Author Archive : Helen P.

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

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

What a year was 1986! Halley’s Comet returned for the first time since 1910. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH had its first ceremony, inducting Elvis Presley and Ray Charles,

Sitting around the Littleton Coin writers’ table, we thought a topic that might be a fun read for new collectors are recognizable consumer products that came from the innovations celebrated so far on U.S.