This week’s headlines include the Royal Hawaiian Mint’s upcoming anniversary, end of the U.S. Mint’s mutilated coin program, and Grover Cleveland silver medal.
The Royal Hawaiian Mint will celebrate its 50th anniversary as the 50th state’s first state-registered private mint in 2025. Founded on September 11, 1974, to commemorate Hawaiian culture, it struck its first piece the following year. Cofounders Bernard von NotHaus and Talena Jay “Telle” Presley will publish a 350-page book about the mint’s history next year.
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The U.S. Mint has officially ended its mutilated coin exchange program. The U.S. Mint’s Mutilated Coin Redemption Program was suspended in 2018, and now the mint has finalized its decision to no longer accept bent, partial, fused, or mixed coins at face value.
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Customers will be able to purchase the U.S. Mint’s Grover Cleveland Presidential Silver Medal beginning on October 2 at noon ET. As the nation’s 22nd and 24th president (1885-89 and 1893-97), Cleveland is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms.
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Irish economist and writer David McWilliams, a former economist at the Central Bank of Ireland, traces the development of human civilization through the lens of money in his new book Money: A Story of Humanity. His ambitious work explores how money has shaped the world from 18,000 B.C. to the present day.
