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 I have found I really enjoy buying and selling national bank notes. Whenever I get a new one I always take a few mins to learn the history of where it came from. This one comes from the city of Lewiston located in southeastern Maine, which is now the second largest city in Maine. Located on the Androscoggin river, it became an industrial city around the time of the Civil War. By the time this note was made in the early ...
 For the history nerds, numismatists, and curiosity seekers-- Here is a very special note that I recently sold that for rarity alone is worthy a write-up! The 1890's marked the height of the Victorian era when cities in the east exploded in a "melting pot" of immigrants and towering factories and crowded tenements. Mass production had swept up the masses of men women and children who sought for ...
 Indianapolis was somewhat of an improbable city. It was arbitrarily selected as a central location in the state. Typically successful cities are located near major waterways but Indy proved to be an anomaly by not only surviving but flourishing. The early settlers tried hard to screw that up. After choosing a very difficult swampy wilderness for the state capital they insisted that canal boats would link it to the rest of ...
1894 Oliver Bosbyshell Mint Medal Award designed by George T. Morgan
Posted on Tuesday February 27, 2018  Oliver Christian Bosbyshell (January 3, 1839 – August 1, 1921) was Superintendent of the United States Mint at Philadelphia from 1889 to 1894. He also claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded by enemy action in the Civil War, stating that he received a bruise on the forehead from an object thrown by a Confederate sympathizer while his unit was marching through ...
 Check out the new OHNS pamphlet on the Origins of Hobo ...
Extremely Rare Danish Abolitionist Medal Acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Posted on Monday January 15, 2018  This past week (Jan 10th 2018), Colonial Williamsburg announced their acquisition of one of the most important medals I’ve ever handled: the medal coined by Denmark to commemorate the end of the slave trade to the Danish West Indies (today the US Virgin Islands) in 1792. Slavery persisted in the Danish islands until 1848 (even longer than in the British West Indies), but Denmark was the first of the colonizing ...
 noun – /noun/ – The part of speech that names a person, place or thing The study of tokens is necessarily the study of nouns… First, the THING A morning of brisk trading took place at our last CARTS meeting. I swapped tokens with a few regular members and came away with a curious round brass watch check that screamed for further research. The item in question was ...
 We are a young country of 241 years, American heroes did not appear on our circulating coinage until 1859. Native American Indian first appeared on our cents in 1859. In 1909 Abraham Lincoln appeared on our cent. 1932 George Washington appeared on the quarter. 1946 Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared on the dime. 1948 Benjamin Franklin appeared on the half dollar. Cyrenaica, Cyrene; c. 435-331 BC Tetradrachm, 12.93g. BMC-73 Obv: Silphium plant with six leaves, K - V / P - A across field at corners of plant. Rx: Head of Ammon wearing ram's horn with short curly hair and scraggly beard. The Greek cities of Cyrenaica, namely Cyrene and Barce, were one of the main suppliers of grain for the Mediterranean (in one instance, they even saved mainland Greece ...  ...
Read more »  Dedicated to All Coin Collectors’ Wives Here’s a saying that you have all heard before, I think, "Philodemic Society": Intaglio seal matrix carved on 1838 Coronet large cent
Posted on Friday June 23, 2017  Host coin: 1838 USA Coronet large cent.  A recent acquisition: a bronze dupondius of Gaius Julius Caesar struck at an uncertain mint in northern Italy (various locations have been proposed over the decades). The obverse features the winged bust of Victory facing right with the legend CAESAR DIC TER (Caesar dictator for the third time). The reverse has the Goddess Minerva advancing left, holding a trophy over one shoulder and spear and shield in left hand. The ...
 On May 07, 1915, the German Navy committed arguably Germany’s biggest strategic failures in WWI: the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. International outrage grew as word spread that the ship was sank without warning, killing 1,198 passengers and crew, 128 of which were Americans. To add to this, Karl Goetz, German medalist and sculpture, created a satirical medal in August 1915. His intent was to embarrass the Cunard ...
Tea bricks have been used as a means of payment from 9th to 20th century in China, Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet, Turkmenistan and Russia. The Chinese Emperor had the monopoly on the production of tea as means of payment. The bricks were mainly produced in Sichuan, a Chinese province. Some have been made in Russia. They have various forms and sizes and were transported by yaks or camels caravans. |
