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LOOSE CHANGE: JANUARY 1, 2023Here are some additional items in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor Nick Graver notified me of an article in the Cortland Standard about a relic challenge coin the New York town received in appreciation of firefighting gear it sent to Ukraine. Thanks - great war souvenir. -Editor 
Cortland sent firefighting gear to Ukraine. The Ukrainians it helped sent back a Russian fighter jet, in the form of a challenge coin. Fashioned from the shrapnel of a jet that was downed in Kyiv …
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A Coin World article by Paul Gilkes discusses the 2022 awardees of the James Smithson Bicentennial medal from the Smithsonian, including Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. -Editor
The awards recognize the artists' contributions to the American experience through music and the culture-changing impact they have made to American sound.
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A Numismatic News article by Rich Giedroyc examines modern replicas being offered by the Italian State Mint and others. -Editor 
Italy's Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato or Italian State Mint recently announced the mint was releasing replicas of the Venetian 1472-minted silver 1-lira to mark the 550th anniversary of this, the first Italian lira denominated coin. The coin is also known as a tron lira, having been named for the 68th Doge of Venice, Niccolò Tron, who authorized the coin. Tron was doge between 1471 and 1473. The coin proved to be popularly accepted in trade throughout Europe. The restrikes are being produced on an antique press similar to that which would have been used in 1472 at the Serenissima Mint. While these replicas may be of interest to some collectors as well as to the general public, they could also open Pandora's Box for the Italian State Mint and other world mints to begin re-issuing coins from the past with sufficient accuracy for the coins to be challenging to differentiate from the originals.
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