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Money Meanderings

An Introduction to Numismatics

Contents

Cover page
Introduction
How to view this book
System requirements

Elgin Coin Club
    History of the Elgin Coin Club
    500th Meeting Souvenir Bill
    Elgin Coin Club Tokens
    Value Comparisons 1956-1996
Cents
    Pennies, er, Cents
    Flying Eagle Cent
    Lincoln Cent
    Lincoln Meets the Public
    1943 Steel Cent
    A Horde of Five Thousand Cents
Two and Three Cents
    Two Cent Piece
    Nickel Three Cent Piece
Nickels
    Indian Head - Buffalo Nickel
    Wartime Nickels
    Jefferson Nickel
Dimes
    Seated Liberty Dime
    Fasces
    Pig on the Bridge?
Quarters
    Barber Quarter
    Liberty Standing Quarter
    Pennsylvania Quarter Error
    Does the eagle have feet of a duck?
Half Dollars
    Walking Liberty Half Dollar
    Elgin Centenial Half Dollar
    Illinois Centennial Half Dollar
Dollars
    Morgan Dollars Melted
    1964 Peace Dollar
    The New Dollar - A Survey
Gold
    Indian Head Quarter Eagle
Colonial
    Continental Dollar/Cent
    Bar Copper
    Fugio Cent
    Time Table of Colonial Coins
Currency
    Fractional Currency
    George Smith's Certificates of Deposit
    Banking in the 1850s with The City Bank
    Chicago Paper Money Exposition - 1997
Tokens
    Hard Times Tokens
    Conder Tokens
Ancient
    The Roman As
    Roman Denarius For Face Value
    The Byzantine Follis

Foreign
  Africa
      The Eritrean Nakfa
      New Eritrean Coins
      Ethiopia's Money
  Asia
      City on a Coin - Mewar's Udaipur
      The Coins of the Philippines
  Europe
      Maria Theresa Thaler
      Sicilian Coin Coin Collections
      Coins from My AD-Æ Collection
  Australia
      The Tasmanian Devil
      Water Used as Money
  Other
      Coins of Hawaii
      A Bag of Coins and ...
Education
    ANA Summer Seminar, July, 1998
        Part 1,     Part 2,     Part 3,     Epilog
    Science of Numismatics Symposium
    ANA Summer Seminar, 1996
    Where Did You Learn About That?
Quizes
    Where in the World?
    World Population Quiz
Minting
    A Visit to the Denver Mint
    The Minting Process
    Lowest Mintages of the Century
Dennis Kwas' A Little of This ... A Little of That
    Beginnings
    Jefferson Nickel
    Canadian Coins
    No Crowds No Keys
    Silver Spike
    Collecting Everything
    Buy High, Sell Low?
    NOISE, Lemont, and Canadian Coin Storage
Personal Stories
    The Cernys
    Dennis Kwas
    Mike Metras
    The Excitement of Coin Collecting
Other Things
    News Bits
    Books, Etc.
    St. Eligius - Patron Saint of Coin Collectors
    Old On New: Design Changes
    The New Circulating Coins
    Why 4' 8-1/2"?
    Coin of the Realm
    What Happened in 1996?

Bibliography -- Sources

Index


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