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...
My wife thought that it would be 50 -50 as to whether the show would be held. Now it's official. It's been canceled. I never thought that I would...
Here are two old gold coins, from England and the United States, the guinea and the half eagle. Both coins have a similar size and had similar...
I took the longest drive I've made in two and a half months on Thursday. My wife and I drove 75 miles each way to take treats and necessities to...
When I was a coin dealer, customers occasionally asked me if there were any pro South Civil War tokens. The answer to that question is yes, but...
Recent increases in postage rates remind me of a time in the 19th century when the government decreased the postage rate and issued a new coin to...
This essay is bit long, but I decided to post it any way. These medals have been an interest of mine for a while, but it was hard to find out what...
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