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Why Collect Commemoratives? A Better Question Might Be “Why Not?”

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Collecting Commemoratives By Ron Drzewucki If you collect modern U. S. coins, then you collect commemoratives. Today, practically every coin the United States Mint produces commemorates someone or something. There’s a president on the obverse of every denomination, including Presidential $1 coins. The reverse of the quarter has been especially busy over the last 15 […]

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Top 5 Commemorative Presidential Coins

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By Bullion Shark LLC …… Former presidents have played a major role in our circulating coinage for over one hundred years, appearing on the obverses of most of those coins. This even includes series like the Presidential dollar, which started out as circulating coinage in 2007 but became collector coins in 2012. Because of this […]

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Commemorative Stories: The 1900 Lafayette Dollar – Part II

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By David Provost for CoinWeek …..   Link to Part I   Approved When the Lafayette dollar was approved by President William McKinley on March 3, 1899, it was little more than a year from the planned opening of the Paris Exposition and just 16 months from the scheduled dedication of the Lafayette Monument as […]

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Commemorative Stories: The 1900 Lafayette Dollar Coin – Part I

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By David Provost for CoinWeek …..   Author’s Note: This installment of the Lafayette dollar story presents how the coin came to be; the conclusion (Part II) will discuss the coin as a collectible. * * * United States commemorative coins have always been used as fundraising tools for their sponsors. From the first half […]

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Q. David Bowers: Revisiting Charles E. Barber

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By Q. David Bowers – Co-Founder, Stack’s Bowers ….. Charles Edward Barber became the sixth engraver at the Philadelphia Mint in 1880, following the death of his father, Chief Engraver William Barber; he remained in the post until his death on February 18, 1917. The Liberty Head silver denominations he designed and which are known […]

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Commemorative Stories: The 1900 Lafayette Dollar Coin – Part I

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  by David Provost for CoinWeek…. Author’s Note: This installment of the Lafayette dollar story presents how the coin came to be; the conclusion (Part II) will discuss the coin as a collectible. US commemorative coins have always been used as fundraising tools for their sponsors. From the first half dollars struck in 1892-93 for […]

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