I recently read a book titled The Miss Stone Affair : America's First Modern Hostage Crisis by Teresa Carpenter, which is about the 1901...
The California gold discovery occurred in 1848 and as the centennial approached, many companies began striking medals to commemorate the event. A...
I have had this brass token since the 1960's when I found it in a coin dealer's "junk box". Several years ago I looked it up and found out what...
This coin appeared in an episode of "Dragnet 1970" that was run on cable today. [IMG] Panama-Pacific 1915-S Commemorative Round $50 Gold Dragnet...
By coincidence, this little item arrived just before the Mexican holiday "Cinco de Mayo", which celebrates the Mexican Army victory over the...
I checked the local CoinStar machine today and saw several coins in the reject bin. Usually a foreign coin causes the machine to reject coins,...
The episode of the American television program "Gunsmoke" shows a large octagonal pioneer gold coin. Posted as the episode guest star Leonard...
A couple of members have mentioned the 1990 film "Ghost" where Patrick Swayze is murdered and returns as a ghost to protect his girlfriend Demi...
Does anyone know or can guess who the figure is on the new US Marshals Commemorative Silver Dollar? [IMG] He looks familiar but I can not place...
The Wells Fargo History Museum in San Francisco was closed for a while for a remodeling and has reopened. [IMG] Wells Fargo History Museum...
I have rarely seen coin shows covered on the television news, usually only if an extremely rare coin is shown, or there is some activity like the...
Supposedly the US is finally going to drop the economic sanctions against Cuba. Cuba made some nice coins, here is one: [IMG] Cuba Peso 1953...
John Roland Calder, a San Francisco student, was awarded the Samuel Bridge Medal in 1908. More on the Samuel Bridge Medal can be found here:...
Moved to US Forum https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-john-roland-calder-story-awarded-the-san-francisco-bridge-medal-in-1908.255819 Please...
From CNN: ISIS is planning to mint its own currency in gold, silver and copper, the group said Thursday. Its aim is to stay away from the...
Got this little item instead of a US gold Kennedy half dollar: [IMG] France Gold Louis d'Or 1786 - Louis XVI (Actually a double Louis d'Or)...
I just finished reading Qataban and Sheba by Wendell Phillips, published in 1955. The fuller title is Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the...
The Ottoman Zeri Mahbub gold coins were minted from 1451 to 1839 according to Friedberg's Gold Coins of the World. They weighed around 3 grams and...
No doubt many here have read Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel Treasure Island at some time or another. In the book, when the group of...
The Kennedy Half Dollar has been in the news recently due to the sale of 2014 50th anniversary commemorative coins made by the US mint. The...
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