We have entered a new political era. For the past 40 years or so, we lived in the information age. Those of us in the educated class decided, with some justification, that the postindustrial ...

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A vague outline of the eagle and a few denticles remain on the reverse of the 1792 Flowing Hair half disme. The popularity of “low-ball” collecting boosted the price realized for a heavily ...

Marcus said in early January he was surfing a social media site on which the 1792 half disme was illustrated by the Washington collector with multiple photos and seeking opinions on what he might ...

The Coinage Act of 1792—more commonly known as the Mint Act ... Dollars (or units), half dollars, quarter dollars, disme (the early form of the dime), and half disme were minted from silver ...

Was the term “disme” used to identify coin denominations after 1792? The names “half dime” and “dime” were used to identify our 5- and 10-cent denominations as soon as the official coinages began in ...

For more than 150 years, the question of the 1792 half disme has interested numismatists. In particular, there have been debates about the exact role played by President George Washington in the ...

Fun fact: In the Coinage Act of 1792, the dime was referred to as the "disme," and that term is printed on the 1792 copper disme...er, dime. The Civil War had a radical effect on U.S. currency ...

Leading the sale was the world’s finest 1792 Silver Disme, graded AU50 PCGS Secure. As one of just three known examples, the coin had previously been part of the renowned collections of Dr. J. Hewitt ...

“Those are followed by a circulation issue half disme produced before the mint was completed, finishing with an early regular mint issue half cent." Leading the sale will be a 1792 Copper Disme, one ...