LOOSE CHANGE: JUNE 30, 2024

Alaska Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced Anthony Pisano, 50, to 300 years for the triple homicide in the Bullion Brothers store on Spenard Road in Anchorage on Sept. 12, 2017.

This was the maximum sentence allowable under the law and included three 99-year sentences for each murder victim and a five-year sentence for the assault of Michael Dupree, with two years running concurrently. The murder victims included Bullion Brothers store owner, Steven Cook, and residents Daniel McCreadie and Kenneth Hartman.

To read the complete article, see:
ANTHONY PISANO SENTENCED Counterfeit Banknotes in AustraliaTO 300 YEARS FOR 2017 SHOOTING DEATHS (https://www.anchoragepolice.com/news/anthony-pisano-sentenced-to-300-years-for-2017-shooting-deaths)

 

To watch the complete video, see:
1884 Scottish Livestock Silver Medal (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qS6I6rylCc8)

 

A decade earlier in 1910, Congress had passed legislation creating the Commission of Fine Arts to advise on matters involving art and architecture in the District of Columbia and executive departments of the United States Government. The commission, operating with support from the Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies, routinely reviewed plans for public buildings, fountains, statues, medals, coins, and other public objects, and provided suggestions to the designers and artists involved.

Although it did not officially approve designs, the Commission's recommendation was seldom ignored; members often worked directly with architects and artists to modify and perfect their designs.

The support of Chairman Charles Moore was especially important for any artist aspiring to work on a government-funded project. Included in the Commission's authority was the implicit ability to arrange competitions for the design of government medals, insignia, and coins, among other things. The Commission conducted these competitions in cooperation with the appropriate executive department subject to available funding and could choose the artists who would be invited to participate. Recommendations of the Commission were forwarded to the relevant Cabinet secretary for final approval.

Chairman Moore and sculptor-member James Earle Fraser met with United States Mint Director Raymond T. Baker on May 26 to discuss the Congressional Joint Resolution.[2] Baker stated that he wanted to have a Peace Dollar commemorating the end of the war and that the design should be distinctively American.

To read the complete article, see:
Making the Peace Dollar, Part Two: Round of Approval (https://coinweek.com/making-the-peace-dollar-part-two-round-of-approval/)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
LOOSE CHANGE: JUNE 16, 2024 : Making the Peace Dollar, Part One (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n24a26.html)

 

Melbourne hospitality businesses are already doing it tough, with diners spending less and costs soaring. Now restaurateurs also have to worry about counterfeit currency. Twice in the past month, Omar El Deek from South Yarra's Cosi has discovered that customers paid for their meals with fake $50 and $100 notes.

It's never happened before. Both times, my wife counted the money in the office the next morning, and it was clearly fake. You can tell when you look at it properly. The touch is different, the plastic window on the $50 note doesn't have the coat of arms.

El Deek thinks customers at his Italian restaurant were unaware they were carrying counterfeits. I don't believe they were trying to scam us, he says. The notes were in circulation. After the second occasion, he bought a detector machine for $300 and is now running every note through it. We take the money off the table, run it through the machine and if it bounces back, we will let the customer know, he says.

To read the complete article, see:
‘The fakes are getting better': Restaurants hit with counterfeit money crime (https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/the-fakes-are-getting-better-restaurants-hit-with-counterfeit-money-crime-20240614-p5jlrc.html)

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