(Ever try to decipher a dealer's pricing code on the back of a 2x2?) The Imitation Game (released December 25, 2014) was a movie about Alan...
Q. David Bowers's book on treasure hoards promises hours of engaged reading. Some of the stories are known in the hobby: The SS Central America,...
I went to post these under Resources, but the old-fashioned cataloguing system did not allow a good place for them. A Guide Book of Mercury...
I tried several times to post a book review to the ANA member blogs. I got three failures and gave up. Does anyone have any insights here. (No, I...
Cash in Your Coins: Selling the Rare Coins You’ve Inherited 2nd Edition, by Beth Deisher, Whitman, 2014, 304 pages, $9.95. Intended for the...
You can start with the Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars that honor Apollo 11. Many nations issued Non-circulating legal tender and other...
Chopmarked Coins: A History; the silver coins used in China 1600-1935 by Colin James Gullberg (iAsure Group JEAN Publications, June 2014, 187...
Sorry Minnesota Customers — Law Effectives Today Deprives Citizens Of Their Choice Of Coin Dealers Liberty Coin Service’s Monthly Review of...
Whitman has published a 3rd edition of the Crum-Ungar-Oxman book, Carson City Silver Dollars: Featuring Coins of the GSA Hoard. New this year is...
Whitman has issued a pared-down, large format, "bookzine" edition of the Guide Book of United States Coins by Yeoman and Bressett. It is intended...
Whitman released a 2014 edition of the classic handbook on US currency, A Guide Book of United States Paper Money by Arthur L. and Ira S....
My wife was born in 1955 and finding circulated Franklins for her was always hard.* But I found this great Unc 1955 for her. I must have compared...
I am way outside my interest area with this, but a co-worker asked me to look at the coins he inherited when his father passed away; and it was...
The E-Sylum weekly email carried a report about the Online Database of Coinage of the Roman Empire: OCRE, which apparently does not turn stringy...
OK, wheat is easy. The US Barber series has wheat, corn, and tobacco, as symbolic of the three crops important to the sections of the nation....
Pictures of a Distant Country: Seeing America Through Old Paper Money by Richard Doty (Whitman, 2013, 296 pages, $24.95) is a "coffee table" book...
When coins first carried expressly political messages may not be clear, but the roots are ancient, certainly the taproots are. Were the coins of...
Few people except numismatists know him to have served for 30 years as Warden and Master of the British Royal Mint. In the 1690s, much of the...
From left to right (most recent to oldest): 5 Francs. 1875-A (Paris). Y 52.1 - 25 grams 0.900 fine (0.7234 oz AGW). Augustin Dupres's allegorical...
How much would you pay for a dollar bill with 23513347 for the serial number? ( 2.35133469 is the cube root of 13. You don't find that...
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