One of the YNs at my local club asked me to write this and given a presentation on the Lincoln cent. Here it is. I have not been an active Lincoln...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The obverse reads, Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C “Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius noble caesar” The reverse reads,...
The types of early silver dollars offer opportunities and frustrations for type collectors. The opportunities lie in the fact none of the types...
Some one just bid $4,850 for this coin on eBay. It attracted 45 bids. This coin has been extensively re-engraved. The detail on Ms. Liberty's eye...
[ATTACH] William the Conqueor penny, Spink 1257 William the Conqueror issued nice coins for the medieval period after he seized England in 1066....
When I was a coin dealer, collectors often asked me, “Are there any anti-slavery Civil War tokens?” The answer is yes, but the number of varieties...
It was the blot on the American Revolution. It was the contradiction that undermined Thomas Jefferson’s soaring human rights rhetoric in the...
Have you ever been to a party where the host was dividing up a cake or a pie, and you felt that you had been short changed on the size of the...
The Spanish Milled Dollar or eight reales are called “pieces of eight.” Sometimes they really were made into to pieces of eight, which was a way...
Collector’s Note: The 1936 Proof set has been at the fringes of my collecting radar since the mid-1960s. I became interested in Proof sets in 1964...
The Three Dollar Gold Piece was produced and issued for many years, from 1854 until 1889, but the it was never popular. The U.S. Mint System only...
Today political commentators talk about candidates and those in office who are constantly saying and doing things that “appeal to their base.” It...
Last week one of our members was pleased to announce that he had just joined that select group of collectors who have a Julius Caesar portrait...
These three coins are among the three most difficult to find U.S. type coins. The mintages were very low, and many coins were melted because they...
When James Ruddy was selecting the coins for his Photograde book of United States coins, he stated that the hardest coins for him to find were the...
I have admired the Draped Bust design for almost as long as I have been a collector. One of my first big coin buys after I got my first job out of...
I have had this one for a number of years. It seems to me that grading standards have changed. What do you think NGC called this one. [ATTACH]...
I have been using the "Wild Winds" site with great success to attribute my Roman imperial coins. I was surprised to read this about the emperor...
Hardicanute (ruled 1040 to 1042) was the last Viking king to rule England. As you wiil see from my "bullet book" notes, he was not morned when he...
[ATTACH] I was born and raised in Delaware, and for part of my collecting life I have tried to find tokens, medals and paper money that have a...
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