The Hand of Fate (Ace Comics) Issue #23

Coins

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Can Classic United States Gold Be Affordable?

Jun 15, 2020

ANY ONE WHO HAS BEEN COLLECTING for any amount of time has most likely heard the siren song of gold. It is the king of the coinage metals, has been chased after by people all over the world for millennia, has been made into jewelry and coins for just

Numismatic News

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$100 Note Shows Certification by Another Country

Jan 19, 2024

■ I have a $100 Federal Reserve note on which there are two purple stamps and some Arabic writing. Can you tell me why the note has been stamped and signed? I had someone who can read Arabic view your note. It appears this note has traveled to you fr

Steam World

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Not (quite) The 'master Shot' comment

Dec 15, 2023

Over the past 30 years or so, we’ve lost most of the great steam era photographers. Only a handful of those who were very young when they started photographing steam are still with us. I met many, maybe even most, of them during my time looking after

Practical Boat Owner

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Mast Musings

Jan 18, 2024

Marsali Taylor sails an Offshore 8M, Karima S. She’s a dinghy instructor and author of The Shetland Sailing Mysteries starring liveaboard sleuth, Cass Lynch. The days are beginning to lengthen, the shalders (oyster catchers) are peep-peeping on the f

Numismatic News

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My Favorite Coins: The Buffalo Nickel

Feb 9, 2024

When you’ve been collecting for more than 65 years, you’re bound to acquire some coins that you like better than others. In this column, I’m going to tell you about some of my favorite coins. Here, I’m going to introduce you to the 1914-D Buffalo nic

Artist Profile

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Preview: Australian Impressionists at National Gallery London

Mar 1, 2017

REVIEW STELLA DOWNER EACH TIME I VISIT LONDON, ONE of my first calls is to Trafalgar Square and The National Gallery. This must be my favourite gallery anywhere – the temple of my soul! Walking through the galleries filled with the centuries of paint

British Railway Modelling (BRM)

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A CELEBRATION OF BR STANDARD 9F 2-10-0S, by John Jennison, published by Irwell Press. PRICE: £28.95

Apr 20, 2023

This is the sixth in this pictorial series by the same author from the same publisher. As with all the others, it’s a veritable visual feast (which is what it sets out to do; and succeeds admirably). I must stress from the outset that I have an ‘inte

Numismatic News

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Liberty Head Nickels Cent v. Cent-less

Oct 30, 2020

The United States Mint has been in the nickel business since 1866, even though it was still pounding out a certain amount of silver half-dimes as late as 1873. The introduction of the Liberty Head nickel image came in 1883, as the second design for t

Steam World

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Comment

Jul 15, 2022

Where railways are concerned, I’m a fan of the off-beat. True, I started by standing beside main lines taking locomotive numbers, but once I discovered the derelict Fairford and the wonderful dilapidated but still in use Culkerton, I was hooked. Ther

World Coin News

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Chihli Specimen Dollars Drive SARC Auction 38

Nov 2, 2020

STEPHEN ALBUM RARE Coins Auction 38 featured an exceptionally rare pair of Chinese specimen dollars from the Province of Chihli in the name of Kuang Hsu. Struck at the Peiyang Arsenal mint both pieces are the Y73 dollar type but they exhibit all the

Numismatic News

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An Historical Look at Paper Money Grading

Jan 28, 2022

Editor’s Note: For nearly 70 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was onc