This aluminum-bronze two francs coin has an image of the god Mercury on the obverse and the denomination on the reverse.
After World War I, countries throughout Europe suffered from economic instability and inflation. Because of this instability,...
President Franklin Pierce in the Center, Commerce on the right, Ceres on the left
This railroad paper money was circulated by The Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Bank. It was chartered in March 1835 by the Michigan Legislative Council. It was established during the free banking era - when lots of scandals and cheats were setting up...
In the early 1800s, Canada had a coin shortage, so many companies and individuals minted tokens, usually in denominations of half pennies and pennies. Though there are many different varieties of tokens, the obverse of this token shows a sailing...
Al-Hakam II (961-976 AD) was the 2nd Umayyad Caliph of Cordoba, who succeeded his father Abd ar-rahman III.
When Cordoba was at the height of its flowering (Ninth and Tenth Centuries AD) there were over 200,000 houses in the city along with six...
This denarius was minted from 196 – 197 AD when Caracalla was Caesar. The obverse shows a bust of Caracalla, and the reverse shows Minerva, known in Greek mythology as Athena. Minerva, as shown on the reverse side, was the virgin goddess of...
The first coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver that occurred naturally in local rivers. In the 6th century BC, Croesus, king of Lydia, began to strike coins of solid gold and silver. Soon afterwards, cities and rulers all over...
The Amphictyon Society was a male literary society founded in 1857 at Hillsdale College. This is the first issue of a literary journal published by the society. Contributions were anonymous.
On July 4th, 1853, Edmund Fairfield, president of Michigan Central College, gave two speeches. The first was at the country fairgrounds and was entitled True National Greatness. The second remarks were at the laying of the cornerstone for...
