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The San Francisco Mint supposedly struck only 12 1875-S Proof Liberty Seated Twenty-Cent pieces. Only five are known today.

CoinWeek's own Mike Markowitz writes about Juno, the Roman queen of the gods, and the coins struck in her name under the Republic and Empire.

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   BORN IN 247 BCE at Carthage (near modern Tunis in North Africa), Hannibal Barca is remembered as one of the

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   AT THE BEGINNING of the 14th century (c. 1300 CE), Anatolia (modern Türkiye) was a patchwork of “beyliks”,

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   This reptile, as an image of divinity and of nature, is figured both in its natural shape, and under a variety

Ancient Counterfeiters and their counterfeit coinage has been with us and has been called the world’s “second oldest profession”

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   Apostate: (noun) a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc. REMEMBERED AS THE “Apostate” by his

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   ANCIENT ROME ISSUED coins for almost eight centuries. Among the bewildering variety of

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   FOR ANCIENT GREEKS and Romans, Britain was a mysterious land at the northern edge of the