Author: Harley J. Spiller
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
American Police Collectibles
Author: Matthew G. Forte
Publisher: Turn of the Century Publish
ISBN: 9780966593839
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Turn of the Century Publish
ISBN: 9780966593839
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Keep the Change
Author: Harley J. Spiller
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
A Memorial Discourse
Author: Henry Highland Garnet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Confident Carson City Coin Collector
Author: Rusty Goe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974616940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
Book Description
Rusty Goe's new three-volume set, The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, provides a time-capsule glimpse of all the knowledge available for discovery about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that have survived from that place leading up to the 150th anniversary (2020) of the mint's opening in January 1870. Just about anything anyone would want to know about the mint and its coins can be found in these three volumes. Three hardback volumes, 8.5" x 11" in dimensions. The page count for all three volumes is approximately 2,500. Color images fill numerous pages; at least one zoomed image (obverse and reverse) of all 111 date-denominations with the "CC" mintmark. Historical Setting narratives are included for every year of the Carson City Mint's coinmaking years (1870 - 1893). Coin Commentary sections provide extensive studies of all Carson City silver and gold date-denominations; surviving population data, pedigrees, pricing, and auction appearances are all updated as of year-end 2018. This three-volume set provides all that everyone wants to know about the Carson City Mint and its coins. The Confident Carson City Coin Collector will serve as the definitive reference work about the Carson City Mint and its coins for decades to come.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974616940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
Book Description
Rusty Goe's new three-volume set, The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, provides a time-capsule glimpse of all the knowledge available for discovery about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that have survived from that place leading up to the 150th anniversary (2020) of the mint's opening in January 1870. Just about anything anyone would want to know about the mint and its coins can be found in these three volumes. Three hardback volumes, 8.5" x 11" in dimensions. The page count for all three volumes is approximately 2,500. Color images fill numerous pages; at least one zoomed image (obverse and reverse) of all 111 date-denominations with the "CC" mintmark. Historical Setting narratives are included for every year of the Carson City Mint's coinmaking years (1870 - 1893). Coin Commentary sections provide extensive studies of all Carson City silver and gold date-denominations; surviving population data, pedigrees, pricing, and auction appearances are all updated as of year-end 2018. This three-volume set provides all that everyone wants to know about the Carson City Mint and its coins. The Confident Carson City Coin Collector will serve as the definitive reference work about the Carson City Mint and its coins for decades to come.
Works
Author: Isaac Disraeli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Objectivity
Author: David Usborne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500515013
Category : Industrial design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This miscellany of mysterious objects celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things. If you have ever thatched a roof, measured a skull, stuffed a rabbit or walked on a whale, you may well recognize some of these tools. If you haven't, but admire the work of, say, MirĂ³, Duchamp and Cornell, you will appreciate these accidental masterpieces of the everyday. These are the tools of life, some developed according to our basic human needs, some for less obvious ends, still others from vanishing trades, yet all display a beauty and meaning beyond their function. There is something in these objects that will touch the designer, artist, inventor or collector in us all.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500515013
Category : Industrial design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This miscellany of mysterious objects celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things. If you have ever thatched a roof, measured a skull, stuffed a rabbit or walked on a whale, you may well recognize some of these tools. If you haven't, but admire the work of, say, MirĂ³, Duchamp and Cornell, you will appreciate these accidental masterpieces of the everyday. These are the tools of life, some developed according to our basic human needs, some for less obvious ends, still others from vanishing trades, yet all display a beauty and meaning beyond their function. There is something in these objects that will touch the designer, artist, inventor or collector in us all.
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Stories From Princess Star
Author: Lee-Michael D'Souza
Publisher:
ISBN: 1393473334
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In a not too distant future, animals walk the Earth and work hand-in-hand with us humans on interplanetary ventures. There exists harmony and good-will amongst all the sentient species, but despite this, the Earth and its colonies still suffer from technology, politics, war and wealth. With radically different governments across known space, and with greater powers lurking behind the scenes, civilisation as we know it is being redesigned. Join each animal in their story as their world's machinations and intricacies unravel before their very eyes. This short novel will spark your intrigue as you delve into a radical future world, somewhat similar, but critically different, from our own Earth today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1393473334
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In a not too distant future, animals walk the Earth and work hand-in-hand with us humans on interplanetary ventures. There exists harmony and good-will amongst all the sentient species, but despite this, the Earth and its colonies still suffer from technology, politics, war and wealth. With radically different governments across known space, and with greater powers lurking behind the scenes, civilisation as we know it is being redesigned. Join each animal in their story as their world's machinations and intricacies unravel before their very eyes. This short novel will spark your intrigue as you delve into a radical future world, somewhat similar, but critically different, from our own Earth today.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description