In a word, coins, tokens, medals, and paper money are interesting. This is particularly so if you go beyond the basic item, grade, and market value, and contemplate its background. Each has a story to tell. Learning this information makes a medal, coin, or other item much more desirable to own. Our New York Americana [...]
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Two Interesting and Rare Tokens
One of my current projects, partly numismatic and partly having to do with my hobby of music boxes, involves tracking down information for the Yale Wonder Clock Company. This outfit was incorporated in Burlington, Vermont, on December 15, 1900. The leading light was Charles A. Yale, an inventor, and, it is said, an artist. I [...]
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