LEARN MORE ABOUT NUMISMATICS
General Numismatics
Coin Today: Daily
numismatic and gold investment news
Coin Collecting
Basics: This article covers the
maning and scope of numismatics, what to collect, interesting facts, top
books, cleaning coins (don't do this) and more
Organizing and displaying a coin collection
Dollars and Cents
Fundamental facts about US Money: Types of paper money; currency
features, US Coins; circulation of money; spotting counterfeit money;
features and more
Glossary of Numismatic Terms
H.I.P.
Pocket Change U. S. Mint
H.I.P. (History In your Pocket) is a site from the US Mint that seeks to
build an interest in coins as artifacts of history. Aimed at younger
users and teachers, the site offers a section for each constituency. The
Kids section provides information on starting a coin collection, a
virtual tour of the mint (not yet available), a time machine adventure,
and several learning games
Rare
Coin Museum
Tour the premier on-line museum for U.S. Mint rare
coins to learn all about coin collecting. You’ll see collector coins
from Liberty gold coins, Saint-Gaudens gold, Indian Head gold coins to
silver dollars
Where's George? Ever wonder where your money is traveling after it leaves
your hands?
This site tracks the life of the bills that leave your wallet and are
put into circulation around the country. All you have to do is set up a
free account at the site, "register" your bills by entering the serial
number and state of origin, then print the site's Web address on the
bill and spend it! The idea is that people will see the URL on the bill,
go to the site and re-register the bill, thus tracking its path. If you
don't feel like getting that involved, it's still cool to see where
other bills have traveled - like the $2 bill that was registered in
Florida and made its way up the East Coast to New Hampshire.
Redeeming coins & bills
Shredded & mutilated money
The Goverment Redeems Damaged Currency
What happens to damaged bills
- written for kids, this is an easy visual on damaged paper money
What
happens to damaged coins
According to the US Treasury website, here's what you can do.
Q: I have some coins that were damaged and the bank will not
redeem them. What can I do with them?
A: The Treasury Department has prescribed regulations regarding
uncurrent and mutilated coins. Let us explain the difference. Uncurrent
coins are whole, but are worn or reduced in weight by natural abrasion.
They are easily recognizable as to genuineness and denomination, and
they are such that coin sorting and counting machines will accept them.
Merchants and commercial banks will generally accept or refuse these
coins at their discretion. However, Federal Reserve Banks and branches
handle the redemption of uncurrent coins.
Mutilated coins, on the other hand, are coins that are bent, broken, not
whole, or fused or melted together. The United States Mint is the only
place that handles redemption of mutilated coins, and they should be
sent to the Mint at Post Office Box 400, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Coins
Coin Link
Ancients, World Coins, US Coins, Currency
and numismatic resources
United
States Coins of the 20th Century, Courtesy of Eric
Leonard
History of the Motto "In God We
Trust"
New York's Better Business Bureau - Coin
Collecting
U.S. Mint "How Coins Are Made"
U.S. Mint
U.S. Mint 50 State Quarters Program
U.S.Mint "The New Dollar Coin"
Free
Historical Information on U.S. Coin Series
A
Buying Guide to Coins
Searching for Sacagaweas
The Buffalo Is Back
Coins of Colonial and Early America
A catalog and historical essay on the coins of colonial and early
America from wampum and Massachusetts silver through the provisional
half dime of 1792. The catalog contains over 275 coins divided by coin
types. Each section contains an introductory essay reflecting recent
scholarship followed by full color high-quality jpeg images and
descriptions for each coin
Mardi Gras Doubloons
Unique to New Orleans, here is a Crescent City Coin Club member's
perspective on a great local hobby.
Currency
Collecting Rare Currency
Collecting Silver Certificates
American Currency
Exhibit at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Money hasn't
always looked like it does today. Explore the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit online and watch history come
alive as you step back in time to our nation's beginning. Learn how our
country's rich history is closely tied with our currency. Discover the
role the Federal Reserve has played--and continues to play--in that
history
Bureau of Engraving & Printing has a wealth of information to
download: About BEP, BEP History and Currency Notes
Colonial Currency
A catalog
featuring hundreds of examples of colonial paper currency
with supplementary sections on colonial lottery tickets
and fiscal documents. Currency examples range from the
New York issue of May 31, 1709 to the fractional currency
privately emitted in the 1790's during the copper panic.
Emissions are listed under the colony of issue followed
by Continental Congress issues. There are a number of
notes printed by Benjamin Franklin and several
Massachusetts examples by Paul Revere. The site also
includes explanatory essays on such topics as the first
paper currency emission in the colonies, the relative
value of local money in the colonies and land bank notes.
The lottery section contains a ticket from the first
government sponsored lottery in the colonies, the
Massachusetts 1744-45 lottery, Department of Special
Collections University of Notre Dame Libraries.
Consumer’s Guide To Investing and
Collecting U.S. Currency
Prepared as a Public Service By Treasures of Antiquity,
Inc.with the United States Postal Inspection Service
History
of Paper Money
How Currency Works
International Bank Note Society
New Currency Designs
Old Bank Notes
Paper Money Collecting
Society of Paper Money Collectors
Ugly Money
If you'd like to see a very interesting and informative site
about paper money that has been stamped or written on, check out either
of these sites.
Johnny Bitter, aka
Johnny Burrito
has done a fantastic job with the display.
Confederate
Currency
Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate
Currency
Confederate
Currency: The Color of Money
University of Notre Dame CSA (unlinked
pictures)
preliminary scans of some CSA notes
Tokens
Collecting U.S. Tokens: Challenges &
Rewards
The Ultimate
Guide to Exonumia Links & Resources.
Washington
Tokens Link
in the Department
of Special Collections
University of Notre Dame Libraries
Index of Tokens
Department of Special Collections University of Notre
Dame Libraries, Future Exhibits
Collections of Confederate Currency
and 19th Century American token collection. To view several hundred of
our unlinked token images go here.
Foreign
Coins
Perseus Coin Collections
A
collection of
ancient coin digital images at the Perseus Project comes
from the Dewing Numismatic Foundation. 452 Greek coins
from this collection are currently on loan to the Harvard
Art Museum and are now offered digitally at the Perseus Project. Images
of the coins are offered in three resolutions. Catalog entries for the
coins include material, denomination, mint, region, issuing authority
(when known), actual weight, diameter, and a description of the type and
legend on either side of the coin
Sasanian,
Hunnic, Indian and Islamic Coins and History of Asia
Containing information and
scans of over 1100 coins, these pages are to be a
resource for students of Near Eastern, Persian, Indian,
Central Asian and Chinese history from 600 BC to 1600 AD.
Permanent exhibits with emphasis on Sasanian, Hunnic,
Indian and Islamic coinages
Studying and Collecting the Coins of
Rome and Her Cities
Publications
We Read
Bank Note Reporter
Casino Chip & Token News
Collector Magazine & Price Guide
Coin Dealer Newsletter
Coin
World
Currency Dealer Newsletter
Errorscope
The Fare Box
Hoppy Talk
Kovel's Online
Price Guide
The Numismatist
Numismatic
News
Paper Money Collector
Paper Money Newsletter
TAMS, Token & Medal Society Journal
Numismatic Associations & Societies
The American Numismatic
Association
ANA Member Clubs Directory Information
American
Numismatic Association's FTP SITE
This site includes
image files, over 1,000 "Money
Talks" radio scripts, a Library Catalog supplement,
Numismatic Indexes Project files, Press Releases and
Software - (ANA members only).
Newsgroups
Newsgroup
for Paper Money Collectors
Newsgroup
for Coin Collectors
Internet Directory of Publications
Looking
For More Information?
Your local
library, online library resources, and trade
publications will help to further your own
education in numismatics. Materials can be found in the
following sections of the library.
On-Line Library Catalogs
United States Public Libraries
The
Library of Congress categorizes the subject as:
1-6661 Numismatics
1-4625 Coins
153
Finds of coins
161
Symbols, devices, etc.
201-1397 Ancient
1509-4625
Medieval and modern
4801-5450 Tokens
4861-4889
By period
4901-5336
By region or country
5350-5450
Special uses of tokens
5501-6661 Medals and medallions
5581-5690
Ancient
5723-5793
Medieval and modern
5795-6661 By region or
country
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