This week’s headlines include Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, a Canadian discovery $2 note, and a numismatic exhibit opening at Washington University.
On January 4, President Joe Biden awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 individuals, including Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Jane Goodall, and Bono.
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Israeli researchers recently uncovered a rare collection of ancient coins during ongoing excavations in the Jordan Valley. The hoard comprising about 160 coins was minted more than 2,000 years ago and is believed to have belonged to King Alexander Jannaeus.
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Stack’s Bowers Galleries will offer a previously unknown Dominion of Canada 1870 $2 bank note in its upcoming Canadian Collectors Choice Online Auction on January 28. Issued in Victoria, British Columbia, this particular note was thought to be nonexistent.
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A new exhibit, “Forging a Nation: The Founding of the U.S. Mint, 1792,” will open on January 13 at Washington University in St. Louis and run through July 13. The display features the mint’s founding documents, including a Thomas Jefferson-signed copy of the 1792 Mint Act.
