US Coins
1916 Standing Liberty Quarter: The 52,000-Coin Masterpiece That Still Starts Arguments
The 52,000-Coin Legend That Changed U.S. Coinage
The 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter entered American commerce like a rumor. The Philadelphia Mint struck just 52,000 pieces...
The First American Quarter: How the 1796 Draped Bust Quarter Beat Jefferson’s Decimal Dream
America’s First Quarter Was Almost Never Meant to Exist
Every quarter in America’s pocket has a strange ancestor.
It did not begin as the neat product...
1792 Copper Disme: The First U.S. Coin May Have Been a Dime That Wasn’t...
Did America’s First Coin Start in a Philadelphia Cellar?
The 1792 Copper Disme does not look loud. It does not need to.
It sits at the...