European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 Coin Conifer the stars and stripes wednesday december 18, 1985 today s crossword mint has Golden idea Tor collectors by Dnelly after 53 years we will he Able to buy Puld Bullion in the form of coins from our own country. The mint has announced the minting of four Gold coins Start ing next october. This buying of foreign Gold this year Cost americans 5400 i Iii for. Alone which in turn put us deeper in the deficit Hole. These coins will be Legal Lender for their face value the four coins to be minted arc $50, j25, Sio and $5, weighing respectively an ounce. Hilf ounce Quarter ounce and a tenth of an ounce. Each will have a Gold Content of .999 pure. The buy and sell Price Wilt change each Day with the spot Gold Price. In the event you cannot afford the Cost of an ounce of Gold you can buy a half ounce or a in nah of an ounce. Right now an ounce of Gold is around $320. The designs for these coins have not been released Yel but the mini says icy will not be another Susan b. Anthony Type design. Good news the second Coin release will be limited to 1986, so nay attention so you won t mix these coins up with the tour Gold coins mentioned above. Next year will be the year of the lady the statue of Liberty so to help pay for the restoration and Upkeep of the lady three coins will be issued. To make it even More interesting we can afford a couple of them. There will be one Gold Coin one Silver Coin and one Copper Nickel Coin. The Gold Coin will have a face value of s5 and wit have slightly less than a half ounce of pure Gold. The actual Purchase Price is not known As of now but you can bet it will be Over $100. The next Coin Wil be a Silver Dollar with 90 percent pure Silver of about 26.73 Grams a bit More than three quarters of an ounce a is the total weight of the Coin. The third Coin will be a Copper Nickel half Dollar. These coins will Salute the Lalue of Liberty As Fol lows the j5 Gold Coin Bijj Salute the statue itself and by the Way will be sold in proof Only. The Silver Dollar will commemorate Ellis Island and Torch to in Iron Zorro Tawf up1 photo some coins will help pay for the statue renovation. Will be minted in by Brilliant uncirculated and proof. Your Choice at two different prices. The Copper Nickel half Dollar Wil pay tribute to the immigrants who came through Ellis Island. R -. Frank Annunzio. D-lll., chairman of the House subcommittee on consumer affairs and coinage insisted that one of the three coins have at least the first line of Emma la Arus famous poem give me your lir cd your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe Annunzio did not state which of the three coins will Bear the inscription. These coins Are in production now and will continue to be minted until the end of 1986. If you have an Opportunity to buy these coins i strongly recommend hat you do so unless you plan to be around for another 100 years when the Bicentennial for the lady is celebrated. Each Coin will have a surcharge attached to the Price of the Coin and All the profits will go to the fund to restore the statue which has fallen into a bad slate of disrepair Over the last Century. It s your Chance to own a Nice commemorative Coin and to help pay for the much needed . These coins should be released by next july 4. There will be a Coin stamp show at Patrick Henry Vil Lage elementary school in Heidelberg on feb. 2 from 9 . To 5 . Have a Happy Holiday season. . Museum gets a giant Gem As Vij of for Christmas new York a the brazilian Princess the world s largest Cut Gyrn has been Given to the american museum of natural history by an alaskan donor just in time for Christmas. The 9.5-Pound, 21,327-Carat Light Blue Topaz is the size of a Large Grapefruit or an Auto Headlamp Joseph Antonacci a museum spokesman said. It s a sort of Christmas gift for the the Stone was Cut from a 75-Pound Crystal that was found in the mountains of Eastern Brazil More than a Quarter Century ago and brought to the United states by Edward Swoboda a Gem dealer Antonacci said. The Crystal too Large to be Cut by machinery available at the time finally was Cut in the mid-1970s. It was later sold to Art Sexauer a Gem collector from Alaska. Sexauer loaned the Gem in the late 1970s to the smithsonian museum of natural history in Washington. But it was rarely exhibited because of a museum policy against displaying objects that it does not own according to John White curator of the smithsonian s Gem and Mineral collection. The brazilian Princess was returned to Sexaur earlier this year after the smithsonian decided not to accept it As a gift White said. Asked about the Gem s value Antonacci said it was priceless As far As the museum was concerned. But gemologists said prices for Topaz of natural color Range around $30 per Carat. Lemmon wins latin prize Mexico City a american actor Jack Lem Mon was awarded a Coral prize for an exemplary artistic life at the seventh International festival of new latin american Cinema the official cuban news Agency reported. Prensa Latina in a dispatch monitored in Mexico City said the award was presented to Lemmon for his humane activities known to win the heart of our Mike co pm Rve. 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