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London -
British coins generally feature the image of Queen Elizabeth II - but now she's been joined by a famous musician, rock icon John Lennon. The British Beatle was recently honored with a commemorative coin struck by the Royal Mint and released last week.
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Vienna -
Produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, the biggest coin in the world is more than half a meter wide, weighs 100 kilogram and will be on auction in Vienna next week. How weird does one have to be in order to buy this, to want to own this?
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A silver dollar commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille was unveiled on Wednesday. The U.S. coin is the first in that nation's history to have readable Braille characters.
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A rare silver coin used to pay the half-shekel head tax to the Temple was found in what was the main drainage channel of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period. The excavations are directed by Eli Shukron and Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haif
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The loonie turns 20 this week. Way back in its humble beginnings it was only worth 75 cents to the American dollar. Times have changed. Now it is approaching the same value only needing 7 cents to tie the value.
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Coin toss determines the winner of the Spanish Mayor elections.
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced last week that a commemorative coin, a crown, will be minted next year in honor of Prince Charles' 60th birthday next year.
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A borrowed and signed half dollar hovers off the back of his hand with no threads or magnets, start clean end clean
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The Royal Canadian Mint's newest coin will be the size of a party pizza and worth $2 Million.
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WOW it confounds the mind as to how he does these tricks
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Some £4.1m in counterfeit coins is seized in north London, Hertfordshire and Essex.
A "unique" medieval coin dating from the reign of William the Conqueror is discovered in a field near Gloucester.
 A crash of a Brinks tractor-trailer in northeastern Ontario has seriously injured two people and scattered millions of dollars in Canadian coins.
The Royal Mint has issued a new 50p coin which attempts to explains football's offside rule to the many who do not understand it.
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