Why did we once have a 20-cent piece? We can thank one U.S. Senator for that.
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coins
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Maria Theresa never ruled the Holy Roman Empire, but she gave us a beautiful coin, and one of the most popular trade dollars ever.
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It’s hard to believe that only one Supreme Court justice (who wasn’t previously President) has ever been on a government-issued coin.
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This is the coin that made me want to become a numismatist. Thanks mom!
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The 1982 George Washington Half Dollar: Commemorative Coins Make a Comeback
As the 1980s began, commemorative coins were deader than disco, Francisco Franco and The Eagles. But then George Washington’s 250th birthday changed everything.
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Henry Clay may have failed to win the Presidency on five different occasions, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t on a lot of tokens.
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Sometimes, coins that were unpopular and widely denigrated in their day end up being vindicated by later generations.
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The ANA World’s Fair of Money was intense. And lots of fun!
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Nixon in New York will be released on paperback in the fall. As such, here’s a post about my Richard Nixon coin.
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Napoleon Bonaparte sure is on a lot of coins and tokens. That’s what happens when you conquer or subjugate most of Europe.
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The things we do for a free vacation.
Don’t buy coins from China – because they’re probably fake.
One thing I’ve learned is that federal politicians have a lot of power when it comes to coinage. Case in point: Sen. Jim McClure.
I’ve talked about the coins I didn’t buy at the ANA World’s Fair of Money. So what about the ones I did buy?
As mentioned in Part I, Napoleon Bonaparte was on plenty of his empire’s official coinage. That was also true of unofficial ones.