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Historical coins are much more than just pieces of jewelry for collections and exhibitions and are of particular interest for research. The University of Trier has had a collection of mainly ancient coins for several years. The more than 500 copies have now been digitized and made accessible in portals. “The digitization of coin collections is a great benefit for science. Integration into databases and permanent access to a large number of coins opens up new options for research, but also for teaching,” explains Prof. Dr. Frank Daubner, the ancient historian responsible for the collection at Trier University. Researchers can...

A million dollar coin collection put together by Robert McCorkell could soon be in the hands of a Neo-Nazi group. If this groups behavior is anything like the The Immortals, the news could start to be littered with some very eerie stories in the near future. … The group, National Alliance, has been labelled the “most dangerous” Neo-Nazi group in America, not to mention having been linked to various bombings and assassinations over a “three-decade campaign” of violence. … Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Alabama-based civil rights group (SPLC), and a top expert on hate and extremist groups,...

TRENTON, N.J. - An anonymous buyer has paid more than $30 million for a collection of rare U.S. prototype coins, some from the 1700s, that never went into circulation, according to the dealer that brokered the deal. ADVERTISEMENT The collection consists of about 1,000 coins that collectors refer to as pattern coins — trial designs that never went into production because the U.S. Mint chose other designs. "This collection is an incredible collection. ... These were some of the first coins ever, ever struck by the United States government," said Laura Sperber, a partner in Legend Numismatics of Lincroft, N.J.,...