Columns

These short, informative articles cover a wide range of numismatic topics.

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In the 1950s and ’60s, the motif of the day was to regularly clean coins. [...]

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English has been called unflatteringly a “bastard language”; the more polite among linguists are more [...]

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“Which U.S. coin design is the most beautiful?” This is a question that numismatists encounter [...]

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Gualtiero Giori was the third generation of the Coen family of security printers. In 1876 [...]