 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
• 1898 – Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J’Accuse.
• 1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
• 1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• 1944 – World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle
• 1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
• 1967 – Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.
• 1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
• 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
• 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• 1990 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
• 1991 – Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
• 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
• 1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
• 2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.

For all you Indian Head Penny collectors.  I just wanted to share an exceptional experience I had seeing a 1877 Indian Head Penny MS-66 RD.  It belongs to Rick Snow and is valued at $175,000.00.  I don’t mean to brag, but what a once in a life time experience.  I have read some of Rick’s books and he seems like a very humble guy who has really done well for himself.  Also while I was sitting there I saw a very rare copper-nickel out of date Indian.  It was 1880 something very worn and very exciting considering 1880’s Indians were struck only in bronze.  I expect it to appear in some magazine down the road so keep your eye’s peeled.  This Indian was kind of like the 1943 Lincoln Copper Penny finds.   I did realize this was a seemingly once and a life time opportunity.  I am passing all of this along to continue to spark the interest that I believe unfound rare and interesting coins are still out there somewhere and even though some of us may never own the rarest of coins. We can dream.  Thanks for reading.

Here are the other coins I was talking about. I Appreciate you all checking these out for me.

Hey everyone, I got to thinking and was just curious what you guys thought of this years Febuary Show (Positive or Negative).  This was my first year attending the show.  I went up with my buddy on Thursday.  I figured that I had a better shot at finding some better coins before everything had been bought up.  Overall I was pleased with my purchases but it was quite the hunt:)  I could not help but notice that dealers were not finding as many buyers.  Many individuals were trying to off load coins.  Not many dealers were buying.  I will say that in my opinion dealers seemed to be a little hard up:(  That being said, I can’t help but believe that this situation is do to the hard economic times that our country is facing.  I was able to save money talking dealers down on there SET PRICES tactfully and respectfully.  So with this information I encourage all of you to take advantage of this financial down turn and grab up some good deals.  I just wanted to bring to light an observation and make a negative into a positive.  Also for all of  you small cent collectors out their who are looking to off load any proof or ms indian head pennies I am in the market.  I may have something you want as trade.  Let me know.  I appreciate any feed back and hope that you find some good deals. Happy hunting and good luck!!!

I have three coins I dont know anything about.Here are pictures of one of the three.obverse And reverse. Can I get sum input if you have any to offer. Thank you for your time.

What’s New on CoinLink ……..

All four gold ingots from the S.S.Central America made the Top 10 list in the auction results from Heritage’s Long Beach Signature Sale. The top performer was the 55.05-Ounce Harris Marchand Gold Ingot which sold for $172,500.

Bowers and Merena Auctions, is preparing another phenomenal sale as the Official Auctioneer of the March 2010 Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo. A particularly diverse and important selection of United States currency is on hand for the auction.

Rich Uhrich had an interesting article in E-Gobrecht about The 1849 Dramatically Doubled Date Half Dollar. He states “I’ve always been intrigued by the 1849 Dramatically Doubled Date Half Dollar ever since I first saw it in The Complete Guide to Liberty Seated Half Dollars, by Randy Wiley and Bill Bugert, published in 1993.”

The United States Mint announced today that it will begin accepting orders for its 2010 Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set on February 11, 2010, at noon Eastern Time.

Coming on the heels of Heritage’s offering of a 1943 bronze cent struck at Philadelphia in their January 2010 FUN Auction, Heritage has just sold this 1943-S bronze cent in the February 2010 Long Beach Auction for $207,000.

Doug Winter provides some insight on Stack’s Selling Two Important Dahlonega Gold Coin Rarities at their recently concluded January 2010 Americana sale held in New York.

A one-day seminar, “Introduction to Counterfeit Detection of United States Coins,” will be offered April 22 at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn in Dearborn, Mich. The seminar is presented through the ANA’s Florence Schook School of Numismatics, and is in conjunction with the Michigan State Numismatic Society’s Spring Convention, April 23-25.

NEW & UPDATED – Our coverage of rare coin and currency news has expanded with Tim Shuck taking over as Editor of Coin News Daily. This is a special section of CoinLink where we scour the web for items of interest related to numismatics and post a short exerpt and link to these “off site” resources.

We have also made changes to The Bullion Report with daily news and article updates, and a weekly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.

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Just wondering how many e-Bay sellers there are here? I’m new to the site and testing the waters