Barbados declares itself a republic, cutting colonial-era ties with Britain and Queen Elizabeth II CBS News article:...
The American CBS Television network ran it's weekly "60 Minutes" television program and today (November 21, 2021) presented a program on Roman...
The 1931 Universal Studios film "Dracula" is 80 years old now but is still a well known motion picture. Actor Bela Lugosi portrayed Bram Stoker's...
A coin from the last days of the Ottoman Empire: [IMG] Turkey 20 Kurush (Piastres) AH 1327 (AD 1909) Regnal Year 9 (AD 1917) Silver, 37 mm,...
Recently I acquired a British silver threepence of King George III dated 1763: [IMG] Great Britain Threepence 1763 Silver, 17.5 x 17.0 mm, 1.46...
There are many posts about Coinstar and similar change redemption machine coin finds, but how about the grocery store automatic change machine...
There's a silver dollar in it. Work crews were still searching Thursday morning for a time capsule they believed was buried inside the pedestal...
This Egyptian medallion is based on an Austria-Hungary Empire gold coin. [IMG] Egyptian Ladies Medallion Brass, 40 mm, 10.88 gm Obverse:...
[IMG] Hungary 20 Korona 1897 Gold, 21 mm, 6.75 gm Obverse: Emperor Franz Joseph I. standing FERENCZ.JÓZSEF I.K.A.CS ÉS M.H.S.D.O.AP.KIR 1897...
[IMG] Harry Healy Trading Post token, Good For $1.00 Aluminum, 38 mm, 4.20 gm Obverse: HARRY HEALY Reverse: GOOD FOR $1.00 IN TRADE This...
From the Associated Press: A book checked out a half-century ago has been anonymously returned to a library in northeastern Pennsylvania,...
The diary was found by the family of one of Betsy Ross's descendants in Marin, California. It began with an unmarked, unremarkable box tucked in...
In 2018 I found an old book in a laundry room entitled My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin which was published in 1925. Sven Hedin was a wealthy...
I had wanted to have one of these big coins since I was a kid in 1964 when I saw one in R. S. Yeoman's book A Catalog of Modern World Coins. I...
From the Washington Post, May 2, 2021 A silver English shilling found during a dig in St. Mary’s, Md., is more proof that archaeologists have...
The only United States $1000 bills I have seen have been at coin show exhibitions and in museums. They used to circulate, however, and...
Tempest Storm, the famous "Exotic Dancer" or "Stripper", passed on April 20, 2021 at the age of 93. I do not have a US coin to honor her but here...
The television program "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" was a crime-mystery series which ran on the CBS Television network from 1955 to 1962. The...
A Georgia man says he was given $915 worth of pennies as a form of payment from his previous employer The man said he was shocked to see his...
This little coin is a silver rupee of Mughal India minted around AD 1680 at Surat, a city in northwest India. Surat was the largest and busiest...
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