Coin World Podcast
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Jun 24, 2020, 10 AMReinvigorate an old medium: Coin roll hunting and Don Everhart
Jeff and Chris interview Don Everhart, an artist with the U.S. Mint's Artistic Infusion Program responsible for many U.S. coin and meal designs, in addition to work for world mints. They also discuss coin roll hunting and an edition of Coin World from 2003. -
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Jun 15, 2020, 5 PMValue added: A conversation with Michael O'Malley
Chris and Jeff interview Michael O'Malley, a history professor at George Mason University who wrote Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. They also review an edition of Coin World from 2012, and Chris contends with a question about Shield Nickels. -
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Jun 9, 2020, 3 PMMaking cents: Zach Edick and Jamie Kovach
The penny takes center stage this week, as Jeff and Chris talk with Zach Edick and Jamie Kovach, co-directors and co-producers of a documentary Heads-Up: When Will We Stop Making Cents. -
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Jun 2, 2020, 4 PMDancing in the Moonlight: Dan Carr and the Moonlight Mint
Jeff and Chris interview Dan Carr, the owner and operator of the Moonlight Mint, a private mint in Colorado. They take the opportunity to discuss private mint products, read a listener email, and debut Jeff's numismatic one-man show. -
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May 26, 2020, 4 PM"So-Called Guy": World's Fairs, 1963 FRNs, and Jeff Shevlin
Jeff and Chris interview Jeff Shevlin, an expert on "so-called dollars," an important category of American exonumia. The two also investigate Federal Reserve Notes with some strange connections to the Kennedy Assassination, while Chris changes things up by asking Jeff the trivia question. -
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May 19, 2020, 11 AMCOVID collectibles: challenge coins, bullion bars, Bryan dollars
Jeff and Chris discuss the emerging exonumic material that takes the COVID-19 pandemic as its theme, and connect the material to Bryan dollars from the 1890s. They also take a look at an edition of Coin World published in 1970. -
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May 12, 2020, 12 PMA House Divided — Talking Confederate Paper Money with Pierre Fricke
Jeff and Chris have a long conversation with Pierre Fricke, an expert in Confederate paper money. Numerous fascinating anecdotes ensue. -
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May 4, 2020, 4 PMNewsworthy: A conversation with Gerald Tebben
Jeff and Chris interview Gerald Tebben, a former reporter for the Columbus Dispatch and longtime Coin World writer who has written on a broad range of numismatic topics and wrote the Dispatch's coin column between 1980 and 2005. -
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Apr 28, 2020, 9 AMCracking the Books — Cashless transactions, Jeff's bookshelf, and Lianna Spurrier
Jeff and Chris discuss the prevalence of cashless transactions throughout the Covid-19 crisis. They also discuss the ongoing reorganization of Jeff's numismatic library and interview Lianna Spurrier, the Numismatic Marketing's Creative Director. -
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Apr 21, 2020, 11 AMCoin World: Then and Now — 60 years of Coin World with Rick Amos
Celebrating Coin World's 60th anniversary, Jeff and Chris speak with Rick Amos, the CEO of Amos media, Coin World's parent company. They also review Coin World's first issue from 1960. -
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Apr 14, 2020, 11 AMThought patterns: mint closures, bicentennial cents, and Saul Teichman
Jeff and Chris recap some recent Coin World coverage of mint closures around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also interview Saul Teichman, an expert in U.S. pattern material. -
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Apr 7, 2020, 11 AMJust our type: a conversation with Chris Costello
Jeff and Chris talk with Chris Costello, a Boston-area artist responsible for a number of U.S. coin designs, and the recipient of the 2019 Coin of the Year Award. He also worked on two different typeface families and developed the Papyrus font. -
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Mar 30, 2020, 3 PMGoing the distance: one year of the Coin World Podcast
Jeff and Chris reflect on a year recording the Coin World Podcast. -
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Mar 23, 2020, 5 PMShe's a natural: A conversation with Emily Damstra
In the shadow of COVID-19, parallels are widely being drawn to the 1918 Spanish Flu, so Jeff and Chris decide to investigate the impact of that early twentieth-century pandemic on the hobby. They also interview Emily Damstra, a natural science illustrator responsible for a number of Canadian and American coins. -
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Mar 16, 2020, 7 PMShamrock shakeup: COVID-19, the Irish Free State, and Michael Dlugosz
Jeff and Chris deal with numismatic shakeups in this week's episode. They review the first coinage of the Irish Free State as a nod to St. Patrick's Day and interview Michael Dlugosz, author of a book on British Conder tokens. COVID-19, front of mind for so many, and its effects on the hobby are discussed as well. -
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Mar 10, 2020, 3 PMFather of His Country: George Washington on coins and medals, with Neil Musante
Chris interviews Neil Musante, a numismatic researcher whose recent two-volume work, Medallic Washington, deals with exonumic depictions of the United States' first president. -
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Mar 3, 2020, 1 PMRule, Bermania!: Micronations, Papal Coinage, and Allen Berman
Jeff and Chris speak with the sovereign ruler of Bermania, Allen Berman, a coin dealer and expert in Papal Coinage. They also discuss coinage from micronation, tiny, generally-unrecognized territories and look at an issue of Coin World from 1991. -
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Feb 24, 2020, 3 PMDigging up ancient history: David Hendin
Jeff and Chris speak with David Hendin, an expert in Ancient Jewish and Biblical coinage. They discuss Hendin's experience in publishing, his archaeological work, and his research on Biblical coinage. -
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Feb 18, 2020, 10 PMParty like it's 1999: Impeachment collectibles, paper currency, and Art Friedberg
Jeff and Chris discuss artifacts associated with past impeachment, and the collectibility of the tickets and other material relating to the impeachment of Donald Trump. They interview Art Friedberg, an expert in American currency, and consider the nine different types of federally-issued paper currency released since 1861. -
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Feb 11, 2020, 11 AMBack from Berlin
Jeff, recently returned from Germany where he was attending the World Money Fair, presents an interview with Coin World contributor Sebastian Wieschowski.
