Exploring Copper and Iron Country

Mines, Museums Minerals of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

EQUINE Bling!

How an Oklahoma Saddle Maker Uses Moissanite, Gold, Silver Turquoise tc to Adorn Saddles Jewelry

Black Range Amethyst

Amethyst in Southwest New Mexico

Flint: Our Rock of Ages

Used Since the Dawn of Humanity

Rhode Island's Hobbit Stone Age

Rhode Island may be 22nd out of 30 states in miles of total coastline but when you compare coastline length to land acres, it ranks second only to Maryland.

Len Augsburger

IN CHARGE OF DIGITIZING EVERYTHING NUMISMATIC

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HOBBYIST

JOINING THE NATIONAL COIN CLUB AND WATCHING GOLD

Coin Learning for Fun & Profit

ARE SUMMER SEMINARS THE FUTURE?

John Kraljevich

NUMISMATIST OF THE CENTURY

British Rarities Are Shining Star

AUCTION FEATURES PEH COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS

Dwight N. Manley

NUMISMATIST OF THE CENTURY

10 Reasons Why Gold Will Hit $2,500 by the End of 2024

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS THE YELLOW METAL

Canadian Coins Are Pretty COOL Eh?

Oh, Canada... The land of ice hockey, poutine, and Tim Horton's coffee has produced scores of beautiful coins that make collectors flip their toques.

New Photo Guide to Grading Morgan Silver Dollars

SECRETS OF THE CAC GRADING SYSTEM

1935 Bank of Canada $500 English Text Boosts Heritage's World Paper Money Auction to Nearly $2M

Currency from Canada showed its might in the Heritage’s World Paper Money Signature Auction held earlier this year.

Central States Numismatic Society Honors Dennis Tucker

Publisher/author receives 2024 Q. David Bowers Award

13 Kenny Duncan Sr.

NUMISMATIST OF THE CENTURY

SLED INTO SUCCESS WITH SEGMENTED BOWLS

Start your journey toward creating beautiful bowls with the first critical step: accurately cutting and assembling the angled segments.

BREADBOARD ENDS DONE RIGHT

This traditional method for concealing end grain relies on a hidden trick to work properly. Find out the \"hole\" story behind breadboard ends with this time-tested method.

BENCHTOP ROUTER TABLES

Can compact tables deliver big-time routing features and performance? We tested 11 benchtop models to find out.

VENEER-SHADE LAMP

Get ready for warm and glowing reactions to this lamp. It makes sheets of veneer and bits from your scrap bin really shine.

CLASSIC CHERRY SIDEBOARD

A plywood carcase provides a quick-to-build foundation for the dovetailed drawers and mortise-and-tenon doors.

TRANSFORMABLE TOOL STAND

Simple but sturdy, this mobile stand can hold a benchtop power tool. Build two stands and you can stack them or pair them as pedestals for an add-on workbench top.

MODERN PICNIC TABLE

Serve up some style at your next cookout or outdoor party with this eye-catching table and bench combo.

STUDIO? WOOD SHOP? YES!

Don't mistake this backyard shed as a high-end home for garden tools. Instead, you'll find an efficient, well-lit, and comfortable workshop inside.

MITER-GAUGE SHOOTING BOARD

Build this shooting board in an afternoon; use it for a lifetime to produce gap-free joinery with just a few strokes of a hand plane.

SOCK-LEG TABLE

Build this accent table and try your hand at an uncommon technique for dressing up tapered legs.

The Resilient Revival of Anne Brontë & Her Stones

For the first time, the Anne Brontë rock collection underwent complete description and identification, and along with Professor Hazel Hutchison of Leeds University and Dr. Enrique Lozano Diz at ELODIZ (a company specializing in spectroscopy analysis), an analysis of that collaboration, Anne Brontë and Geology: A Study of her Collection of Stones, was published in April 2022 in Volume 47, Issue 2 of the peer-reviewed journal, Brontë Studies & Gazette.\"

HOW TO PUT A PROTECTIVE CAP ON A CAB

To protect a specimen cab, often a cap is needed. In my case, I had a slab with the because of the color of the background and the pattern. This background had a more silicified consistency than most sandstones. It had no graininess like most sandstone, so I'm inclined to compare it to a jasper. The pattern was typical of a dendrite.

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