I have collected 19th century presidential campaign tokens for many years. Over that time, most all of the pieces that I have collected look like...
The 25th Amendment to the constitution was passed in 1967. It fixed a hole in the constitution which allowed the vice presidency to become vacant...
Here are two piece for my "one cent per date set." The 1804 is a classic rarity. It's more common than the 1799, but as a date it's the second...
1796 is one of the very cool dates among early U.S. coins. It was the only year in which it is possible to collect a year set of coins in all 10...
In 1797 and again in 1804, the British issued an emergincy issue of silver coins that converted from another country to English with a...
It seems that Trump does not have officicial inaugural medal. In the past the medals have been used as fund raisers for the inaugural events, but...
P.T. Barnum made a forture with "humbugs." He was the most flamboyant American showman of the 19th century. He became famous for Barnium's museum...
I purchased this note at the FUN show. It has a denomination of 12 1/2 cents or a "bit." That might seem like odd amount today, but in 19th...
This year cents were the main items on my shopping list. I am trying to build a date set of cents from 1793 to 2025. The year 1856 is covered in...
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Showing a photograph of a presidential candidate on a button is a very common practice today. The buttons that we regard as “modern” were patented...
I have been collecting the political Hard Times tokens for many years. I once collected the merchant pieces but lost interest in them. According...
I have been gradually forming a year set of cents from 1793 to date. The "biggest bear of all" is the 1799 cent. This coin started to become...
I am working on a set of Indian Cents. I collected a set when I was in high school, so you might say that I am having a "second childhood" in my...
Emil Segal was a fairly prolific Civil War die and token issuer. Emil and his three brothers immigrated from Germany before the Civil War. His...
[ATTACH] I was a dealer for about 16 years. One of my "side specialties" was Civil War tokens. I always had about 500 of them in stock. I...
On Janury 20, 2025, we will inaugurate a new president. The numismatic part of the ceremoney will be an addition to a series of official...
I recently purchased this As of Nero, but I have been able to find it the Sear book or ever Wildwinds. Does anyone known anything about it?...
I purchased this piece at the Tampa Coin show which was held this week. The attendance had to be disappointing for the promoters, but it was a...
Recently I purchased and posted pictures of a 1925 official Calvin Coolidge inaugural medal. There are not a lot of these pieces around or offered...
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