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  • August 2008

    • Olympic Collectors Go for Gold

      Portfolio  |  Aug 8, 08 4:50 PM CDT

      Olympic Collectors Go for Gold

      (Newser) - The 2008 Olympics have barely begun and collectors are already jockeying for possession of Beijing memorabilia. But serious shoppers are bypassing the hundreds of official knickknacks, hoping instead to score big-ticket items such as medals and sweaty uniforms, Portfolio reports. It's serious business: A gold medal from the 1904 Games in St. Louis—651 athletes vs. 11,000 this year—recently brought in $49,000, and jerseys from the 1992 “Dream Team” went for $10,800. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • eBay  • 2012 London Olympics  • sports collectibles  • collecting  • collectibles

  • May 2008

    • US Rations Silver Dollars as Investors Scoop Them Up

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 23, 08 9:31 AM CDT

      US Rations Silver Dollars as Investors Scoop Them Up

      (Newser) - Investors and coin collectors are hopping mad at the US Mint for placing quotas on purchasing silver dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. The price of silver has more than doubled in the last three years, and investors looking to cash in on the boom—and avoid the stock and real estate markets—are snapping up this year's "silver eagles" much faster than the mint can make them.  More »

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      US Mint  • metal prices  • collecting  • coins  • silver

  • March 2008

    • Cellphones Sound Last Call for British Icon

      USA Today  |  Mar 24, 08 12:18 PM CDT

      Cellphones Sound Last Call for British Icon

      (Newser) - Britain’s iconic red phone booths are going extinct in a country where cellphones outnumber people, USA Today reports. British Telecom is shrinking the overall number of pay phones and replacing the red booths with modern ones that double as wireless hotspots. With just 12,700 of the originals left on the streets, discarded red boxes are finding homes with collectors worldwide. More »

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      Great Britain  • cell phones  • London  • telephone  • collecting

  • November 2007

    • Prototype Coins Go for $30M

      Associated Press  |  Nov 18, 07 9:53 PM CST

      Prototype Coins Go for $30M

      (Newser) - An anonymous buyer spent more than $30 million on a collection of about 1,000 coins that never made it to circulation, the AP reports. The rare “pattern coins,” dated from 1792 to 1942, are trial designs the US Mint rejected before producing them for circulation. Those coins generally stay in the hands of the Mint, making a collection this large very valuable. More »

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      US Mint  • collecting  • coins

  • April 2007

    • Communist Art Is Capitalist Hit

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 23, 07 12:50 PM CDT

      Communist Art Is Capitalist Hit

      (Newser) - Nostalgia for the good old days of the USSR is in—at least for Russian art collectors. These days, communist-inspired paintings of peasant scenes and heroic workers have acquired a uniquely capitalist hipness. "The art was propaganda of happiness," says Yuri Tyukhtin, a banker who runs an art gallery and likes the monumentality of the work. More »

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      Russia  • art  • propaganda  • capitalism  • art collector  • communism  • collecting  • USSR  • Soviet

    • Can Chinese Art Stay Hot?

      Portfolio  |  Apr 20, 07 12:35 PM CDT

      Can Chinese Art Stay Hot?

      (Newser) - After a year of high excitement and higher prices, Chinese artists are hot at influential European fairs. But the bubble may have grown too fast, and Portfolio's Alexandra Wolfe reports on speculation that it's about to burst. One curator says Chinese art is "a consumer category, not a collector category.” More »

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      China  • art  • art market  • art collector  • collecting  • Chinese art

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