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The article focuses on the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on numismatics and coins in the U.S. It mentions about the deal of Montana Coin stickered 1972 Ike dollar which was among a selection of pieces at the Walt Magnus from Texas. It also informs on the meeting of the Iola Historical Society.

The article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. during the early 1890's. The semi-humorous proposal of the "Tribune" that, if President Grover Cleveland is undoing a wrong in Hawaii, he ought to undo another by restoring their lands to the North American Indians, shows that the discussion of the Hawaiian affair is practically closed. The article also reports that when the sliver question was disposed of, it became inevitable that the banking question should be the uppermost of all financial topics in the national councils. Silver purchases had been favored in the West and South by reason of a supposed shortage of currency. People thought that they could see an increase of money if the mints were at work coining dollars on Government account, or if the Treasury was printing legal-tender notes based upon silver bullion.

The article offers information of the coinage of 1874-1880 in the U.S. It mentions that first 200 silver proof sets of 1878 were delivered on January 29 and were sold rather quickly to collectors and dealers, because another 100 sets were delivered on the 7th of February. It also mentions that the Mint was highly criticized in numismatic publications, but in truth was entirely blameless for obtaining the coveted coins.

The article focuses on political conditions of the U.S., as of November 8, 1883. The Director of the Mint renews his recommendation that the coinage of silver dollars under the two-millions-per-month law be discontinued. He enforces his opinions by the statement that there are now 39,000,000 dollars of these coins in the Treasury over and above the outstanding silver certificates. The testimony collected by the Government for the purpose of bringing civil suits against the Star-route contractors is said to have been placed in the Attorney General's hands. It is also said that there is very little chance of the Government is getting a verdict.

The article presents news related to economic issues around the world as of September 30, 1897. The bimetallic flirtation in London has called forth an article from the pen of M. Leroy-Beaulieu in "Journal des Débats" protesting against the plan of plunging France into the financial chaos implied by opening her mint to the free coinage of silver, either with or without the company of the U.S. and India. The announcement that Governor Margaret Nelson Stephens of Missouri has received an unsolicited offer from New York capitalists to fund the entire debt of the state at 3 percent, interest, instead of the 3.5 percent now paid, is only one of many signs that the rate of interest in the West is falling and that all borrowers profit by it.

The article presents news related to political and economic issues around the world as of September 23, 1897. It appears now that the Bank of England did address a note to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as long ago as July 29, offering to hold one-fifth of the reserves of the issues department in silver on condition that "the French mint is again open to the free coinage of silver, and that the prices at which silver is procurable and salable are satisfactory." The lynching in Indiana of several ordinary burglars and thieves is another illustration of the spread all over the union of contempt for legal process.

The article offers the author's insights on the five founding fathers of the United States Mint who were appointed a committee on October 31, 1791. The author states that among the five fathers include George Cabot, Ralph Izard, and John Henry. HE says that the five committee members were also members of the Federalist Party.

The article discusses legality issues related to numismatics in the U.S. in the 19th century. It notes the selling of coins to collectors by U.S. Mint officers and employees without recording the transactions. It also cites the effort of James Kimball, appointed Mint director in 1885, to find specific instances of secret production of rarities, restrikes, patterns, and fantasies. Moreover, it indicates the cessation of secret making of rarities after 1887.

The article presents the author's exotic gold dollar love tokens collection. He mentions the three different types of U.S. gold dollars including one which is the type II love tokens that had been considered as the scarcest having the lowest type mintage. He also notes the piece of collection of the German coin which appears to have been very deliberate wherein the pin was made for a woman who immigrated from Germany or was married in 1877.

The article looks into the January 1849 gold dollar patterns fabricated by U.S. Mint coin manufacturing facility's Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. It mentions that Longacre was asked by North Carolina Congressman and coinage advocate James Iver McKay to produce patterns of his proposed gold dollars as part of the state's coinage innovation through minting. Details of Longacre's 1849 gold dollar patterns including the characteristics and weight of the coins are also noted.

The article focuses on the Double Eagle gold coins and the U.S. government's continued pursuit of the coins that were stolen from the Philadelphia Mint in the 1930's. Topics include how the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 allowed the U.S. Federal Reserve the ability to raise gold prices, how coin dealers have traded the coins since 1940, and the true value of the coins in 2011.

The article explores the mysteries of the issuance of the Silver Dollar coins in 1861 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It notes that the New Orleans Mint has been tought to be producing silver dollars from dies that were sent from Philadelphia for 1861. It has been mentioned that only the Confederate States of America has the control over the coinage at the U.S. Mint in New Orleans Louisiana and it has accused the New Orleans Mint of striking bogus coins made from galvanized metals.

The article focuses on the analysis of the distribution and dispersion of circulating coins in the U.S. It states that collected coin samples from cities across the U.S. provided detailed information on the incidence of mintmarks in various locations. It mentions that the patterns show the process of the distribution of coins in a variety of channels including the Federal Reserve Banks, armored transport companies, and consolidation of coins by private firms such as Coinstar Inc.

The article discusses the history of collecting U.S. coins by mintmark. It reports that the New Orleans Mint was established and began to produce coins bearing an "O" mintmark in 1838. Since then to 1909, it struck all contemporary U.S. silver and gold denominations except the 20 cents. It further discusses the missing Mexican 1907 20 centavos, the only coin struck at the New Orleans Mint for foreign country. It bears an "M" mintmark instead of "O."

Criticizes the Sacajawea dollar produced by the U.S. Mint. Brief background on the life of Sacajawea; Comparison between Sacajawea and her keeper, Charbonneau; Symbolism of Sacajawea dollar; Description of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the child carried by Sacajawea on her back.

Deals with the marketing campaign of the U.S. Mint to promote the dollar coin that replaced the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. Amount spent by the Mint to promote the coin from 1998 to 2001; Impact of the campaign on public awareness; Barriers facing the Mint in its efforts to increase public use of the dollar coin. INSET: Oops!.

Focuses on U.S. mint. Increase and decline in demand for wares of the mint as of September 15, 1965; Reaction of people on the presence of U.S. presidents on the mint designs; Production of mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1792.

The article focuses on assembling two truly handsome type sets, those of the bigger U.S. silver issues. Topics include Kennedy half dollars are remarkably inexpensive and the Franklin half dollar series comes next, and has no truly scarce or rare coins within the series and it appears there are still some great coins out there for equally great prices and U.S. silver dollars issued from five different Mints, often in large numbers.

The article discusses U.S. collectibles manufacturer Franklin Mint (FM) and its financial condition as of August 1976, with information provided about its sales, return on equity, and earnings per share. Topics include Americans' alleged fondness for collecting, FM's marketing strategy of promoting its products as limited editions, and the number of collectors in FM's subscription list. The mint's investments in advertising are also presented.

The article discusses the drama "A Brilliant Comedy." Some fifteen theatrical offerings descended upon New York during Christmas week. It is not exactly a comedy, if by that term one means necessarily a play whose sole purpose is to be amusing or even one in which all the conflicts are resolved through the benign offices of rationality, but Mr. S. N. Behrman is still the best comic writer in the sense that no one else can write with quite his combination of intelligence and suavity. No one else so persistently avoids the cliche or so consistently mints his gold anew.

The article reports that in the recent past, the price of gold has jumped up, then settled a bit in the U.S. which mirrors the behavior of gold at different times in the past few decades. It mentions the 1909-D Indian Head half eagle is the most common of the series designed by Bela Lyon Pratt. It also mentions about the classic U.S. coins minted on the West Coast.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the articles in the previous issues including "The End of the Modern Era of the United State Coins" in the June 2013 issue, "Give Me Liberty (Nickels)" in the June 2013 issue, and "Collecting Greatness" in the May 2013 issue.

The article focuses on minting of half dollars. It states that Potter Palmer, a Chicago, Illinois socialite, suggested to the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee that $100 of the money reserved for the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition should be given in a souvenir quarter dollars form. It mentions that the minted 4,050,00 Columbian half dollars in 1893 were placed in the Mint due to the scarcity of buyers and the coins were stored in cloth bags.

Reports on plans to commemorate the Wright brothers first human flight on quarters issued by the United States Mint. Debate over credit for the Wright brothers by North Carolina and Ohio; How the men were born in Ohio and took flight in North Carolina.

Reports on the money that the United States Mint is making from the quarters it makes commemorating different states. Prices charged for 100- and 1000-coin bags; Amount of money the mint plans to make in online sales in 2000; How the mint is advertising its Web site.

The article describes the history of the 1870-dated gold 1-U.S. dollar coin placed in the cornerstone of the San Francisco Mint which features an "S" that was likely mintmarked.

The article reflects on the selling price of bullion and bullion-impacted coins, and mentions that however, U.S. Mint sales and other indicators suggest potential coin investors remain in the equity markets despite these gains and also presents several charts related to the same. Topics include dealers are anxious to restock, since these coins sell fast and this includes Gold and Silver American Eagles, common date and common condition precious metal coins.

The article presents information on the increased demand on U.S. mints for coins due to increase in business activity.

The article focuses on an acute and widespread shortage in nickels and pennies in the U.S. in 1962. Factors behind the shortage are population growth and recent increases in sales taxes and in the use of vending machines. The Treasury Department lacks the funds needed for paying for extra production at the Philadelphia Mint and the Denver Mint.

The article discusses the arguments for and against the continuation of minting of the U.S. penny. Topics discussed include the costs of producing the penny, erosion of the value of the penny and its impact on cash transactions. It also mentions the support for continuation of the penny from Americans for Common Cents, funded by the zinc industry.

The article presents the author's views on the 1988 Kennedy half dollar coin. The author views that the quantities of circulating half dollars coined during the 1980s varied every year. The author further views that the half dollar has always been his favorite U.S. coin denomination, and collected every series within it by date and mint.

The author explores the U.S. Mint's 2014 Baseball Hall of Fame which features several commemorative coins for numismatics and baseball fans in the U.S. He mentions the physical features of the commemorative coin design in a concave obverse resembling a baseball and a convex reverse depicting a baseball glove at the Whitman Exposition in Baltimore, Maryland on March 27, 2014. He also outlines the future risks for coin collectors in collecting commemorative coins in long-term plans.

The article discusses the theft of a silver bar used for the silver and gold coins production to the Philadelphia Mint from the New York City banking house of J. W. Seligman on January 24, 1885. It mentions that despite its substantial weight, a silver bullion piece was easily stolen from the Philadelphia Mint. It also outlines the contributions of Nevada State Senator James Wesley Stewart in ensuring the safety of silver bars from its Panamint Mines in California.

The article discusses the early methods of post-mint state in making coins in the U.S. It mentions the early developments used by the Bank of England in creating coins which can counterstamped primarily found on large 18th and 19th-century silver coins and evaluates its coin's weight. It notes that coins were usually elongated, squeezed and flattened use for popular souvenirs. It also offers information on the 1874 trade dollar, 1797 Spanish dollar and the 1843 obverse dollar cent.

The article offers information on the 1916 U.S. coins. It states that in the year 1916, mintages in the U.S. dramatically improves because of the demand in the U.S. exports. It mentions that 29 million pieces of Lincoln cent was struck by the Philadelphia Mint in 1915 and was quadrupled in 1916 with a figure of 132 million.

The article focuses on Coiner Colonel Archibald Loudon Snowden who is the forefront of investigation of the directed striking of coins or the use of old dies at the Philadelphia Mint. It states that the U.S. Treasury sent its first comptroller to investigate the activities at the coining department in December 1871. It says that the employees at the coining department have claimed that Snowden has ordered making three punches who did not correspond to the size of coinage made at the mint.

The article looks at the shrinkage of the design features of U.S. coins. It is inferred that the changes were driven by the shifting priorities in the face of rising mintage since 1960 and the replacement of the master hubs. Illustration of changes to various coins that have been affected by the shrinkage are given, including nickels, dimes, and cents.

The article offers the author's view on collecting varieties of Van Allen and Mallis (VAMs) dollars in the U.S. The author states that the most problematic field of variety collecting is the Morgan and Peace dollars because of its high mintages which have countless minor varieties which are ignored by collectors of other type of coins. The author also mentions that the Morgan and Peace dollars attract high percentage of unsophisticated collectors.

The article offers the author's insight on the coin series in the 1950s, wherein, half dollars went into disuse, with few die varieties and low mintages. He states that mintages have been driven by economic growth due factors such as the onset of the Korean War and the economic recession in the 1950s. The author mentions that the Philadelphia Mint never again coined Franklin halves in large amounts through the coin shortage in 1963.

The article offers the author's insight on the dime coinage of U.S. in the 1950s. He says that each of the dimes from all three mints had production totaling below 20 million, which were all scarce in circulation and were subjected to hoardings. He collectors will face difficulty in assembling a set of Roosevelt dimes that have sharp strike and good luster. He discusses the quality of coins in the 1950s as quality control was the least priority of the U.S. Mint.

The article discusses the issue concerning the need for the U.S. government to produce coinage for the country. It notes that several schemes were employed by Congress to produce coinage in response to coin shortage in the country. It mentions that debates continued on subjects pertaining to the designs of these coins as well as on issues concerning the establishment of mint which was first produced at the request of President Washington who provided a silver for the coins.

The article focuses on the large mintages of nickel 5-cent pieces in 1800s-1900s in the U.S. It mentions the fall of mintage of nickels in 1885 to just 1,472,700 making the date the first key issue of the Liberty Head nickel series. Meanwhile, two milestones occurred in 1912 as Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California mints had coined nickels for the first time.

The article focuses on the loss of the S-minted 1858 quarter eagle at the San Francisco Mint. It states that the San Francisco Mint becomes an efficient money factory in terms of providing large quantities of gold coins; however, 1,200 S-minted 1858 quarter eagle were struck on January 9, 1858. It mentions that only one quarter eagle was listed in the gold domination weight section report of the U.S. Assay Commission for February 1859.