The cover calls this “The book that belongs in every collector’s safe deposit box” and they are right. If you bought a previous edition, you...
The Red Book is the standard reference today, but it was preceded by The Blue Book. Ken Bressett was first listed on the cover in 1957 but had...
The June 4-6, 2021, Texas Numismatic Association annual show and convention was a success for all. Every dealer I talked felt that the market...
The turnout was strong though not all of the available tables were sold (30 out of 40). Still, it was clear that people were out to buy. [ATTACH]...
Austin, Texas, stalwart Bryan Jones finally hosted a show and at a new venue. He sold 30 of his 40 tables. I bought one for the next show in July....
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...
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