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2008 Archives

• Thursday, May 8, 2008


• Makes Lincoln “Pennies” More Expensive to Produce...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Beginning in June...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Augustus Saint-Gaudens to the fore!...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Double Fakes...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Peek-A-Boo...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Round and Round We Go...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Mythbusters...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• To Err is Human But is Nice For Numismatists...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Wake Up, Little Susie...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• The American Numismatic Society...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• The Most Fun of All...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Numismatists of the Year...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• The American Melting Pot, Literally...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Do You Collect Coins?...[Monday, May 5, 2008]


• Who’s On First?...[Tuesday, April 22, 2008]


• The Joy and Challenge of Numismatic Research...[Thursday, April 10, 2008]


• William Jennings Bryan...[Friday, March 14, 2008]


• Harvey Stack...[Friday, January 4, 2008]

2007 Archives

• Montroville W. Dickeson, M.D....[Friday, November 2, 2007]


• Chet Krause...[Wednesday, October 10, 2007]


• Augustus B. Sage...[Friday, August 24, 2007]


• J. Colvin Randall...[Monday, August 13, 2007]


• Focus on Daniel...[Wednesday, July 25, 2007]


• Augustus Saint-Gaudens...[Tuesday, July 3, 2007]


• Charles I. Bushnell...[Friday, June 1, 2007]


• Cliff Mishler...[Friday, May 11, 2007]


• Chet Krause...[Wednesday, April 25, 2007]


• Edward C. Rochette...[Friday, April 6, 2007]


• George Washington...[Thursday, March 29, 2007]


• John Adams...[Friday, March 9, 2007]


• P.T. Barnum...[Tuesday, February 27, 2007]


• George T. Morgan...[Friday, February 9, 2007]


• Dwight Manley...[Wednesday, January 31, 2007]


• Dr. James C. Ayer...[Friday, January 12, 2007]

2006 Archives

• Focus on YOU...[Thursday, December 28, 2006]


• Santa Claus...[Thursday, December 14, 2006]


• Yankee Robinson...[Friday, December 1, 2006]


• George Washington...[Monday, November 13, 2006]


• Salmon P. Chase...[Friday, October 27, 2006]


• Remembering John Pittman...[Friday, October 13, 2006]


• Abe Kosoff...[Monday, September 25, 2006]


• John Walter Scott...[Friday, September 8, 2006]


• The Rittenhouse Society...[Friday, August 25, 2006]


• George Washington Remembered...[Friday, August 11, 2006]


• Christopher Columbus...[Friday, July 28, 2006]


• Remembering James Kelly...[Wednesday, June 28, 2006]


• Theodore Roosevelt...[Monday, May 22, 2006]


• Meet Jeremiah Bentley...[Friday, April 14, 2006]


• Frank Van Valen...[Friday, March 24, 2006]


• Numismatists in 1960...[Friday, February 3, 2006]

2005 Archives

• Morgan L. Marshall...[Thursday, December 22, 2005]


• Meeting Michael Moore...[Monday, November 21, 2005]


• Some Notes on John J. Ford, Jr....[Monday, October 3, 2005]


• Chet Krause...[Friday, August 19, 2005]


• Anna Willess Williams...[Friday, July 8, 2005]


• Some Notes on Walter Breen...[Monday, May 23, 2005]


• Col. James W. Ellsworth, Numismatist...[Friday, February 25, 2005]


• P.T. Barnum and “His” Half Dollar...[Monday, January 24, 2005]

2004 Archives

• A Few Words About James B. Longacre...[Monday, December 20, 2004]


• John Sherman...[Wednesday, November 24, 2004]


• George Abernathy...[Friday, October 22, 2004]


• A Few Notes About B. Max Mehl...[Friday, October 1, 2004]


• W. Elliot Woodward...[Friday, July 30, 2004]


• Meet Lafayette on a Famous Coin...[Friday, June 11, 2004]


• David Rittenhouse...[Friday, May 28, 2004]


• William Cutler Atwater...[Friday, May 14, 2004]


• Frederick C.C. Boyd...[Friday, April 30, 2004]


• Who is This Man and Why is He Important Numismatically?...[Friday, April 16, 2004]


• George F. Heath...[Friday, April 9, 2004]


• Question: Where’s George?...[Friday, April 2, 2004]


• Frank G. Duffield...[Friday, March 19, 2004]


• An Appreciation of Lorin G. Parmelee...[Friday, March 5, 2004]


• Jules Reiver...[Tuesday, February 24, 2004]


• Edgar H. Adams of the Numismatic Hall of Fame...[Friday, February 6, 2004]


• Bob Evans...[Friday, January 16, 2004]

2003 Archives

• John Babalis...[Friday, December 12, 2003]


• Christopher Bechtler...[Friday, November 7, 2003]


• John Kraljevich, Jr., The Expert...[Friday, October 10, 2003]


• World-Renowned Artist: The Other Side of Augustus Saint-Gaudens...[Thursday, September 25, 2003]


• George T. Morgan...[Friday, August 29, 2003]


• Q. David Bowers Receives ANA's Exemplary Service Award...[Friday, August 8, 2003]


• John Kraljevich Receives ANA's Heath Literary Award...[Friday, August 8, 2003]


• Harry W. Bass, Jr....[Friday, July 18, 2003]


• James Longacre (1794-1869)...[Friday, June 27, 2003]


• Dr. J. Hewitt Judd (1899-1986)...[Friday, June 20, 2003]


• Frank Van Valen and John J. Kraljevich, Jr....[Friday, June 13, 2003]


• Abraham Lincoln...[Tuesday, May 27, 2003]


• Virgil Michael Brand...[Monday, May 12, 2003]