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2019-P Native American Dollar – Mary Golda Ross : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Each year since 2009, the United States Mint has unveiled a new reverse design for...
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Liberty Seated Dime, Obverse Legend (1860-1891) : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Thirteen stars were added to the obverse of the Liberty Seated Dime in 1838 to satisfy the interests of those who...
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Classic Head Cent, 1808-1814 | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Irish immigrant Robert Patterson was a schoolmaster, a shopkeeper, and a mathematician, the teacher of...
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By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC), and the Dark Side Group ......   After the submission of my 50th exclusive CoinWeek article on counterfeits,...
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1794 Liberty Cap Cent : A Collector’s Guide

1794 Liberty Cap cent production was far more successful than the United States Mint's inaugural-year of cent production had been. The Mint settled on...

1793 Liberty Cap Cent : A Collector’s Guide

The third cent design issued in 1793, engraver Joseph Wright's Liberty Cap cent was a major improvement over the designs produced by the United...

Liberty Cap Cent, 1793-1796 | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The cent, America's longest serving coin, debuted in 1793. Struck on blanks of English import,...

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Sales volume for the 1991 American Silver Eagle was sharply higher than for issues from the three preceding years, with the United States Mint...

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The United States Mint in Denver struck 20,010,000 Lincoln Wheat cents dated 1938. This mintage is the median for all Denver issues in that...

Register of the Treasury – Signatures on US Paper Money

The Register of the Treasury is a former office of the United States Treasury Department. The position was instituted in 1861 and lasted until...

Calcoin News – A Notable Club Coin Publication With a Long History

Calcoin News was the official publication of the California State Numismatic Association (CSNA), and was published continuously from 1947 to 2003. The publication originally launched...

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“Don’t accept any wooden nickels” is a colloquial expression meaning “Don’t get tricked” or “Don’t let yourself get fooled.” Wooden nickels were a popular advertising...

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Annie Jump Cannon : The Astronomer Honored on the Dollar

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