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Collectors of world coins are familiar with the acronym “OFEC,” meaning the pursuit of collecting “one from every country.” A recent discovery in an old storage unit reminded me that I was once an OFEC collector. Sealed for more than 20 years in a cardboard box, my first coin album is filled with 2x2s holding … Read more

My wife is quick to remind me that I have expensive tastes in travel. I do, without shame, believe in the “swing for the fences” theory of vacationing, whereas she prefers to “walk in a run,” meaning for her, heading to the nearest beach or kid-friendly destination. Each spring I unceremoniously and ingloriously propose the … Read more

Tara Crosby who is the recipient of the 2014 Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) Young Numismatist Scholarship will be speaking at the November 15 club meeting. Crosby is a communications student from Alpharetta at Georgia Perimeter College. As the scholarship’s winner, Crosby attended the American Numismatic Association (ANA) Summer Seminar courtesy of PNG. She took the … Read more

Do you wash your car? We do! After we wash our car at a local car wash, we vacuum it. We always find change near the car wash’s vacuum stations and trash cans. Just last week, we collected 28 cents. Typically, I take it home and put it in our coin bucket. But, this time I was … Read more

I reached an important milestone in my collection last month. After years of focusing exclusively on European coinage, I purchased—somewhat hesitantly—my first United States coin; a raw, circulated 1952 Washington-Carver Half Dollar. The alphabetized spreadsheet of my collection, which I assumed would eternally end with “Switzerland” (coins of the former Yugoslavia are listed under its … Read more