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PVC Damage on World Coins – What It Is & How to Avoid It

By Lance Tchor – Founder and Co-President, WINGS® Coins LLC …… PVC and coins don’t mix Otherwise known as polyvinylchloride, PVC is found in many different plastic-based products. Despite the fact that the chemical has been identified as a carcinogen and pollutant, it is widely used in an array of industries with relatively benign outcomes. […]

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CoinWeek IQ: A Guide to Certified Coin Stickers

Not all MS65s are created equal   By Lianna Spurrier for CoinWeek ….. [Editor’s Note: It must be understood that certification services (such as those mentioned below) that sticker certified coins accept that the original grading service made the correct call as to a given coin’s grade. The purpose of a sticker is to provide […]

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Cool Coins! 2017 Episode 1 – Over a Million Dollars in Rare Coins – 4K Video

Cool Coins! kicks off 2017 with this “million dollar” episode, featuring WINGS Co-President Lance Tchor and his 1952 Peru 100 Soles gold coin with deep mirror Prooflike surfaces in an NGC MS67 holder; error coin specialist and author Fred Weinberg with a very special “golden” State Quarter (a coin you might find in change!), treasure […]

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World Coins – Affordable Fourpence Silver Groats of King Henry VIII

Coin Rarities & Related Topics: News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, markets, and coin collecting #361 A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds ….. Henry VIII is the most famous king in the history of England, and perhaps had the most impact on history of any English king. His second daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, may be […]

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COINS in UHD: The 10 Best CoinWeek Videos of 2016

It’s hard to believe that the end is upon us… the end of 2016, that is. With the better part of the calendar year behind us, the editors of CoinWeek felt that it was time to take a look back at a banner year for CoinWeek’s video team. In 2016, CoinWeek fully committed itself to producing […]

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PVC Damage on World Coins – What It Is & How to Avoid It

By Lance Tchor – Founder and Co-President, WINGS® Coins LLC …… PVC and coins don’t mix Otherwise known as polyvinylchloride, PVC is found in many different plastic-based products. Despite the fact that the chemical has been identified as a carcinogen and pollutant, it is widely used in an array of industries with relatively benign outcomes. […]

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PVC Damage on World Coins – What It Is & How to Avoid It

By Lance Tchor – Founder and Co-President, WINGS® Coins LLC ……   PVC and coins don’t mix Otherwise known as polyvinylchloride, PVC is found in many different plastic-based products. Despite the fact that the chemical has been identified as a carcinogen and pollutant, it is widely used in an array of industries with relatively benign […]

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Philippine Coinage Under U.S. Administration

By Lance Tchor – Founder and Co-President, WINGS® Coins LLC …… American was propelled into war with Spain after an explosion that sank the battleship USS Maine at Havana, Cuba. “Remember the Maine” was the rallying cry that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. The U.S. demanded that Spain withdraw completely from Cuba, Spain’s […]

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WINGS® Coins rolls out new web site , Facebook page and expands to reviewing Ancients

WINGS® Coins is pleased to announce the introduction of their newly designed web site (www.wingscoins.com). According to Lance Tchor, company president, the new site makes it much easier to navigate, is more focused on the ancient and world coin customer and has also streamlined certain areas on the site to highlight WINGS® Coins services of […]

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World Coins – Tips on Grading the Mexican Caballito Peso

by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for CoinWeek…. Grading the Mexican Caballito Peso requires skilled eyes and a working knowledge of the silver coin’s design and strike nuances. The early 20th-century peso is a beautiful silver coin with a compelling story, yet it had but a short life during troubling times in the Latin American nation. The Caballito […]

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WINGS Announces Pre-ANA World’s Fair of Money Free Submission Program

By WINGS Coins, LLC ….. WINGS Coins announces that for any five items submitted at regular price (US$12.50) that it will review an equal amount of items for free. This applies for any submission with a post-mark on or before August 8, 2016. Visit the website to download submission forms. You do not need to […]

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WINGS Announces Pre-ANA World’s Fair of Money Free Submission Program

By WINGS Coins, LLC …..   WINGS Coins announces that for any five items submitted at regular price (US$12.50) that it will review an equal amount of items for free. This applies for any submission with a post-mark on or before August 8, 2016. Visit the website to download submission forms. You do not need […]

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