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Coins & Paper Money

Paper Money that will really tickle your “Fancy!”

Awhile back, we wrote to you about the different issues of paper money, and mentioned the different types of serial numbers that some collectors seek out. Known as “fancy” notes for their intriguing number

The long, unsuccessful saga of America’s neglected $1 coins!

Ever wonder why you don’t see $1 coins in circulation? After all, the dollar is our country’s basic monetary unit. And $1 coins have been struck during most years from 1794 to the present.

School custodian makes last great find of the 20th Century – The 1995 Doubled Die Obverse Lincoln Cent

As Felix Dausilio, a school custodian and Connecticut collector, searched the two rolls of Lincoln cents he purchased, he had little idea that the coin he’d find would ignite a collecting frenzy. Dausilio didn’t

The “Fort Knox of Silver” is now the newest U.S. Mint

You probably know there are U.S. Mints in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco. But you may not know that a fourth and newest U.S. Mint is located in West Point, NY (site of the