National Coin Week

While the Liberty Cap Foundation is your friendly little numismatic foundation, here to encourage people’s love of coins, investigation of culture, and knowledge of history,

we are one of many small numismatic societies. The grand US numismatic groups are the American Numismatic Society, which began in 1858, and the American Numismatic Association, created in 1891. The ANA began National Coin Week in 1924, when they wanted to create a way to enact their principles: “to disperse numismatic knowledge . . . to demonstrate that numismatics is an educational and entertaining pursuit . . . and to imbue other collectors with your own enthusiasm and love for the subject.”

We love that idea, and we encourage you to pull out your coins, no matter their shape or country of origin or denomination and take a close look at them. You might decide you think of them in terms of what they could have bought 50 or 250 years ago. Or maybe you want to look at them in terms of their beauty—or maybe you have coins from elsewhere, brought home by travelers or by soldiers or by yourself and you want to use the coins to transport you to a different place. The Liberty Cap Foundation encourages you during National Coin Week to use your coins as portals, as opportunities to think of new and different ideas.

If you want to know more about National Coin Week and the coin events throughout the year, many of which are free, please look at the ANA website, which is running trivia contests as well as online seminars.

As our name implies, we love a good liberty cap, and so we offer you some of our favorite coins and a few of our favorite posts: