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Coin Replicas in COINage Magazine’s May 2011 Issue
Flip of The Coin – Fate sent metallic artist back in coin repro business
Coin Replicas Continues Family Legacy
History and art work brings everything full circle for replica coin maker
Coin Replicas Donates Reproductions of Rare Colonial Coins to Living History Guild for Early American History Education Program
PUTNAM, NY (October 26, 2010) – Coin Replicas, Inc., announces its official launch and plans to collaborate with the Living History Guild [livinghistory.us] on the development of an Early American history education program for kids. Coin Replicas, Inc., is a metallic...
Coin Maker Recreates History through Rare and Ancient Coin Replicas
Peter Rosa Apprentice Recreates Stunning Likenesses Using Unique Metallic Art Techniques PUTNAM, NY (October 26, 2010) – Coin Replicas, Inc., a metallic art reproductionist of museum-quality, rare and ancient coins, today announced the company’s official launch....
Classifying Ancient Greek Coins through their Art
The high standard of art found among Ancient Greek coinage remains unmatched by any other time in numistmatic history. Coins of Ancient Greece are classified by three primary art periods, archaic art, the period of finest art, and the Hellenistic period. Coin...
Greek Coin Denominations
Dekadrachm: The Largest coin the ancient Greeks made was the dekadrachm. Deka means ten in Greek. So dekadrachm is ten times the value of a drachm Tetradrachm: The next largest coin was the tetradrachm, tetra meant four. The tetradrachm is four times the drachm...
Post Colonial Period
When America declared its independence in 1776, tokens, patterns, and state copper coins were struck by private enterprises with some sanctioning by individual states. According to Q. David Bowers in his book, Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins...
Common European Currencies Used By The Colonists of Early North American
Among the rare and interesting historical coins of early America are those currencies from Europe and the mints of Spanish colonies from South America that were used by the earlier settlers of North America, including: Sommer Islands Coinage (1616) The first coins...
