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Like Potato Chips, One Mint is Never Enough
Most readers are familiar with P, D, and S coins, but did you know that before there was a CC mintmark, there was just a C? And that the D mintmark used by Denver was used before the Civil War by a … Continue reading
Posted in Civil war, Colonial Coins, History
Tagged Civil war, Georgia, gold, gold rush, mintmarks, New Orleans, North Carolina, Philadelphia, US History
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A Brief History of the Morgan Silver Dollar: Its Inception, Purchasing Power, and the Standard of Value
Have you ever found an old silver dollar in the back of your mother’s jewelry box, hidden under the necklaces that were passed down to her from her grandmother? Chances are it’s a Morgan dollar. The U.S. Mint’s 1878-1921 Morgan … Continue reading
Posted in American, Colonial Coins, Dollar Coins, Eight Reale, History, Morgan, Pieces of Eight, Silver, Spanish
Tagged American history, Chicago, coin collecting, D. Moberg, day’s pay, dollar, Henry Ward Beecher, history, hobbies, hobby, iccoin.com, industrial revolution, International Coins and Currency, J. Brauer, life interest, Montpelier, Montpelier Vermont, morgan dollar, numismatics, numismatism, silver, silver dollar, unions, US History, Vermont, VT, wages
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