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I love early commemorative U.S. coins. These are some of my favorites and the stories behind them.

In honor of the premiere of Starz’s Watergate drama “Gaslit,” please enjoy an excerpt from “Nixon in New York” about John Mitchell.

Why doesn’t Martin Luther King, Jr., have a U.S. Mint-issued coin honoring his life and commemorating his legacy?

Spoiler alert: Coins from Taiwan often have either Chiang Kai-shek’s or Sun Yat-sen’s faces on them.

Error coins can be very valuable — kind of like error baseball cards.

A look at the much-maligned Barber Coins. Were they really so bad?

I’ve recently gotten into collecting George Washington colonial coins. Here are some of the ones in my collection.

This two-headed silver round really captures the craziness and uncertainty in the weeks following the 2000 Presidential Election.

Looks like we’re Morgan and Peace Dollars are making a comeback.

There are no shortage of myths when it comes to the Confederate States of America. It’s the same when it comes to Confederate coinage.