Cuban ABC Peso. First the coin: Carries the Cuban Coat of Arms (el Escudo Cubano) on the obverse. Minted 1934 through 1939. Only Cuban...
In answer to your question, it may surprise you to learn that, even though the Philippines (Philipinas) was under United States sovereignty, some...
Did you know that if you had visited the Turkish Mint in 2004 or sooner, you were allowed to strike a 1,000,000 lira coin dated that year and keep...
Their was panic in the Phillipines in 1942. The Japanese were coming! General Douglas MacArthur and the Americans were leaving! A discussion was...
English financier Sir Thomas Gresham, way back in the 15th century, noticed the relationship of intrinsic values of circulating coinage to the...
Hand you just about any coin and you can tell you which side is heads (the obverse) and which side is tails (the reverse), but what about the...
On August 15, 1947 India was granted it's independence. This created a problem for the Royal Canadian Mint. The dies for the 1948 coinage without...
The old-time comedians used to start out their session with, "A funny thing happened on the way..." Well a funny thing happened at the three...
You probably know the Denver Mint began producing coins in 1906. You, also, probably know, the coins the mint struck that year were the dime,...
Most of you know James B. Longacre designed the Indian Head Cent and a lot of you know nothing on the coin denoted he was the designer of the coin...
You know our mint struck silver 5-cent coins in the latter part of 1942 through 1945 because of the military demand for nickel. Do you know...
Who is James Earle Fraser? You're right! He's the designer of the Indian Head obverse/Bison reverse (Buffalo) nickel. His initial "F" is on the...
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