I have been slowly building a type set of Confederate notes. I will never finish it because the first four notes that the Confederate Government...
I think I have the answer. When I was young collector in 1960s, finding Lincoln Cent dated from 1909 to 1920 in circulation was sort of exciting....
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] That's right. The total business strike mintage for the 1880 gold dollar was 1,600 pieces plus 36 Proofs. This has long made...
I first saw this 1799 dollar in 1979. I had just joined a local club in the Boston area, and an older gentleman brought it to a meeting. I told...
There was a question concerning a copy of the Continential Dollar in the "What's it worth?" forum. Since there was some confusion over the...
I wrote this article for my local club a couple of years ago. Since I don't know what to do with it from there, I'll post in here in three parts....
I have been fascinated by the early half dimes since I was in high school. The trouble is they have always been expensive, and there was no way I...
One of the first U.S. gold coins that I can remember seeing was an 1853-D gold dollar. My mother’s cleaning lady had four gold dollars that were...
Henry D. Higgins was from Mishawaka, Indianan. He was a jeweler and an optometrist who also made barometers for farmers who needed to know...
This two coins have an interesting history. During the period prior to the Constitution when the national government operated under the Articles...
A Chronicle of the Revolutionary War in Medals ... The Comitia Americana (American Congress) Series is a group of 13 medals that honored heroes...
By the mid 1850s, the U.S. was looking for an alternative to the large cent. The “big pennies” had never been popular and had not circulated well...
Author’s Note: Here is part of an article that I wrote for my local club’s newsletter. It runs a bit long for this forum, but let’s see how the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] After giving a presentation about this piece some time ago, I thought I most post it here since the facts are still fresh on my...
Since I have been posting comments about Franklin Pierce, I thought that you might be interested see a few of the campaign pieces for man most...
One game that professional and amateur historians like to play is rate the presidents. Abraham Lincoln gets the top spot in many polls, but the...
Here is a story that is well known to collectors. In 1883 the mint replaced the Shield Nickel with the Liberty Nickel. The trouble was the first...
Here are two more coins that go together, the Louisiana Purchase commemorative gold dollars. These pieces were sold during the Louisiana Purchase...
All of the English coins that were issued prior to the reign of Queen Elizabeth were hammer struck. During Elizabeth's reign Frenchman, Eloye...
In the earlier years of our nation, cents and nickels were much more important than they are today. The main reason for that was that they...
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