Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1905-1908, A Guide Book of Southern States Currency, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beth Deisher, bibliophiles, Clemy Award to Gene Hessler, Coin Chemistry, Coin Values, COINage, David C. Harper, Douglas Winter, Ed Reiter, Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint, Hugh Shull, IMPACT ON NUMISMATICS, NLG, NLG 2007 BOOK AWARDS, Numismatic Investments, NUMISMATIC LITERARY GUILD, numismatic magazines, Paul Green, Q David Bowers, Robert Hoge, Roger W. Burdette’s Renaissance of American Coinage, Tokens and Medals, United States Coins, US Paper Money: Obsolete Paper Money, World Coin News, World Coins, World Paper Money on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) Selected
Roger W. Burdette’s
Renaissance of American Coinage, 1905-1908
as the single work having the greatest potential impact on Numismatics published in 2007.
This year the Clemy Award went to Gene Hessler.
There were also a series of awards listed as “BEST SPECIALIZED BOOKs”, which covered topics such as: United States Coins; World Coins; US Paper Money: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1806 O.128, 1814 Single leaf PCGS MS 63, 1832 O. 123, ANA Convention, auction by Sheridan Downey, Baltimore Convention Center, Capped Bust Half Dollars, Draped Bust half Dollars, July 30, Overton Plate Coin, pedigrees are historical, PNG Day on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Meyer Selected Rarities Sale opens for preview on July 29 and 30 at the Baltimore convention center in Baltimore at Sheridan Downey’s bourse tables 931-933 during normal bourse floor hours of PNG day (July 29) and the American Numismatic Association Convention on July 30. This is a mail and sealed bid sale and closing [...]
Posted in Gammill Numismatics, cold war communications, numismatics, tagged coin collection, cold war communications, e-sylum, father of the internet, founders of coin internet, google, history coin internet, history of coin auctions on the internet, history of the coin internet, internet auctions, internet.extraordinary scientist. Robert Kahn, Presidential Medal of Freedom, roger sibioni, vinton Cerf on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The answer to the question is YES, a fellow by the name of Vinton G. Cerf, currently a Vice President at Google is widely considered by most as the father of what we know today as the internet. Dr. Cerf lead the team that developed our governments communications network during the cold war era which [...]
Posted in Gammill Numismatics, LLC, colonial flags, copper tokens, numismatics, tagged civil war history, civil war store cards, civil war tokens, coin collecting, colonial flags, copper tokens, copperheads, Gadsden flag, gammill civil war tokens, gammill coin collecting tokens, gammill token, gammill token collector, hoarding of copper coins, patriotic civil war tokens, rattlesnake flag, rattlesnake token, token collectors on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Civil War Tokens
THE RATTLESNAKE TOKEN!
Collecting Civil War tokens is an interesting pursuit just loaded with history of the Great War between the States. Regular issues of US coinage was hoarded during the Civil War and this dramatically restricted merchants ability to make small change. In response to this situation, many of the merchants had tokens made [...]
