Background I have been buying and selling Columbia Exposition tickets for more than three decades. My special area of interest has been the Souvenir Portrait Tickets, although my interest certainly extends...
The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair),was held in the City of Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World. The...
Buying Slabbed COINS on Ebay??? BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!! I am revising, again,my ratings of graders for old Silver Commemoratives.These are the rare and intriguing coins minted from 1892 to 1955. Commemoratives...
The first United States commemorative coin was the Columbian half dollar designed by Olin Lewis Warner. C. E. Barber engraved the obverse showing the bust of Columbus: and G. T. Morgan engraved the reverse...
The 1925 Stone Mountail Memorial Half dollar was issued to Commemorate the begining of the carving of Stone Mountain in the state of Georgia on June 18th 1923, and to honor President Warren G Harding under...
US commemoratiave silver half dollars were first issued in 1892 for the Columbian Expositon World' s Fair. The last were issued in 1954. Most are readily available but certain ones are scarce in any grade such...
This Memorial coin was struck in commemoration of the Oregon Trail and in memory of the pioneers, many of whom lie buried along the famous 2,000 mile highway of history James Earle Fraser and his wife Laura...
The 1936 Columbia (SC) Sesquicentennial half dollar was authorized under the Mint Act of March 18 1926, which called for the production of no more than 25,000 coins. Mintages were 9,000 at the Philadelphia...
This is the first thing I've attempted to write on EBay, but I felt so passionately about it I couldn't NOT write it! I love coins. I'm a tad obsessive. I spend countless hours looking and studying. And...