Author Archive : Len B.

Image courtesy of Britannica.com Numismatics has long been called the “Hobby of Kings,” and with good reason. People have been collecting coins for thousands of years. But throughout most of history, it was a

Few periods in history spark the imagination like the American Old West. It was an epic era of lonesome cowboys and proud Native Americans… of daring outlaws and famous lawmen… a time when news

As we covered in Part 1 of this series, early America suffered from a coinage crisis – there simply weren’t enough British coins in the colonies to go around. So colonists used anything they

Thomas Jefferson is one of America’s most recognized founding fathers – and rightly so. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. He served as our nation’s first secretary of state and