From Trailing the Giant Panda by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, published in 1929 Here we stopped to arrange our money transfers. This...
I watched the Netflix film "Coin Heist" about a week ago and am debating whether to add it to my "Coins in Movies" website. Most of the films on...
While waiting to see the Netflix film "Coin Heist" that everyone is raving about and watching the rain fall, and it being Elvis' birthday, I had...
China had a complicated monetary system in the 1920's and here is a description of how it functioned in the remote province of Kansu (Gansu)....
The Father Flanagan Omaha Boys Town gets a clad half-dollar, a silver dollar, and a five-dollar gold piece and the Lions Club International gets a...
The Monroe Doctrine Commemorative 1923 Half Dollar: [IMG] United States Half Dollar 1923-S - Monroe Doctrine Commemorative Specs: Silver, 30mm,...
November 20, 1818, a date which will live not in infamy but in historical trivia. Monterey, California holds the dubious distinction of being the...
I took this photograph at my place near San Francisco recently. [IMG] A pair of owls in a tree Pine cones, too. The bird looked familiar,...
Rhodesia was briefly an independent state in southern Africa from 1964 to 1979. It had previously been known as Southern Rhodesia, a British...
[IMG] Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem gold Bezant Specs: 20mm, 3.90gm, struck AD 1148-1187 In 1099 when the Pope launched the Crusades, gold coins...
This Egyptian coin commemorates the third anniversary of the revolution which ousted the infamous King Farouk. [IMG] Egypt Pound 1955 - Third...
The California Gold Rush was a major event in the state's history and early in the 20th century San Francisco's Irvine & Jachens medal company and...
This tiny gold coin is possibly the smallest modern machine-struck coin ever made. [IMG] Guatemala 4 Reales 1860 Obverse: Rafael Carrera facing...
Today, the US Court of Appeals Third Circuit decided in favor of the US Government in the long-running Langbord-Switt 1933 Double Eagle case. The...
I live in California and today I walked by the market CoinStar machine and saw a shiny coin. [IMG] Cuba 10 Centavos 2013 As we all know, Ebay...
I became interested in the 1953 Universal-International color film "City Beneath the Sea" after I saw the title in an article about the John J....
I received this interesting item recently, it is a San Francisco Schools Samuel Bridge medal in bronze: [IMG] Samuel Bridge Medal - Bronze The...
I have had this little item since the 1960's: [IMG] Egypt 50 Piastres 1930 (AH 1349) Gold, 20mm, 4.25gm, Krause World Coins KM-353 About the size...
I've seen the face before but where? [IMG] New Orleans Mardi Gras token :)
From television station KTVU News: (Richmond is located near Oakland and San Francisco, California) A 94-year-old woman was attacked in her...
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