Author Archives: David L. Ganz

William Gray, the 65-year-old police officer with the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia who was arrested Sept. 9, 2011, and charged with the theft of more than $2 million worth of numismatic dollar coin errors, has been sentenced to three years in jail and three years of subsequent supervision. Continue reading →

Former members of the U.S. Assay Commission, which met every year from 1792 until 1977, except for 1815 when the Mint burned, are slated to meet at Philadelphia Aug. 8 to coincide with the anniversary convention of the American Numismatic Association. Continue reading →

Coin collecting began for me in 1960 when I started looking at my pocket change and found, to my surprise, that one of the coins – a cent with a gentle Indian portrait – was different from the run-of-the-mill coins bearing Abraham Lincoln’s portrait. Continue reading →

Samuel Clemens once remarked that rumors of his death were premature. For the past half dozen years, it seemed that rumors of a move in Congress to commemorate him shared that fate. Continue reading →

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is running for President of the United States and also chairs the House subcommittee that oversees coinage. So on April 17, a hearing on “The Future of Money: Coin Production” was called and held before his House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy & Technology. Continue reading →

With the new GAO report to Congress suggesting that a dollar coin for dollar bill switch is uneconomical based on the statistical input of factors that include the duration in circulation of dollar bills and coins, there might be some question as to the validity of the quantified numbers showing circulation life and use. Continue reading →