Coins DIG

Three students aged seventeen and who have been living in Long Island, were arrested after police caught them printing fake ten, twenty and fifty dollar bills. The place where the printing took place was the back of a pickup truck.

A collection of extremely rare Roman coins were discovered in Bath. The exact location would be the site of a city centre hotel. Archaeologists so far have been able to find around 150 Roman coins during the works on the new Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa.

Mark Berg was able to discover the first three $10 notes dated 1837 and launched by the Saginaw City Bank. The three banknotes feature serial numbers 1, 2 and 3. All of the ten dollar notes are in perfect condition.

Back in 1836 Saginaw City's founder, Norman Little, was the president of the bank and signed these banknotes Dec. 26, 1837, which is exactly 170 years ago.

The man, who calls himself Paul Brant refers to himself as a penny pitcher. However, the quarters and dollar coins he saved really paid off.

The 70-year-old Brant used all his savings in change in order to purchase a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck, it is interesting to note that he bought his previous track 13 years ago using spare change as well.

There is a tradition that each year children from participating schools in the New York City gather pennies from their family and friends. Afterwards the collected pennies do not go to piggy banks but are stored in one place where they are trucked to the so-called Penny Harvest Field, which is a huge penny-holding construction located at Rockefeller Center.

A refund of $130 is given by the U.S. Mint to those who possess 2004 United States Mint Lewis and Clark Coin and Pouch Set. This is only in case Shawnee Nation United Remnant Band of Ohio created the pouch.

Syrian archaeologists were able to discover a cemetery, which dates back to Roman era, and namely to the 3^rd century BC. The cemetery was found 440 miles near the capital of Damascus, which is in the northeastern part of Syria.

For the first time Malta's Christmas stamps will be part of an issue which will be partnered with Philatelic and Numismatic Bureau of the Vatican.

In the period between the 17^th and 19^th of October, the H.R. Harmer Inc. auction presented material, which was originally came from the American Bank Note Co. archives. Among this material there was an exclusive sample book of Russian bank note proofs, which received the highest honors at the auction.

A hot debate was to take place on the fact that the U.S. Treasury should be the one to control the level of metal composition in coins and whether the ban of extracting copper from the melting pennies should be lifted.

Several additional debates were to take place in House Committee on Financial Services regarding the same matter.