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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Boo!
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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Did you miss these SemiQ coins?
Thomas Paine was an underpaid tax collector protesting low wages before Parliament. Benjamin Franklin was Pennsylvania’s colonial envoy objecting to the levy of taxes without representation in the London legislature. Their subsequent friendship changed...
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