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CoinWeek Podcast #159: The Infamous 1933 Double Eagle (with David Tripp) Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic
My relationship with Ken dates back to 1974, the year I won a scholarship to attend the
ANA Summer Seminar. Ken sponsored my scholarship that year and I took his class on
United States Colonial coinage. I was only 16 at the time and had no idea that Ken would prove to be one of the most important numismatic mentors in my career. It would have been hard for me to imagine that I would later fill his shoes as Editor of the Red Book some 45 years later.
I began working on the Red Book around 15 years ago when my first numismatic book was published,
CoinWeek Podcast #157: The History of Numismatics
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The study of coins and non-coin objects–numismatics–traces its roots back to the ancient world and began with a study of non-current coins and medals, many pulled from the ground and brought to local experts and historians. Originally an academic pursuit, a branch of numismatics morphed into today’s hobby of coin collecting.
CoinWeek Ancients writer
PCGS. The official grading company of the world-famous
Tyrant Collection, perhaps the most expensive coin collection ever built. Where will the Tyrant Collection make its next appearance? A bird on my shoulder tells me perhaps the summer
CoinWeek Podcast #156: Money & Race: An American Story
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In this episode of the
CoinWeek Podcast, Charles and Chris talk to author and historian
Michael O’Malley about how issues of race and money commingle in real and sometimes even surprising ways. O’Malley is the author of a book titled
Face Value: The Entwined History of Money and Race in America – a powerful work that delves quite deeply into a number of numismatic topics, including the intrinsic monetary value of the human body, the depictions of black figures on Confederate paper money, 19th-century racial views on silver and gold, and more.