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The value of the presidential inaugural medals has fluctuated over the years and is highly influenced by auctions and the current U.S. economy. For example, in 1980 there was the Great Gold and Silver Panic when silver was worth $50 per ounce and gold worth $800 per ounce.
A Guide Book of Washington and State Quarters. Atlanta, Georgia: Whitman Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7948-2059-6. Duffield, Frank (uncredited) (April 1929). "Another commemorative half-dollar this year". The Numismatist. American Numismatic Association: 236– 237. (subscription required)
A Guide Book of United States Coins (the Red Book) is the longest running price guide for U.S. coins. Across all formats, 24 million copies have been sold. [2] The first edition, dated 1947, went on sale in November 1946. Except for a one-year hiatus in 1950, publication has continued to the present.
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The Token and Medal Society was founded on November 19, 1960, in Detroit and formally incorporated on April 8, 1966. [1] Among the founding members were well-known numismatists Q. David Bowers, Clifford Mishler, and Russell Rulau. [2] TAMS encompasses a wide range of material, including civil war tokens, hard times tokens, subway tokens and ...
The 50 State Quarters program was initially inspired by a 1992 Royal Canadian Mint program, "Canada 125", marking the 125th anniversary of the country's Confederation with a series of commemorative 25-cent pieces representing each of its 12 (at the time) provinces and territories.
Civil War tokens are token coins that were privately minted and distributed in the United States between 1861 and 1864. They were used mainly in the Northeast and Midwest . The widespread use of the tokens was a result of the scarcity of government-issued cents during the Civil War .
A rare letter written entirely by George Washington himself back in 1778 was given a presidential price tag on Monday's episode of "Antiques Roadshow." And the auction estimate is... "$30,000 to ...