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Welcome to the National Numismatic Collection (NNC) of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the largest numismatic collections in the world and the largest in North America. Located in the National Museum of American History, Behring Center, the NNC includes approximately 1.6 million objects. There are over 450,000 coins, medals and decorations and 1.1 million pieces of paper money (including the recently acquired “Confederate Treasury horde” of cancelled Confederate paper money) in the collection, highlighting the entire numismatic history of the world.
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Welcome to the National Numismatic Collection (NNC) of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the largest numismatic collections in the world and the largest in North America. Located in the National Museum of American History, Behring Center, the NNC includes approximately 1.6 million objects. There are over 450,000 coins, medals and decorations and 1.1 million pieces of paper money (including the recently acquired “Confederate Treasury horde” of cancelled Confederate paper money) in the collection, highlighting the entire numismatic history of the world.
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It is interesting that the collector noted on his envelope the mintmark and field letter information. In fact, the contents of the collection suggested that he believed in collecting these issues by mintmark. Many of the coins from the Bavarian collection that I have seen were in better condition than this one. I believe the collector sought out the best specimen of each variety that he could find or afford but prefered to have an example that was less than perfect to having no coin at all.
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Bob Harwell of Hancock & Harwell Rare Coins and Jeff Garrett of Mid American Rare Coins galleries have announced the purchase the world's finest set of Georgia Gold Coins. This amazing collection is comprised of three groups of gold coins minted from 1830 to 1861 in Georgia and North Carolina from gold discovered in North Georgia in 1828. The collection was purchased for over three million dollars, and all the coins have been graded and encapsulated by NGC.
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The world's record price for any rare coin is $7.59 million paid for a 1933 U.S. $20 denomination Double Eagle gold coin in July 2002. This page speaks of a Southern California collector who has paid $5 million for a rare United States nickel, a record price for a five-cent coin.
