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Barber Coins and a New Generation of Collectors

by John Frost, president and journal editor of The Barber Coin Collectors’ Society… When I began collecting coins in fourth grade, I really got the bug, and soon took this new hobby of mine seriously. Like several of my friends, I started with Lincoln cents, and I assembled most of the collection by sixth grade. […]

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Barber Dime Casts Spell in Harry Potter Prequel

The British “wizarding world” of Harry Potter has enchanted readers and filmgoers with fantasy landscapes for the past 20 years, but this November Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes filmgoers on a historical journey to New York City in the Jazz Era. While the inciting incidents in the Harry Potter franchise have ranged from hundreds of owls swarming a suburban home to deliver enchanted letters, to an evil wizard sending magical Brown Shirts (Death Eaters) to attack a resistance wedding, creator J

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