One of the smaller impacts of JFK’s assassination is that the government put his image on half dollar coins beginning in 1964. Those coins permanently replaced the Benjamin Franklin 50-cent ...

Coin collecting may have been a niche hobby in times past, but an increased interest in numismatics -- whether due to macroeconomic pressures creating a swell of people looking for a valuable ...

“Some historians believe Benjamin Franklin designed the coin ... as the ‘King of the Morgans,’ the 1895 Morgan Dollar is a proof coin with an incredibly low mintage of just 880 ...