Sign-ups will begin for the annual club Christmas / Holiday party at the October 18 meeting. The party will be held at 5 p.m., Marlow’s Tavern (1317 Dunwoody Village Parkway, Suite 102, Dunwoody), Sunday, December 14. This is the same restaurant the party was at as last year. Like last year, you can order anything off the menu, … Read more
Whitman Publishing announces the release of an expanded, updated second edition of the award-winning Guide Book of Civil War Tokens, by Q. David Bowers. The 512-page book will debut in December 2014, and will be available online (including at Whitman.com) and from bookstores and hobby shops nationwide. Its retail price is $39.95. It can also … Read more
Whitman Publishing has released the sixth edition of its expanded version of the best-selling Guide Book of United States Coins (known within the hobby as the “Red Book”). The 384-page volume, called the Professional Edition, is intended for intermediate and advanced collectors and investors, professional coin dealers, auctioneers, and numismatic researchers. It is available online … Read more
This time I will start with a couple of interesting items. First, researchers have developed a device that smells out money, preventing billions of dollars in cash from leaving our country across the border. It mimics a dog’s ability to sniff out the odor of money. The second item is from Japan. There is a bus stop … 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
As with everything this fall, this issue of my bi-monthly column suffers from scheduling problems and is not where it should be when it should be there. My bad. I demonstrate the same timing with my attendance at the last couple of meetings. My youngest daughter is a senior at UGA this year, so I’m … Read more