Archive

Each story's web address carries its issue date. The byline shows when the story was first published and, if it has been revised since, when it was last updated.

• 2026-10-25: Maria Theresa thaler: 1780 on a coin made for later centuries
• 2026-10-24: Twenty-cent piece: a five-gram coin with a four-year run
• 2026-10-23: German mark: gold defined in law, paper described in practice
• 2026-10-23: American coins: the portrait rules Congress actually enacted
• 2026-10-21: The 1913 Liberty nickel: unauthorized production and identifiable survivors
• 2026-10-21: Euro coin designs: shared maps and national symbols
• 2026-10-19: Doubled die: the 1955 cent and the marks in its tooling
• 2026-10-19: Trade dollar: the statutes behind a dollar that lost its tender status
• 2026-10-16: Shekel weights: stones, silver and Babylonian payments
• 2026-10-14: Mercury dime: Liberty in the dies and in the law