What is the most interesting history lesson you have learn from coins?

I learned through coins that the vast majority of FLOTUS's are not very attractive even if depicted in 24k gold.

 

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The mint refers to it as Sackvile, but I always knew it as Vincennes. Finally, George Rogers Clark is commemorated and given credit for contributing to the winning of the American Revolution in the western theater. With only a handful of men, he tricked the British into surrendering their position........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Vincennes

 

Coins are history, made and used and saved in specific time periods on this earth.

Learning the back story and context of them keeps me interested all the time.

Time is the thing that intrigues us all!

 

You know that there is a coin with Bugs Bunny actually on it. 2015 Canadian Mint Product.

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For me, the 1921 P,D,S Walking Liberty Half Dollar got my attention. Why were there so few minted? My research explained the post WWI recession, and the Pitman Act, and how they contributed to the low mintages.

From that, I studied other recessions throughout our country's history and how our coinage minting was affected, along with the forcing of the silver dollar by the Silver Barons onto the public...

 

Take a coin in your collection, any coin. I'm a US collector, for example. Then go read what was happening in that particular year. Sometimes, the connection between that coin and what happened in that year is eye-opening and, in some cases, a bit chilling. But it's always fun.

 

I created such a thread, asking you to post a coin and tell us about a major event which took place in that year:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-a-coin-and-tell-us-what-happened-in-that-year.270345/
Maybe we can revive it...?

 

I learned that sometimes the production of a country's coins mirrors the general trends in government and business in that country at that certain point in time.

See the link in my signature.