Very interesting. These early Proofs, before there were very many U.S. collectors, are quite exciting. The trouble is when it comes time to sell...
I didn’t write an article about this one, so I will just pose a picture. James Earl Frazer, of Buffalo Nickel fame, designed this handsome piece....
Here is what got me started on this collection. It was a "youth set" for the 50th anniversary of World War II. Sometimes the adults can learn...
Greetings, fellow prisoners! Today is April 104th. In normal terms that would be April 26, but since this month is 120 days long, adjustments are...
Maybe for most, but not for me. I have a small Civil War token collection of perhaps a couple hundred pieces. The big collections have 5,500 +...
Backing money with precious metal is not an effective strategy. All it can do is put a limit on the amount of money can be in circulation. That...
It's the rounded bust. The 1859 Indian Cent has the pointed bust, but since they all do, it doesn't matter. Here is an 1859 Indian. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It has some nice album toning after a dip long ago. It's what the late Boston coin dealer, Don Romano, called "original now." There is nothing...
I have collected a few date and mint mark sets in my time, but by in large I have become a very diverse collector. Some people say I have no...
[ATTACH] The recent discussion about the 1858 half dime with a counterstamp has inspired me to write about one of the few counterstamped...
If it were real, in Mint State it would be worth a 6 figure number. How many people do you know give away coins worth hundreds of thousands of...
For most collectors, counterstamps are damage. For a few, they are great if you can find out something about the company that put it there.
Not as far as I’m concerned. It looks like junk to me.
And that went beyond where the radical Republicans wanted him to do. Lincoln had it right with your former enemies, “Let ‘em up easy.” Or you...
By 1864 many in the North had become war weary and were ready to make peace with the Confederacy. Lincoln was convinced as late as August before...
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Harden County, Kentucky. Lincoln once said that his childhood could be condensed into one...
Yes, the third one is U.S. Grant. In 1865 he was at the height of his political popularity. Lincoln was dead, and President Andrew Johnson was as...
As I have said many times, if I had a 1913 Liberty Nickel, I'd sell it and buy some real coins. The '13 nickel is one of my least favorite coins.
The Red Book lists the designer as Scot or Reich. John Wright says Scot designed the Matron Head in The Cent Book on page 1.
[ATTACH] Here is a note that the Western & Atlantic Railroad issued during the Civil War. The most famous episode occurred when a group of Union...
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