This article was originally printed in Numismatic News.  >> Subscribe today! The interception of a package of 361 fake U.S. Trade dollars recently shipped from China to a recipient near Chicago, brings into sharp focus a growing epidemic that threatens … Continue reading →

For those of us who consider ourselves numismatists, or to put it more plainly, genuine, honest to goodness coin “collectors,” the volatile price of silver is incidental! Continue reading →

How moral is it that we have engaged in incomes policies over the last seven decades that have systematically transferred tens of trillions of dollars in aggregate wealth from younger generations to older generations through taxation and transfer payments? Continue reading →

In agreement with the large majority responses to your question, should states have the right to issue their own legal tender, the creation of independent state currencies is unacceptable, and a single currency of the perfect union is essential.
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CONECA is a national numismatic organization devoted to the education of error and variety coin collectors. Its focus is on many error and variety specialties, including doubled dies, repunched mintmarks and multiple errors. Continue reading →

Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank saw a need for negative interest rates to induce households and businesses to part with savings and borrow and spend more.
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I always find it fascinating when a member of congress does not learn the lessons of history. Continue reading →

In the matter of the U.S. $1 bill being replaced by a coin, you could perhaps look at the similar experience of the United Kingdom in replacing the £1 note with with a £1 coin. Continue reading →

I would like to add some additional perspectives to Joseph Ricci’s very accurate “Viewpoint” in the Feb. 22 Numismatic News. Continue reading →

It has become fashionable to commemorate everything. Coin collectors no longer need to look back to yesteryear to discover coins that depict our national character with symbols of liberty, fortitude, and agricultural wealth. Continue reading →