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Features
Bell set for biggest sale at Expo
Page 17
Regulars

Focus on RCM Products
Page 20

Are you buying or selling?
Page 26

Check out the shows in your area
Page 30
Editorial
Legal-tender coins can’t always be spent
Today, if you have non-circulating legal tender you have a few choices: hope your local bank values your business well enough to take them; use them to buy product at an RCM boutique; or, try to pass them off on local businesses in the course of your normal business.
Columns

Errors & Varieties
Spectacular Canadian error collection hits market
Page 10

CoinNet
Progressive dealers should keep an eye on bitcoins
Page 11

The World of Money
Accomplished lawyer amassed extensive medal collection
Page 12

Colonial Tokens
City Bank tokens more rare than Habitant cousins
Page 13

Notes & Bills
Birds took flight on popular banknote series
Page 15

New Issues
Formidable megafauna
Page 28

Numismatic Profile
Climbing nature’s heights, one shadow at a time
Page 29

Numismatic Profile
Summer job leads to career in numismatics
Page 32
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