I bought a dozen of them from Liberty Coins to give as Christmas presents. I was a little taken aback by the lack of information in the flips....
I received this press release yesterday, "embargoed" until today. Small Business Investors, Hobbyists Sue Minnesota for Criminalizing Their...
I never cared much for genealogy and never had many special ties to "the old country." And in my case, that was two different old countries....
Sorry... no coin... In fact, that is my question because I need your help. I am refereeing a journal article for another discipline entirely, but...
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As the vice president of the Austin Astronomical Society, I get to invite speakers. With Covid and Zoom, we stopped handing over certificates of...
Sure, it is hard enough to avoid them. What is Rome if not the empire; and the empire depended on the military at a level exceding that almost...
Reading background based on @DonnaML's entry on the coins of Trajan Decius, I found an entry from the University of Michgian Classics Department....
Francoise Velde is an economist with the Federal Reserve of Chicago. Unlike Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and the other...
I am not a big collector, but I am a writer; and I have some world banknotes with authors and related subjects. (Bulgaria and Iceland had printing...
In 10 days, it will reach maximum apparent brightness, though only about a quarter of it is lit up by the Sun. It is hard to miss in the west in...
IN THE YEAR OF THE PLAGUE (It is known that some ancient Roman coins have medical instruments on them. My only image of a microscope on a coin is...
In the late 19th century and early 20th, once the germ theory of disease was accepted, hotels would wash your money for you. When the incuse...
In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking and Religion by William Bierly, Whitman Publishing, 2019, 336 pages, $29.95. This book...
My other hobby is astronomy. Many hobbyists call beginner telescopes "hobby killers." They feel that the 3-inch refractor or 4-inch reflector is...
The Christmas Star has been debated on many levels. The International Planetarium Society website (ww.ips-planetarium.org) lists over 100...
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was more than the most brilliant man of his time. He was the first modern scientist. He discovered the physics and...
These are not even non-circulating legal tender, just trinkets and trifles. Really, it's fine, I suppose. Let the markets decide what sells, and...
According to Geraldine Chimirri-Russell curator emerita for the Nickle Art Museum of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, certain series...
From: Numismatic Crime Information Center <doug@numismaticcrimes.ccsend.com> on behalf of Numismatic Crime Information Center...
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