http://www.coinweblog.com The Coin Blog. Information For Your Collection Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:54:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The California Gold Rush began on Jan. 24, 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutter´s Mill, in Coloma, California. News of the discovery soon spread, resulting in some 300,000 people coming to California. These early gold-seekers, called "forty-niners," traveled by boat & in covered wagons. The ... http://www.coinweblog.com/2010/02/03/california-gold-rush-coin/ Way back in 1997, an act was approved and it was called Fifty State Quarter Program. The program started in that same year and it is still running up to present. The Act is quite popular and in fact, it is the most well-known minted series of coins in the ... http://www.coinweblog.com/2009/02/14/coin-collecting-and-the-state-quarters-by-faye-bautista/   In June of 1963, at the height of the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy delivered a famous speech to the people of West Germany, the democratic half of a country torn in two after World War II. JFKdelivered his memorable speech to a cheering crowd at the site of ... http://www.coinweblog.com/2008/09/24/john-f-kennedy-berlin-wall-stone-inlay/ There are many teachings, conventional wisdom, in the coin collecting arena that are merely myths and fallacies that have been handed down over many years. Recognizing these fallacies and myths are not always easy. Here are some key ones with a collector perspective backed by many years of questioning strong ... http://www.coinweblog.com/2008/08/28/coin-collecting-myths-part-1-by-larry-e-smith/ To celebrate the return of Tutankhamun's glorious treasures to the London "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibition, this legal tender coin was specially struck. There is no more powerful symbol of Ancient Egypt and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs than the Pyramid. These massive and mysterious ... http://www.coinweblog.com/2008/07/30/the-worlds-first-pyramid-coin/ Individuals have been collecting coins for over two thousand years and it is believed that coin collecting is oldest hobby known. Some individuals feel as if coin collecting is a hobby while others view it as their driving force in life. For all of them it is a challenging pastime, ... http://www.coinweblog.com/2008/07/04/searching-for-that-right-coin-by-victor-epand/