In 1996 the Roosevelt Dime was minted and marked from West Point. While other circulating coins had been struck at West Point before this, the Dime was the first to receive the W Mint Mark to distinguish it as a coin coming from the West Point Mint. This Dime was …
It’s the Great American Coin Hunt! If you haven’t already, start the habit of looking at your Pocket Change! There will be lots more treasures to find in there because of an effort to put the ‘hunt back into the hobby of coin collecting’. Collectible Coins are being deliberately placed …
Pennies are one of the most collected coins in pocket change. Thousands sit in drawers, jars, ash trays, cans, etc. Sometimes for decades. Many of them return to circulation and so it isn’t unheard of that one of the pennies on the list below might make it into your pocket. …
While visiting Mount Desert Island, Maine, back in October, we had the opportunity to do some geocaching. One of the great values to geocaching is the different and interesting places they can lead you to. That was just the case with the following found cache. It led us exploring for …
One of the great mysteries and questions amongst the coin collecting community is ‘who was the Omega Man?’ After almost 50 years, still no one knows. In fact, no one can even say for certain if the person who produced one of the best known counterfeit coins of all time …
Geocache locations can often take a searcher to unique spots off the beaten path. I recently had the wonderful opportunity to discover such a place, and while there, I left behind MW Treasures Explorer 3 (trackable tag) to begin its journey to new and adventurous locations for us to all …
Geocaches, which are hidden containers and discovered by GPS-enabled devices, are secreted all across the world and are often put in amazing, special, and treasured places. MysteriousWritings decided to start placing their own Trackables in some of these Caches and share their adventures here on the MW website. Where might …
The Lost Sea, Mysterious Anthodites, and the Largest Underground Lake in the US by Don Luenser A child at play, a thirteen year old boy by the name of Ben Sands, ventured into a cave one day in 1905 in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains in Tennessee. With …
In 2016, it was recorded over 9 million pennies were produced by the US Mint and passed into circulation. This is lower than one of the record amounts of 14 billion minted in the year 2000. Some of these one cents, throughout the years of production since 1787, have become …
Guest Post by Beatrice Mercedes Coin Collecting Treasures: Rare Foreign Coins Following a promise to write a more conventional Treasure article, I hope you enjoy this and that it could be of worth, from a more ‘financial’ perspective. Although I appreciate that many of the readership of Mysterious Writings may …
