This 1798 large cent is an NC-1, a rare coin with a fairly small number of known examples. This piece piece cropped up on a Boston bid wall in a...
During times of stress, and sometimes during of poor management, nations have resorted to issuing fiat paper money to pay their bills. Modern...
Back in 1995, the mint issued some of the Civil War commemorative coin sets in a modern version of the "Union case." The top and bottom of the box...
From the time of its birth in Montgomery, Alabama until its death at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, The Confederate States of America ran on...
At the end of the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant was one of the North's leading heroes second only to Abraham Lincoln. Grant had emerged from...
Recently @Eduard posted pictures of a very nice group of early U.S. dimes. I mentioned that the 1797, 16 star dime had hash marks under the stars....
As the Major League Baseball owners and players debate whether or not there will be a season, I thought it would be appropriate to look and one of...
[ATTACH] 1957 – 1,247,952 sets issued In prior years the number of Proof sets that the mint sold had been limited “to capacity.” This led...
The Proof sets from 1950 to 1964 represent the last of a by-gone era in the collector – mint relationship. During those years the mint supplied...
Whenever amateur and professional historians think of the really bad Roman emperors, Caligula and Nero immediately come to mind with a possible...
Earlier in the week, I mentioned that I had a British gold coin coming to me in the mail. Here it is, a James I Half-Laurel. This coin had a...
One of the interesting parts of the Tower of London for me was the old mint building. I pretty much had the run of the place because I seemed to...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I bought this gold angel a few years ago. I noted immediately that it had a crease, which is most visible on the obverse at...
In 1928, Al Smith, “the happy warrior,” finally got to run for president. It had not been an easy road. He had been a candidate for the Democratic...
One of the great things about collecting political pieces is that many of them have interesting stories surrounding them. Unlike a date and mint...
Here is another article from the archives. I wrote this in 2014. I've been working on a very general collection of English coinage. My goal has...
It's Saturday and the lots I won in a recent auction are taking longer than I had hoped to arrive. When you are old and in lock-down, you look...
[ATTACH] It took me about a year to find one of these medals that I liked. Finding one is not that hard, if you know the token and medal dealers,...
One January 20, 2021 a President of the United States will be inaugurated. We don't know who yet, but I thought that it might be interesting to...
Usually when I post pictures, the upload responds with only the word names for the photo files. Now and then I get thumbnail photos which are so...
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