Garfield Heights Coin Club

05/07/2026

Our Hawaiian Night gang from our April Meeting.

05/01/2026

05/01/2026

The Hidden Die Curve Behind Philadelphia Mint Error Coins Collectors have long believed that U.S. coin errors and varieties appear more often on

05/01/2026

The GHCC May newsletter has not yet gone out. It will go out next week. We were on a vacation.

04/22/2026

By CoinWeek Notes ..... The Mint Act of 1890 allows the design of a United States coin to be changed every 25 years. Thus, in 1916, there was interest in

04/22/2026

04/22/2026

Coinage dies of the eighteenth century can reveal a great deal about the appearance of coins from that period. The one illustrated here, for a five guinea piece of George II, is interesting because it would have been used to strike coins without a restraining collar. The technique, known as splash striking, produces coins with distorted lettering and beading because the metal flows without restraint around the border of the design.

The distortion is apparent on currency pieces but not on proofs or patterns. Much greater care was taken over their production, employing dies with squared-off shoulders that allowed for a collar to be used.

04/20/2026

Note of the Day: For , we’re spotlighting paper money from every state in the country. Indiana is up next, with this Notre Dame University Bank ND (1861) $25. It realized $3,360 at a Heritage Auctions sale a few months ago.

04/20/2026

04/20/2026

U.S. Pattern Coinage: Inside America’s Rarest “What-If” Coins From the 1792 Half Disme to the Bob R. Simpson cabinet, U.S. Pattern coins tell the story of