Coin Collecting is No Joke… Parts III and IV Collecting Coins with Jeff Figler by Jeff Figler The 1799 Draped Bust cent is a popular coin among coin collectors. Few of these large cents were saved from the original mintage…
Ken’s Korner: When is a nickel worth $3 million? News & Views From the World of Antiques & Collectibles By Ken Hall When it’s a rare, century-old nickel sold at auction through Heritage Galleries of Dallas, that’s when. The 1913…
Coin Collecting is No Joke… Parts I and II Collecting Coins with Jeff Figler by Jeff Figler Yes, coins. Those small little things that people carry around with them or store them in safe places. As with some other types…
Grading Coins by Photographs – 2nd Edition By: Q. David Bowers Publisher: Whitman Publishing, LLC Pages: 384 [amazon_link id=”0794836879″ target=”_blank” ]Price: Paperback $19.95[/amazon_link] In the best-selling [amazon_link id=”0794836879″ target=”_blank” ]Grading Coins by Photographs[/amazon_link], Q. David Bowers has crafted a unique…
Ken’s Korner: Divers find treasure from sunken galleon – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – June 2006 Divers off Key West, Fla., surfaced with two gold bars and 15 silver coins — treasures that had been buried under the…
Ken’s Korner: British Museum pays $630,000 for rare coin – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 The British Museum has paid a little more than $630,000 for a rare, 1,200-year-old gold coin dating to Anglo-Saxon times. It…
Ken’s Korner: Up to 50,000 Wisconsin quarters have an error – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 As many as 50,000 of the Wisconsin state quarters made at the Denver Mint in 2004 have a flaw and…
Ken’s Korner: Coming in 2007 — presidential dollars – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2006 The U.S. Mint, hoping to cash in on the same success it has enjoyed with the state quarters program, will start producing dollar coins…
Ken’s Korner: Did you give an antique or collectible as a gift? – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2006 This holiday season, did you give or receive an antique or collectible? Aside from being interesting and different, they can…
Ken’s Korner: Horde of coins found at Emperor Qin’s tomb – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2006 Archaeologists using a magnetic scan have determined that the tomb of China’s first emperor contains a large number of coins, most of them probably…
