It is most common for collectors to purchase their coins from coin dealers, mail-order,auctions, etc. When I was growing up, there was no Ebay as the Internet hadn’t yet evolved. Coin shops were far and few...
EXONUMIA Defined: "Exo-numia": "Exo-" or "Out-of", and "Numia" or "Numis", numismatic or a coin. Thus EXONUMIA basically refers to coin-like objects, such as tokens and medals. It has been expanded to include...
Years ago growing up as a poor young boy in Pennsylvania, I would often fantasize about having a magic carpet or a time machine to go back to a world long gone. A time machine or a magic carpet would be the...