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1. Shipwreck Coins and Artificacts There is something exciting about thinking of shipwrecks, buried and sunken treasures, and the fortune of finding such rare collectibles as shipwreck coins and shipwreck artifacts. People have been searching for the valuables lost in shipwrecks for y...
2. Kennedy Half Dollar November 22, 1963, United States President John Fitgerald Kennedy was assassinated. The nation went into morning. All over the country people decided that they wanted to commemorate the slain leader. Roads, schools, even one of New York City's a...
3. Susan B Anthony Dollar The Susan B Anthony Dollar was minted from 1979 to 1981. It was resurrected again for a single year in 1999. The front (or obverse) of the coin depicts women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony. The back (or reverse) depicts an eagle flying a...
4. Lincoln Pennies--A Great Intro to Coin Collecting Reach into your pocket, scrounge around in your change purse, look between the cushions of your couch, rummage through the top drawer of your dresser or your nightstand, or perhaps look under the driver's seat of your car and you will almost undoubte...
5. Flying Eagle Cent - A High Point in Pennies? One of the more striking coins in US Mint History, the Flying Eagle Cent was also one of the shorter lived coins. The mint started making them in 1856, but the last Flying Eagle was struck just three years later, in 1858. With their brief period of mi...
6. Franklin Half Dollars The Franklin Half Dollar was the fifty-cent coin minted in the United States from 1948 to 1963. The coin pictured a bust of Benjamin Franklin in profile on the obverse (heads) along with the word "Liberty," the inscription "In God We T...
7. Indian Head Penny The Indian Head Penny, or Indian Head Cent, has always been a favorite of collectors, especially among boys. Collecting Indian Head Cents is a wonderful way for anyone to enter the hobby of Coin Collecting (Numismatics). Not only is the design d...
8. World Coin Collecting - The Hobby For Brighter Kids! Want to get your kids started on an incredible journey that will take them to far away lands and back through time?  Does your child have an inquisitive nature that you would like to see nurtured?  Would you like your ch...
9. Coin Collecting: The Hobby of Kings Coin collecting -- let's see -- It's a hobby where you get to be around money and all sorts of precious metals all the time -- I like that. It involves the study of interesting times, places, people and events in history -- I like that. I get to look...
10. Silver Dollars When people think about coin collecting, they frequently think about silver. And when they think about silver, it is the dollar coin that most frequently comes to mind. So pervasive is the thought of this phrase that even though it has been close to...
11. Buffalo Nickel: A Truly American Coin The Buffalo Nickel is one of the most popular United States Coins to collect. The coin was minted from 1913 to 1938. It was designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser. The obverse (front or "heads" side) of the coin features a composite portrait of thre...
12. Half Dollars -- An Introduction Half Dollars minted in the United States are some of the most interesting coins in the world! Whether the image be a fallen President, Lady Liberty herself, or a renowned statesman/philosopher/scientist, the minted image is striking. Whether you are...
13. Walking Liberty Half Dollar: American Gem Many people consider the Walking Liberty Half Dollar the most beautiful coin ever produced by the United States Mint. In my humble opinion, if it's not the prettiest, it surely is in the top five! If you show ten random US coins to a group of peo...
14. Barber Half Dollars With all of the controversy and struggle, it is amazing that the Barber Half Dollar was ever produced. James P. Kimball was the Director of the United States Mint in 1887. That year, in his annual report to Congress, Kimball requested a change in the...
15. Lincoln Silver Dollar February 12, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of <b>Abraham Lincoln</b>, sixteenth President of the United States. One of the mose beloved Chief Executives in the nation's history due to his character, his leadership, and h...
16. Coin Collecting Information And Trivia Ever since I was a child I have been collecting old coins. I like to collect old US silver coins like the Standing Liberty quarter, Walking Liberty half dollar, and the Morgan silver dollar, but my favorites are the Seated Liberty coins, and others m...
17. A Squidoo Christmas Shopping Lens Do you like to shop? Are you the kind of person that has all their Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving, or are you the one braving the crowds on Christmas Eve trying to find just the right gift? I like to shop online. It saves me gas and I don...
18. The Walking Liberty Half Dollar Many people consider the Walking Liberty Half Dollar the most beautiful coin every produced. In my humble opinion, if it's not the prettiest, it surely is in the top five! If you show a group of coins to a group of people who are not coin collectors,...
19. Coin Grading Coin grading has evolved over the years to a system of finer and finer grade distinctions. In the beginning, people collected ancients and there were two grades, new and used. Currently, particularly when talking about US coins, a more diverse scale...
20. Peace Dollar: Commemorating War's End The Peace Dollar was produced by the US Mint from 1921 to 1928, when minting was stopped. 1934 saw the resumption of production of the Peace Dollar for a two year period. It was minted briefly in 1965 (bearing the date 1964), but no examples of...