Educational Coins

This album contains two banknotes and one Greater East Asia War Discounted Treasury Bond, issued by the Empire of Japan during the Second World War.

This deluxe portfolio album features a British coin that circulated in Whitechapel during the Jack the Ripper murders.

Features a silver coin of Ivan IV of Russia, creator of the state secret police.

Set Of 2 Coins And 7 Banknotes From The President And Absolute Ruler Of Iraq, Overthrown By U.S. Forces In 2003.

This album features two zinc Nazi coins, a banknote used by the Third Reich in occupied territories, and a stamp with a portrait of der Fuhrer.

This set contains a stamp, and banknote, and two coins issued by the Third Reich during World War II. Interestingly, Hitler chose not to have his portrait on German money.

The cruelty of Herod I is described in the Gospel of Matthew. To safeguard his position as King of the Jews, he ordered the slaughter of all boys under the age of two in the area of Bethlehem.

This album on the Helsinki Summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin includes two Finland 25 penial coins from 1917: one with and one without the Romanov crown.

Issued in 1952, this Nepalese 4 paisa coin was made from spent bullet casings used by the famed Gurka regiment in World War II.

The five notes in this set were printed by and circulated in various provinces of the Philippines during the Japanese occupation during World War II. During the occupation, possession of guerilla...

This album contains a Roman bronze coin of Valens, the emperor slain in battle by the Goths, who went on to conquer Rome.

This folder contains a Prager Groschen, which circulated in Prague during the life of Rabbi Loew, creator of the Golem.

When we think of ancient Rome, we think first of the gladiators. These professional fighters delighted frenzied crowds in the Colosseum, doing battle with wild animals, with condemned criminals, and...

These posthumous issues, struck after AD 337 by the sons of Constantine the Great, feature a spectral image of the veiled emperor on the obverse—who for some time remained the emperor, even in...

King George III assumed the throne in 1760 and ruled for 59 years—at the time, the longest reign of a British monarch. Unlike his father and grandfather, who hailed from the Electorate of...

This album features a farthing of George IV, who was king of Great Britain when the popular edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published.

A brutal head of state, Franco ruled Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 until his death in 1975. This album contains five coins and one banknote.

Tancred of Hauteville was the grandson of the great Norman ruler Robert The Fox Guiscard and the nephew of the legendary Bohemond of Antioch. With his uncle, he joined the group of Franks who...

Bronze prutahs that circulated in Judaea minted in the Emperor Nero’s name by his appointed governor, Porcius Festus (58-62 CE). Both men figure prominently in Christian history.

Herself an Augusta, Fausta (b. 289) was kin to numerous Roman emperors: she was the sister of Maxentius, the daughter of Maximianus, the second wife of Constantine the Great, and the mother of...

This album contains coins of emperors: 1/ Valentinian II, 2/ Theodosius I, 3/ Arcadius, and 4/ Honorius.

This remarkable collection of eight coins highlights some of the signature moments in the European Theater during the Second World War.

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilization, Ancient Egypt saw some of the...

The Year of the Dragon begins on February 10, 2024. This is the fifth of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac, and the only mythological creature in the cycle. The Dragon is am imposing figure,...

In the aftermath of 1389’s disastrous Battle of Kosovo Field, Sigismund of Luxembourg, the King of Hungary and Croatia, established his reputation. In 1408, he created a secret society devoted...

The last and worst of the ten persecutions of the early Church was ordered by Diocletian, who enjoyed a relatively long and fruitful reign at the end of the third century. Thousands of Christians...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower invaded Normandy. It is impossible to overstate the scope of the decisive battle that marked the beginning of the end...

Bronze coins of the first four emperors of the Constantine Dynasty. Constantine the Great and his three sons were the first Christian emperors of Rome.

Bronze coin of the Constantine Dynasty. Constantine the Great and his sons were the first Christian emperors of Rome.

No leader in the 20th century was more influential or tenacious than Sir Winston Churchill. As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, the ”British Bulldog“...

Bronze coin of the Chola dynasty that ruled southern India in the 11th century CE.

Twenty centuries of Chinese bronze cash coins, representing five great dynasties, with familiar square hole design.

The Book of Kings, the epic poem by the tenth century Persian poet Ferdowsi, contains the following passage on the origins of chess:-One day an ambassador from the king of Hind arrived at the Persian...

19th century Cambodian one-sided bronze coin with Buddhist Hamsa bird, symbolizing the acquisition of sacred knowledge.

Ten folders available.--Banknotes issued in unusual denominations by dictator Ni Win in 1985 Burma. He believed the numbers to be lucky.

Five banknotes used as scrip by the British military occupying Germany’s Rhine Valley after the Second World War. War can bring economic hardship—especially to the countries that lose...

Just before Christmas, 1940, Nazi aircraft flying over the United Kingdom from Norway bombed the harbor at Oban, Scotland, sinking a loaded cargo ship bound for Bombay, the S.S. Breda.--For five...

The first tea in the American Colonies was imported from Batavia, in the Netherlands East Indies, by the Dutch East India Company—better known as the VOC. The new beverage was an instant hit...

The ”Blood Countess“ Erzsébet Báthory is the most prolific serial killer of all time. A member of the Hungarian nobility, she tortured and killed hundreds of young women over...

Piracy in the Caribbean arose because of a perfect storm of events including a literal perfect storm. First, the War of Spanish Succession, a World War Zero that saw the major European powers...