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Going bananas for the Chinese Lunar Year of the Monkey – 2016


It’s time to ring in the new year – again! That’s right… although the modern Gregorian calendar flips the year every January 1, the lunar-solar Chinese calendar was set according to lunar phases, solar...
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Love is in the air… coins that show your romantic side


They’re four little letters, but they can make your mind soar, your heart race, your palms sweat and your toes tingle. L-O-V-E. I can’t think of any other emotion that can have such a...
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Loonies, Toonies & Maple Leafs… Why Canada’s coins captivate!


Spanning 3,987 miles (5,525 if you include Alaska) the U.S. – Canadian border is one of the longest in the world. In the early ’90s, I lived near it for a few years. My...
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Kennedy Half Dollars share top popularity in poll!


In a recent 2016 poll by Whitman Publishing asking which coins are most interesting to newer collectors, Kennedy half dollars tied classic Morgan silver dollars with 23% of the votes cast! Whitman, the publisher...
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