Think about it: when was the last time anyone handed you a U.S. Sacagawea $1 dollar coin in change? Or, before that, a Susan B. Anthony or one of the new Presidential series $1 coins? If you can actually reply with an instance then you are a rare person indeed. The fact is, U.S. dollar ...
Idaho is a beautiful place where many famous people are from. These are fifteen famous people who are from the beautiful state called Idaho. This is a new series about famous people who were born or from particular states. The part of the series will be famous people from Idaho. These are not all the ...
In case you didn’t know it, there is no silver in the general circulation Eisenhower dollar coins of 1971-78, nor the new Presidential $1 coins, or their small sized predecessors, the 2000-to-date Sacagawea ‘golden dollars,’ or the 1979-81 Susan B. Anthony dollar coins, which were resumed for a single year in 1999. I hasten to ...
The Sacagawea Dollar coin is one of those coins that consumers shy away from spending. There are a lot of reasons for that and the most valid reason is because they really are just too heavy and cumbersome to even think about having them in our pocket or purse. Afterall, what is more convenient at ...
What are some good gifts for a coin collector, also called a numismatist? Reportedly, some very famous people have been into coin collecting: Tony Blair, Buddy Ebsen, John Quincy Adams, Nicole Kidman, Jonathan Rhys-Davies, and “Coin King” Louis Eliasberg; but many numismatists keep their coin collecting to themselves, a secret passion for private enjoyment. But ...
Mary Bickerson has admired President Kennedy for as long as she can remember. Like millions of other people, not just in the United States but throughout the world, she became caught up in the Camelot atmosphere of the young President, his attractive wife and their young children. During the spate of television documentaries last November ...
In college, my friend Kim and I were resident advisors, which meant that we stayed in the dorms after all the other students left. An enterprising pair, we ambitiously sorted through the junk left behind, including lots of spare change. Pennies were neglected in the back of drawers, dimes were swept into corners with gum ...