I am fascinated by books written by long-ago explorers and I recently read the 1925 book My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin...
The book Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (published 2011) is about the three British...
Photobucket’s experiment with being a $399.99 premium service is over, and so too is the tenure of the CEO who led it. The Denver-based photo...
Doctor Thomas Dooley was a celebrity when I was in junior high school in the early 1960's. There was a curious incident where I filled out a...
I received this 1982-D Lincoln cent in change a couple of days ago. I save the copper Lincoln cents and know that in 1982 the US mints made both...
This is the first "love token" that I have found in a movie. Love Tokens are coins which have engravings applied to one side. They were popular...
The 1958 Twentieth Century Fox film "The Long Hot Summer" has a Mississippi man who thinks that he has found a Confederate treasure but discovers...
Police in Massachusetts have arrested a man in connection with a burglary at New England Patriots player Rob Gronkowski's home while he was at the...
Two coin rolls appear in an American film along with a wrapped bundle of prop paper money. [IMG] Coin rolls and paper money in suitcase (coin...
Yes, another military commemorative coin set is coming! In 2019, the United States Mint will produce and sell commemorative coins for the 100th...
Last evening I went to the local store and saw a man at the Coinstar machine. He had a box of pennies (8"x3"x3") and was feeding them into the...
A rather twisted story of a top rated 1940's radio program, a very successful 1946 motion picture, and the Egyptian Magic Coin. [IMG] Helen Trent...
[IMG] The San Francisco Mint on Hermann Street A review on a popular tourist internet site: The mint currently makes proof coins and coin sets....
[IMG] Austria 50 Schillings 1964 - Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria One of the first world coins I bought from the Vienna Mint. Post yours. :)
The 1965 television program "Death Valley Days" episode "Raid on the San Francisco Mint" is an interesting San Francisco numismatic story. "Death...
My main numismatic interests are non-US coins and some types of medals and tokens. I do browse the United States coin forums and now and then...
Although the subject of the article is the current US defense chief, it mentions handout coins several times. There is no mention of the term...
The 1939 film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" features a prop coin shown mostly from it's side which took some time to identify. The film is about...
The 2017 Universal Pictures film "A Dog's Purpose", is a fantasy film about a dog who is reincarnated several times with different human owners....
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