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Weekly Coin Columns by Dr. Taylor
- America's Unique Coins • 1/23/2010
- Mike Aron Rare Coin Auctions, 1982-2009 • 8/15/2009
- Collecting Jefferson Nickels • 8/8/2009
- Our Vanishing Coins • 8/1/2009
- The Royal Canadian Mint • 7/25/2009
- Dahlonega, Our Other Small Mint • 7/18/2009
- Charlotte, One of Two New Gold Coining Mints • 7/11/2009
- ANA Comes to L.A. In 2009 • 7/4/2009
- 1909-S Indian vs. 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent • 6/20/2009
- Sleuthing at Garage and Estate Sales • 6/13/2009
- Eva Adams, U.S. Mint Director, 1961-1969 • 5/16/2009
- Q. David Bowers, America's No. 1 Numismatist • 4/11/2009
- The Years of No Mintmarks • 4/4/2009
- Gordon Z. Greene, Numismatic Ambassador • 3/28/2009
- Saint-Gaudens Returns: The 2009 UHR $20 Gold Coin • 3/21/2009
- National Parks to Follow 50+6 State Quarters • 2/21/2009
- Visiting the Indian Government Mint • 2/14/2009
- Found a Hoard of Old Coins? Here's How to Proceed • 2/7/2009
- Numismatics in 1908 • 1/31/2009
- Coin Population Data, Part 2 • 1/24/2009
- Coin Population Data, Part 1 • 1/17/2009
- Coin Collecting and the Current Recession • 1/10/2009
- The Bureau of Engraving and Printing • 1/3/2009
- The New Orleans Mint • 12-27-2008
- Adna G. Wilde Jr., Pillar of the ANA • 12-20-2008
- Is It Legal to Own? • 12-13-2008
- Hard Times 1832-1844 And Today • 12-6-2008
- President Gerald Ford's Numismatic Legacy • 11-29-2008
- The American Numismatic Association, Part III • 11-22-2008
- The American Numismatic Association, Part II • 11-15-2008
- The Numismatist (ANA Part I) • 11-8-2008
- The Only Complete U.S. Coin Collection • 11-1-2008
- World's Largest Coins • 10-25-2008
- Coin Prices, 1978-1981 • 10-18-2008
- National Emblems on Coins: The Ashoka Monument • 10-11-2008
- B. Max Mehl, Little Numismatic Giant, 1884-1957 • 10-4-2008
- Venerable Coin Dealership: Stack Brothers, NYC • 9-27-2008
- The Famous 1943 Bronze Cents • 9-20-2008
- Platinum: Rare Metal Rarely Used in U.S. Coins • 9-13-2008
- Non-Americans on U.S. Commemorative Coins • 9-6-2008
- Coins & Medals of Robert E. Lee • 8-30-2008
- Money Terms and Origins • 8-23-2008
- The Color of Money • 8-16-2008
- OPA Tokens • 8-9-2008
- Real Wooden Money • 8-2-2008
- The First Coin for the Americas • 7-26-2008
- Walter Breen: Enigmatic Numismatist • 7-19-2008
- Two-Cent Piece Making a Comeback? • 7-12-2008
- April 1966 Issue of The Numismatist • 7-5-2008
- African Americans on U.S. Commemorative Coins • 6-28-2008
- How to List a Coin Inventory • 6-21-2008
- What's With the $2 Bill? • 6-14-2008
- Our Secretaries of the Treasury • 6-7-2008
- Symbolism on Our $1 Bill • 5-31-2008
- Collecting Mint Errors and Varieties • 5-24-2008
- Beware Coin Ads in General Magazines, Newspapers • 5-17-2008
- The Elusive 1910 'VDB' Cent • 5-10-2008
- Directors of the U.S. Mint, 1792-2008 • 5-3-2008
- U.S. Assay Commission Medals • 4-26-2008
- Fort Knox, America's Gold Vault • 4-19-2008
- John J. Ford, Collector Extraordinaire • 4-12-2008
- Why Not Gold? • 4-5-2008
- Ronald Reagan's Birthday Gift • 3-29-2008
- To Clean or Not To Clean • 3-22-2008
- Tokens of the Patrick Mint • 3-15-2008
- Mike Aron and the Smaller Coin Auction • 3-8-2008
- Readers Write • 3-1-2008
- The Fabulous Five — 1913 'V' Nickels • 2-23-2008
- The Fabulous King Farouk Sale of 1954 • 2-16-2008
- Celebrating a Personal Milestone • 2-9-2008
- What to Collect, Hoard or Save • 2-2-2008
- 1922: A Very Weak Year • 1-26-2008
- Sterling Rachootin, Modern Renaissance Collector • 1-19-2008
- Chief Engravers of the U.S. Mint, Part 2: 1917-1990 • 1-12-2008
- Chief Engravers of the U.S. Mint, Part 1: 1793-1917 • 1-5-2008
- How Many Love Tokens Are There? • 12-29-2007
- The 'Bible' of United States Tokens • 12-22-2007
- Counterfeiting is Not New • 12-15-2007
- 1964: Big Year for Numismatics • 12-8-2007
- Collecting Proof Sets, 1968-1998 • 12-1-2007
- Collecting Proof Sets, 1936-1964 • 11-24-2007
- The 1974 Aluminum Cents • 11-17-2007
- What is a Short Snorter? • 11-10-2007
- The First True Coins • 11-3-2007
- Our Less-Than-Common Money • 10-27-2007
- John Adams Bolen, Medallist • 10-20-2007
- The Mint's Last Experiment with Aluminum • 10-13-2007
- Making the Coin Club Circuit • 10-6-2007
- Some Interesting E-mails • 9-29-2007
- Old-timers Remember the 'Good Old Days' • 9-22-2007
- America's Longest Running Coin Design • 9-15-2007
- In Search of the Perfect Grading Scheme • 9-8-2007
- Q&A: We Get Mail • 9-1-2007
- DuPont Heist: Mystery Solved • 8-25-2007
- Kids Collecting Coins in the 1930s • 8-18-2007
- The Good Old Days: Abe Kosoff • 8-11-2007
- The Years the Mint Slowed Down • 8-4-2007
- 'Red Book' Turns 60 • 7-28-2007
- Coin Auctions Hit New Highs • 7-21-2007
- Cashless Society Coming? • 7-14-2007
- Massachusetts Silver Coinage, 1652-1682 • 7-7-2007
- Funny Money — or Not? • 6-30-2007
- Coin Discoveries In Your Own Home • 6-23-2007
- Our Future Coins and Paper Money • 6-16-2007
- The Coin Club Renaissance Years, 1960-1980 • 6-9-2007
- Are Coins a Good Investment? • 6-2-2007
- Rapscallions and Their Rip-offs • 5-26-2007
- The First Coins of the U.S.A. • 5-19-2007
- Coins of Our World Fairs and Expos, Pt. 2 • 5-5-2007
- Coins of Our World Fairs and Expos, Pt. 1 • 4-28-2007
- The Vanishing JFK Halves • 4-21-2007
- Bring Back the Really Big Bills • 4-14-2007
- Lincoln Cent Society Turns 25 • 4-7-2007
- By the Roll: Paper or Plastic for Your Coins? • 3-31-2007
- When Buffaloes Were New • 3-24-2007
- Is Older Really Better? • 3-17-2007
- Printing Errors and Such • 3-10-2007
- Coins in the Classroom • 3-3-2007
- Check the Date, Mintmark and Variety Before You Sell • 2-17-2007
- Boom and Bust: WSC Coin Shows, 1975-82 • 2-10-2007
- A Coin Tradition: The Bid Board • 1-27-2007
- Remembering America's Bicentennial Coinage • 1-20-2007
- The Rare and Coveted 'CC' Mintmark • 1-6-2007
- Hot on the Trail of Funny Money • 12-30-2006
- Mint to Produce Non-silver Dollars Again • 12-23-2006
- Q&A: Is My 1943/1942 Cent Genuine? • 12-16-2006
- It's a Good Time to Start Collecting State Quarters • 12-9-2006
- Coin Collecting in the Old Days, 1937-45 • 12-2-2006
- 1955: A Banner Numismatic Year • 11-25-2006
- More Overseas Coin Hunting Exploits • 11-18-2006
- The Lesher Dollars • 11-11-2006
- Tales From the Vault • 11-4-2006
- Hawaiian Coins and Tokens • 10-28-2006
- Coin Hunting Overseas • 10-21-2006
- Coins the Mint Called Back • 10-14-2006
- Tokens Fetch High Prices at Auction • 10-7-2006
- America's First Gold Coins • 9-30-2006
- Jeff Oxman, Silver Dollar Expert • 9-23-2006
- Coin Stories from 1964 • 9-16-2006
- What Are My Old Coins Worth? • 9-9-2006
- The Infamous Utah Counterfeiter, Mark Hofmann • 9-2-2006
- Fabulous Money Exhibit at Denver Convention • 8-26-2006
- Our First 5-Cent Nickel Coinage • 8-19-2006
- America's Littlest Coin • 8-12-2006
- Maybe FEMA Should Have Issued Tokens • 8-5-2006
- Indian Peace Medals: Collectible Goodwill • 7-29-2006
- Coins Used for Advertising • 7-22-2006
- Slave Tags: Windows to a Dark Past • 7-15-2006
- Selling Your Rare Coins • 7-8-2006
- Answers to More of Your Coin Questions • 7-1-2006
- Elongateds: Squished Cent Collectibles • 6-24-2006
- National Coin Week: A Trip Down Memory Lane • 6-17-2006
- Your Questions: From 'V' Nickels to 1780 Thalers • 6-10-2006
- Answers to Your Recent Coin Questions • 5-27-2006
- No Cents or Nonsense? • 5-20-2006
- Wampum: American-Made Money • 5-13-2006
- 'How Do I Invest in Coins?' • 5-6-2006
- Coins Show Who Really Discovered America • 4-29-2006
- They're Nice, But They're Counterfeit • 4-22-2006
- What Are Grandma's Old Coins Worth? • 4-15-2006
- Counterfeits: Buyer Beware • 4-8-2006
- Our Modern Commemorative Coins, 1976 to Date • 4-1-2006
- Our Original Commemoratives, 1892-1954 • 3-25-2006
- Would You Stop to Pick Up a Penny? • 3-18-2006
- A Fun Activity: Thematic Collecting • 3-11-2006
- Buying or Selling Coins? Go to a Show • 3-4-2006
- Seen Any 1943 'Steelies' Lately? • 2-25-2006
- Do Mint Rolls Have Investment Potential? • 2-18-2006
- What is a Mint Error Worth? • 2-11-2006
- Don't Tell Me You've Found a 1959-D 'Wheatie' • 2-4-2006
- The Famous "V" Nickel Mavericks • 1-28-2006
- 300th Birthday Retrospective: The Coinage of Ben Franklin • 1-21-2006
- 1792: Our First Federal Coinage • 1-14-2006
- Our Silver Coinage From 1836-1891 • 1-7-2006
- On the Lookout for Repunched Mint Marks • 12-31-2005
- America's Half Cent, 1793-1857 • 12-24-2005
- What is the Ideal Birthday or Holiday Gift? • 12-17-2005
- Was There Really a Naked Lady on a U.S. Coin? • 12-10-2005
- What Is My Coin Worth? • 12-3-2005
- Numismatic Giant: Maurice M. Gould, 1909-1975 • 11-26-2005
- More Answers to Your Coin Questions • 11-19-2005
- America's 2-Cent Piece • 11-12-2005
- Walking Liberties: A Handsome Half-Dollar Series • 11-5-2005
- The Standing Liberty Quarter, 1916-1930 • 10-29-2005
- The Red Book: The Numismatist's Bible • 10-22-2005
- Where Do They Make Our Coins? • 10-15-2005
- Coins Featured on U.S. Stamps • 10-8-2005
- Beware Buying Coins at Swap Meets, Garage Sales • 10-1-2005
- California Gold in Small Denominations • 9-24-2005
- American Icon: The Buffalo Nickel • 9-17-2005
- Answers to Your Coin Questions • 9-10-2005
- Franklin Half Dollars: Rock Steady • 9-3-2005
- Assembling a Complete Modern Type Set • 8-27-2005
- Barber's Silver Coinage: Fun Series to Collect • 8-20-2005
- Longacre's Indian Head Cent • 8-13-2005
- George T. Morgan's Fabulous Silver Dollar • 8-6-2005
- Collecting Jeffersons With Ease • 7-30-2005
- Learning Experience: Numismatic Summer Camp • 7-24-2005
- Bold New Design: The 'Mercury' Dime • 7-16-2005
- U.S. Coins Change for Wartime • 7-9-2005
- 1960: Small Problem Leads to Large Amount of Variety • 7-2-2005
- Is It a Coin, Medal or Token? • 6-25-2005
- Remembering When Kennedy Halves Were New • 6-18-2005
- The Famous 1943 Copper Cents • 6-11-2005
- United States Proof Coinage • 6-4-2005
- True Tales of Hidden Treasure • 5-28-2005
- Collecting Coins from Pocket Change • 5-21-2005
- Tokens of Hard Times • 5-14-2005
- New Designs for Jefferson Nickels • 5-7-2005
- The 50-State Quarters Program • 4-30-2005
- The Finer Points of Coin Grading • 4-23-2005
- Coins of the Kingdom of Hawaii • 4-16-2005
- Coins of the Colonies • 4-9-2005
- Where Have All the Silver Coins Gone? • 4-2-2005
- Collecting Lincoln Cent Varieties • 3-26-2005
- U.S. Coins of the Philippines • 3-19-2005
- VDB's New Lincoln Cent • 3-12-2005
- Our Odd-denomination Coins • 3-5-2005
- Twenty 'Centsible' Facts • 12-2004
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