This applies to everyone: http://www.michigancoinclub.org/ethics.html We, the members of the Michigan State Numismatic Society, pledge ourselves...
This is a few years old now. I saw it go by on some technology news forum or other and bought a couple for my wife and me. It is from LaCie and...
I searched back through the topics for "Counterstamp" and read the most recent threads through. Basically, coins were counterstamped for many...
I bought this for $5 at the local Goodwill computer store. (They also have a museum in back with an autographed Dell, a Cray, a PDP-8, a Data...
I nominate the National Bank Notes of the First Charter.
According to the Keweenaw Historical Society: "One of the most noteworthy historical sites in Keweenaw County is Central, or Central Mine, a...
Ikaros and I fell into this about a decade ago. I forgot all about it, living in this town or that, but here in Austin, I saw the Sovereign Bank....
The plethora of adverting exonumia has no easy taxonomy.The KrauseStandard Catalog of United States Tokens 1790-1900 by Russell Rulau assigns them...
They build a two-story maze in a convention hall for GenCon in Indianpolis. It works like a D&D adventure. They use tokens to keep track of...
This large format, lavishly illustrated book recounts the Old and New Testaments, placing them in their historical contexts, and supporting the...
Halloween 2010 Ann Arbor: [ATTACH] I gave out coins and banknotes to the kids and stock certificates to any adult dressed up. Halloween 2001:...
Today, October 22, 2013, George Fuld, D.Sc., was laid to his final rest. He passed on October 19. Fuld is best known for his work as a researcher...
It is a medieval penny (denier) from the County of Blois in modern France. I do not own the coin. I found the image while buying coins from...
I have two of these, both off-center. This is the better example: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Marcus Porcius Cato was one of the republicans who resisted...
(This is based on an article that I wrote in 2004 for The Celator.) Collectors of ancient Greek coins know the silver-plated (“fouree” or...
Your local library is your gateway to a world of resources. Too often, collectors go to their local library and say that they have nothing, maybe...
This morning's CNN Tech Gallery. The NASA Curiosity Rover uses this for calibration. (I should have known it was posted here at least twice...
Last year, the Capital City Coin Club of Austin, Texas, held a "Quiz Bowl." These are some of the questions. Categories are: Feels like the...
You can find a couple of different web presentations on this theme. I do not have what I consider the two keys, Niels Bohr and Benjamin Franklin....
Who does not like the idea of space travel? Here are some numismatic items. This medal was struck from material that included the recovered...
Separate names with a comma.
