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COLUMN: The Basics of Coin Collection Valuations – A Look at Early Denominations

By David Yawn 

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth installment of a continuing series on the subject of coin values, collecting and trends in precious metals, beginning with basic treatments of the subject.  The series by this coin collection appraiser will build in detail over time. Stay tuned.


  It was always helpful when delivering lectures at retirement communities about the hobby of coin collecting to discuss not only the grades/conditions, mints and mintmarks, but also the various types of denominations we have seen in American coinage. This will provide a brief macro overview of these, starting with the 1800s and the smallest to largest denominations.   Coinage began in this country in the 1790s, but we will address the coin denominations created for the 19th and 20th centuries here.

For the complete column by contributing columnist David Yawn, see the May 3 edition of the Germantown News, out today. 

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