Category Archives: TAMS

Coin Collecting Advice – Numismatic Specialties Are Like Gold in Your Pocket

Coin Collecting with Richard Schwary – California Numismatic Investment …… Coin Collecting Advice When someone asks what type of rare coins I collect, and what suggestions might be valuable to another person, my coin collecting advice is almost always the same: The foundation of collecting or investing in numismatics should be based on your personal […]

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An Open Letter to Bill Hyder and the Token and Medal Society

By Dennis Tucker – Publisher, Whitman Publishing, LLC ……   April 2019 Dear Bill, I’ve got something to vent about. Your article in the January/February 2019 issue of the Token and Medal Society’s TAMS Journal (“Merchant Token Ephemera From Wiley, Kansas”) makes me feel like I’ve been asleep for the past 15 years as a […]

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New Token and Medal Society journal features Rochester medals, maverick tokens, and more

The September/October 2018 issue of the TAMS Journal (the official journal of the Token and Medal Society) has been shipped to Society members and will be in mailboxes shortly if they haven’t arrived already.
Features in volume LVIII, no

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New Token and Medal Society journal features Rochester medals, maverick tokens, and more

The September/October 2018 issue of the TAMS Journal (the official journal of the Token and Medal Society) has been shipped to Society members and will be in mailboxes shortly if they haven’t arrived already.
Features in volume LVIII, no

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New Token and Medal Society journal features Rochester medals, maverick tokens, and more

The September/October 2018 issue of the TAMS Journal (the official journal of the Token and Medal Society) has been shipped to Society members and will be in mailboxes shortly if they haven’t arrived already.
Features in volume LVIII, no

Continue reading on Mint News Blog

New Token and Medal Society journal features Rochester medals, maverick tokens, and more

The September/October 2018 issue of the TAMS Journal (the official journal of the Token and Medal Society) has been shipped to Society members and will be in mailboxes shortly if they haven’t arrived already.
Features in volume LVIII, no

Continue reading on Mint News Blog

New Token and Medal Society journal features Rochester medals, maverick tokens, and more

The September/October 2018 issue of the TAMS Journal (the official journal of the Token and Medal Society) has been shipped to Society members and will be in mailboxes shortly if they haven’t arrived already.
Features in volume LVIII, no

Continue reading on Coin Update News

The Dentuck ANA blog: Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Bowers, Burdette, Books, and Beards at America’s Biggest Coin Show
There’s something magical about the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money. For most collectors and dealers, this is the biggest “coin show” of the year

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Exploring Tokens & Medals Through the Eyes of a Longtime Coin Collector

  By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for CoinWeek.com …… I’ve been rediscovering the joys of tokens & medals lately. I say “rediscovering” because I’ve actually been accumulating them–along with medals and other forms of exonumia–since I was a child. I just never formally considered myself a “collector” of tokens and medals, because I spent much more time […]

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ANA News – Notable Numismatists Honored with Service Awards

Recipients recognized at Anaheim World’s Fair of Money Awards Banquet The recipients of the American Numismatic Association (ANA) 2016 Elvira Clain-Stefanelli Memorial Award, Farran Zerbe Memorial Award, Harry J. Forman Dealer of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Numismatist of the Year Award, and the Burnett Anderson Memorial Award will be formally recognized at the […]

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First Read: Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta

First Read, a CoinWeek continuing series of essays about classic and contemporary works of numismatic literature…   Essay by David Thomason Alexander, Founder Medal Collectors of America for CoinWeek….   Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta: Portrait Medallions by Jean-Baptiste Nini at the Chateau of Chaumont; Medallions of Franklin and of American Interest by Jean Martin Renaud; […]

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