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LOOSE CHANGE: MARCH 29, 2020Here are some additional items in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor Missing 1913 Liberty Nickels Located?
Eric P. Newman's Former Residence, Cecil Avenue, St. Louis, MO I literally just saw this one as I was getting ready to publish tonight's newsletter. This will rewrite some numismatic history and will likely result in a legal battle as big as that over the 1933 double eagles or the S.S. Central America treasure. Something here for coin and National Bank Note collectors alike. Watch the numismatic media for more coverage this week. The original 1913 Liberty Nickel case had eight slots, with five of the slots holding the five known 1913 Liberty Nickels. People have always wondered why the other slots were populated with three random Buffalo nickels. Looks like two more 1913 Liberty nickels have been found. Wow! Check out tonight's 10 o'clock news coverage from a St. Louis TV station. -Editor  To watch the complete video report, see:
Edwin Tobler (1922-2020)
Ursula Kampmann of CoinsWeekly published an article about the late Swiss numismatist and author Edwin Tobler. -Editor To read the complete article, see:
A Digital ‘Treasury Dollar Bill’
Here's a Forbes piece on planning for a U.S. digital dollar. -Editor On March 23rd House Democrats did something I and many others have been advocating for some time – draft plans to legislate into existence a digital dollar, along with a system of digital wallets. We’ll call it a Treasury Dollar Bill (TDB). It is effectively a one-dollar ‘perpetual,’ a.k.a. ‘consol,’ much like the Federal Reserve notes we call ‘dollar bills.’ Treasury will directly convey Congressionally determined ‘amounts’ of these Treasury Dollar Bills, which we’ll call ‘Starter Deposits,’ to holders of Treasury Direct Accounts, which can be digitized into digital wallets as described below. To read the complete article, see:
Emperor Hadrian's Travel Series Coins
Here's another nice CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series article by Mike Markowitz. -Editor
Yet remarkably, the Roman emperor Hadrian spent half of his 21-year reign on the road, visiting almost every province of the vast empire. The mint celebrated these grand tours with extensive coinage in gold, silver and bronze, known to numismatists as the "Travel Series". To read the complete article, see:
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