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Collecting National Bank Notes

January 28, 2019 0 Comments
Collecting National Bank Notes

Collecting bank notes is a natural companion to collecting coins, and many collections contain both. In the past people put their trust in hard coins of precious metals, but as banking developed the idea of issuing a piece of paper, which the bank would turn back into coins on request, grew. Before the Civil War […]

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US Mint Apollo 50th Anniversary Release

January 21, 2019 0 Comments
US Mint Apollo 50th Anniversary Release

50 years after the actual launch, the US Mint is set for a launching of its own. January 24, 2019 is the big day for the launch of the Mint’s commemorative set for the epoch-making first man on the moon Apollo 11 Mission. Older collectors will surely remember exactly where they were when we all […]

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Apollo 50th Anniversary Two-nation Coin Set

January 14, 2019 0 Comments
Apollo 50th Anniversary Two-nation Coin Set

July 20, 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the historic first landing of a man on the moon in 1969. Older people will almost certainly remember exactly where they were, watching on a tiny TV set the flickering, blurry pictures sent from the moon, and hearing John Armstrong say, “One small step for man, on […]

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What Coins Should I Collect?

January 7, 2019 0 Comments
What Coins Should I Collect?

In recent weeks we have been talking about coin collecting itself, rather than particular coins, and since there is so much to say on this topic, we are continuing the theme this week, with some answers to the basic question of new collectors, “So I want to collect coins, where do I start?” The simplest […]

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