Coin Collecting Lets You Hold History in Your Hands
There’s something quietly powerful about holding a coin and realizing it once moved through the same world as people who shaped history. The metal feels cool in your palm. The surface catches the light...
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Let’s Assay the Way!
We were in deep currency chaos back in 1790: war debt, foreign coins, a surplus of Revolutionary dollars “not worth a Continental”, plus a Constitutional prohibition against states issuing their own money. As...
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Do you believe in Ghost Coins?
Something wicked this way comes… and it looks like ghost coins. Spoken about in whispers, these coins have become something of a legend in numismatic circles. And what better way to celebrate the spookiest...
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245 Years Later: Remembering the British Surrender at Yorktown and the Birth of a Nation
This year, the focus has been on the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence. But this month also marks another important anniversary in the nation’s founding – the British surrender at Yorktown. On October 19,...
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