This coin was struck in 42 AD under Claudius, the 4th emperor of Roman Empire, and it depicts Augustus (d. 14 AD) on the obverse. On the reverse is Livia, who was Augustus' wife and the most powerful woman in the Roman Republic, often acting as...
This 500 wu shu cash coin, dated c. 7-10AD, is a modern, post Qing Dynasty replica of knife money originating from China. The obverse of the replica bears the Chinese characters Qui Dao Wu Bai meaning “Qi knife five hundred” and the reverse is...
This coin is a modern replica of a spade coin which circulated under the usurper Wang Mang (7-23 AD). In Chinese numismatics, modern means post Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912 AD). It is a replica because it imitates an actually circulated coin....
This spade coin, with a broken hole on top, is the result of monetary reform under Wang Mang (7-23 AD). On its reverse, the coin says “Huo Bu” and the reverse is blank. This coin was issued during Wang Mang’s fifth reform. Its equivalent...
Andrew Buck was a member of the Amphictyon Literary Society while a student at Hillsdale College. He wrote several letters to the Amphictyons while he was serving with the 1st Michigan. He was a first a student in 1859 and returned to Hillsdale...
In this letter to his sister, Etta, Cornelius Hadley speaks with pride that after a very hard march where some of his men had blood pooling in their socks, only four out of ninety fell out of the march. Cornelius is now a Lt. Col in Co H of one of...
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Captain Thomas DeKay Kimball, Jr. enlisted as a private in 1862 in Company I, 88th Indiana Infantry. He took part in the battles of Perrysville and Stone River. He was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga. He was imprisoned at Libby Prison,...
