Everybody likes to buy super coins, but sometimes the prices get to be too high. Here is my Draped Bust Large cent for my type set. [ATTACH]...
Felix Schlag won the contest in a field of 390 entries for the Jefferson Nickel design. The strange thing is, the mint changed the design almost...
I have had this piece for a very long time and have long suspected that it is a counterfeit because of the weakness on the reverse. Note that a...
The Napoleonic Wars (mid 1790s until 1815) caused a great monetary upheaval in England. During the war, much of the regular coinage was hoarded,...
I just received the three piece Negro Leagues Baseball set. I was very disappointed. In the old days, these sets came in a nice velvet covered...
Here is the second piece I acquired from the DeWitt sale, a John Frémont ferrotype. A ferrotype features an actual photograph of the candidate....
I received my two purchases from the DeWitt political sale today. I was hoping to buy more, but the prices were so strong, I simply could not...
Heritage auctions had its DeWitt sale of political items this week. The prices realized were "aggressive" to the least. Many items went for way...
I remember hearing a "Copperhead" described as the head cut out from a "copper penny" during one the chapters in the award winning Ken Burns...
I was looking this item which appeared in Davisson's action, which closed yesterday. It is a AR hardi d'argent of Edward the Black Prince who was...
These coins were issued by the Bank of England on an emergency basis during the Napoleonic Wars. The series started with the small counter mark in...
There was a time, during the Napoleonic Wars, when the British Government could not supply enough coins to its domestic economy. In their place,...
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