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"The age of paper dollars and metal coins is coming to a close. In The End of Money, David Wolman introduces the people, technologies, and trends powering this shakeup, taking us to hotspots of the cashless revolution. He zooms from the cash-strapped slums of Delhi, to the tech-obsessed streets of Tokyo, to London to hobnob with digital cash gurus. Then it's on to Reykjavik, where Icelanders are about to kill their national currency; Washington, to...
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Krause Publications, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The U.S. Mint produces error coins every year on every denomination. From doubled die cents to rotated reverse quarters to missing letters on dollars, these coins can be worth far more than face value. Featuring expert insight, hundreds of close-up images, concise details on what to look for and where, and up-to-date market values, you will learn how to spot and profit from even the most well disguised treasures..."--Page 4 of cover.
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U.S. error coin guide volume 2020
Publisher
Stan McDonald
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Nahuatl
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"A comprehensive listing of over 2,000 US error coints of all types as encapsulated by PCGS, ANACS, and NGC and sold at major auctions. Modern-day photographs of error coins. Included are double dies, off-center, planchet, striking errors, incorrect planchets, wrong metal, split planchets, mules, and more." -- back cover.
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Whitman Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The Official Red Book A Guide Book of United States Coins® is 75 years young and going strong. Since 1946 collectors around the country have loved the books grade-by-grade coin values, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare are your coins? How much are they worth? The 75th edition of the Red Book tells you, covering everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old...
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Whitman Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Containing Mint records and wholesale prices for U.S. coins from 1616 to the present time, including colonials, regular issues, commemoratives, territorials, gold, bullion coins, Proof sets, and Mint sets. Information on collecting coins -- how coins are produced -- mints and mintmarks -- grading of coins -- location of mintmarks -- preserving coins -- starting a collection -- history of mints -- and interesting descriptions of all U.S. copper, nickel,...
7) Coins
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Every coin in our pocket is a little work of art with a big story behind it. Beyond the usefulness of buying us the things we need or want, each coin represents a slice of American history. This book tells readers more about our metal currency, including the different collectible coins and how coins are, made at the U.S. Mint. Activities are included so readers can put what they've learned to practical use.
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Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange...
11) Stranger things
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Looniverse volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2013
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English
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When ordinary third-grader Ed finds a coin with the words "strange" and "stranger" on both sides, weird things start happening around him--but when his friends start blaming him for all the weirdness Ed wonders if this coin is not too strange for comfort.
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Ed, his friends, and even his little sister are eager to go to Dinosaur Discovery, but ever since he found the magic coin called Silver Center, strange things happen around Ed--so he is not surprised to find that a blue dinosaur has followed his sister home.
13) The diver
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Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"Emma practices tirelessly to become a great diver, but as competition day approaches, her nerves get the better of her. When she picks up a penny for good luck, she has no idea that this little copper coin has dreamed of becoming a diver for his entire life!"--Provided by publisher.
14) Meltdown madness
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Looniverse volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted. He must find another way to raise money--and fast! Ed uses his new found ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go awry and Ed ends up needing money for the soccer team, his friend Mouse, AND two new windows! With surreal and funny antics throughout, the second book in this heavily illustrated early chapter book series is sure to keep kids...
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Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay. A family, each member in mortal...
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Whitman Publishing, LLC
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English
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"Collectors around the country love the book's grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data. How rare are your coins? How much are they worth? The Red Book tells you, covering everything from early colonial copper tokens to hefty Old West silver dollars and dazzling gold coins. You'll find 32,500+ prices for more than 7,600 coins, tokens, medals, sets,...
19) Deception
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.
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English
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This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of Queen Elizabeth II, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. All decimal coinage since 1968 is listed in a separate volume, available as an independent publication.
The catalogue includes up-to-date values for every coin,...
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