Companion to the best-selling GOLD: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Sell Today. Silver is even more affordable than gold, and an excellent way to add tangible assets to your portfolio—as well as being the precious metal used to make some of...

The $2.50 quarter eagle occupies a distinctive place in American coinage. Too small for common use in international trade and rarely circulating in everyday commerce, these coins nonetheless were minted almost continuously for more than 130 years,...

The Parable of the Lost Coin. The widow's mite. The coin in the fish's mouth. Money has always played a major role in the Greatest Story Ever Told. And thousands of years later, the coins and artifacts left behind continue to guide us to a greater...

A Penny Saved R.S. Yeoman and His Remarkable Red Book Coin collectors have depended on the Guide Book of United States Coins for generations, making the “Red Book” a world-renowned bestseller with more than 25 million copies sold. Today its...

Only a few weeks after the “Shot Heard 'Round the World,” the American Continental Congress authorized its very first issuance of paper money. Continental Currency was based on the hope of a young nation's future and a war for liberty, not on...

The $10 gold eagle coin, named for the national bird depicted on its reverse, was first struck in 1795 as part of America’s foundation for a federal monetary system. These coins circulated in international trade and large-scale transactions, and...

Cash in Your Coins: Selling the Rare Coins You've Inherited is the essential guide for anyone who’s come into a collection—or a hoard—of old coins and doesn’t know where to start. Did you just inherit a coin collection? How...

Postcard collecting has been a popular American pastime since the hobby's Golden Age more than a hundred years ago. For today's collector, postcards offer historic photography, snapshots of pop culture and everyday life, colorful works by famous...

Step inside, you won't believe your eyes…. In Lost and Found Coin Hoards and Treasure join master storyteller Q. David Bowers as he shines light on the most astounding, dramatic, and unusual American coin hoards and treasures. Barrels of old...

Only Q. David Bowers, widely regarded as the Dean of American Numismatics, could produce a reference as sweeping and authoritative as the Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins. In this extensively revised second edition,...

Our national motto debuted on United States coinage during the chaos and heartache of the American Civil War and has appeared on our money ever since. In In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking and Religion, numismatic researcher William...

Civil War tokens are tangible artifacts of America’s most turbulent era. These cent-sized tokens, privately issued by merchants and tradesmen during the Civil War, filled the gap left by the disappearance of official U.S. coinage from circulation...