National Military Appreciation Month is celebrated in May, honoring the current service members as well as veterans. Congress designated the month-long observance in 1999, choosing May since it already contained Memorial Day and...
An interesting article with background on Canadian silver dollars appeared in the October 1966 issue of Coins magazine. “To a numismatist, Canadian commemorative dollar history presents a date easy to remember: 1935,” wrote Starr...
It’s tough to find a series of United States coins in which there is some silver, but which also have some good prices nestled in among the greater bunch. What we call classic United States silver seems tightly entwined with the volatile jumps that...
For the most part, in numismatic publications, the story of nineteenth-century United States half dollars has rarely been told as more than a collectible. However, the historical record of the half dollar is much more, suggesting an...