Southern secession began on December 20, 1860. Abraham Lincoln's election victory, carried entirely by voters in the northern states, convinced pro-slavery southerners that the...
The Mint's First Attempt to Bring Back the Silver Dollar
The suspension of silver dollar production was lifted in 1831 under United States Mint Director...
The 1970-D Kennedy Half Dollar was the last of the regular-strike silver-clad half dollars and the last Kennedy half intended for circulation that contained...