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Have you ever wondered where the word “farthing” comes from? It’s one of those curious names in British coinage history that hides a story nearly a thousand years old. To understand it, we need to travel back to the medieval world of hammered coinage – where coins weren’t struck by machine, but by hand. The […]

V & E Coin News – Have you ever wondered where the word “farthing” comes from? It’s one of those curious names in British coinage history that hides a story nearly a thousand years old. To understand it, we need to travel back to the medieval world of hammered coinage – where coins weren’t struck

V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – Have you ever wondered where the word “farthing” comes from? It’s one of those curious names in British coinage history that hides a story nearly a thousand years old. To understand it, we need to travel back to the medieval world of hammered

V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – Have you ever wondered where the word “farthing” comes from? It’s one of those curious names in British coinage history that hides a story nearly a thousand years old. To understand it, we need to travel back

1892 Columbian Half Dollar Hoard. Image: Jeff Garrett. By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek… One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Vance LaRue Wilson, a 40-year-old Iowan, attended the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. For many attendees, the Chicago World’s Fair was their first time seeing a Ferris Wheel, electric lights, automatic dishwashers, moving pictures, or

V & E Coin News – 1892 Columbian Half Dollar Hoard. Image: Jeff Garrett. By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek… One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Vance LaRue Wilson, a 40-year-old Iowan, attended the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. For many attendees, the Chicago World’s Fair was their first time seeing a Ferris Wheel, electric

V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – 1892 Columbian Half Dollar Hoard. Image: Jeff Garrett. By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek… One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Vance LaRue Wilson, a 40-year-old Iowan, attended the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. For many attendees, the Chicago World’s Fair was their first

V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – 1892 Columbian Half Dollar Hoard. Image: Jeff Garrett. By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek… One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Vance LaRue Wilson, a 40-year-old Iowan, attended the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. For many attendees, the

V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – 1892 Columbian Half Dollar Hoard. Image: Jeff Garrett. By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek… One hundred and thirty-two years ago, Vance LaRue Wilson, a 40-year-old Iowan, attended the World’s Columbian Exposition in

V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – V & E Coin News – As Wes told me in a conversation regarding coins and the world around us on the way home yesterday, “I have no interest in the politics. I just want to play