My Two Cents’ Worth: A Golden Year

Where were you when COINage first came out? Unless you’re now 50 or older, it’s likely that you weren’t even born yet— for this magazine hit the stands for the very first time not quite half a...

January’s Coinage Kids

Find and identify the words about the Winter Olympics in the grid. Then mail your completed quiz to January Quiz, COINage magazine, P.O. Box 7030, Ventura, CA 93006-9899.

December’s Coinage Kids: Double Puzzle

Each of the clue words was taken directly from this month’s COINage. Unscramble each of the clue words, then place the letters in the numbered cells into the cells at right with the same...

My Two Cents’ Worth: A Tribute to a Treasured Curator

Recently, the curatorial staff of the Numismatic Collection came up with the idea of freshening it, and strengthening weaker areas, by launching a new endow- ment fund in the name of Richard G. Doty,...

October 2013 Issue

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My Two Cents’ Worth: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose

Two heads are better than one, so they say—but two heads plus two tails might turn out to be a case of subtraction by addition. That’s what I fear would happen if Congress adopted the ill-conceived...

Coinage Kids:

The bald eagle first appeared as an American symbol on the Massachusetts copper cents and half cents coined in 1787 and 1788. Since then, it has appeared on the reverse of many U.S. coins,...