I’ve Held History in My Hands: A Conservator’s Plea to Save Our Sunken Treasures After thirty years preserving shipwreck artifacts, I’ve witnessed gut-wrenching losses that keep […]

Few things pain me more than watching historical treasures deteriorate from preventable mistakes. If you cherish your collection as I do mine, here’s how to protect […]

I still remember the heartbreak of holding a corroded 1864 sutler token that lost its story to harsh cleaning. These military artifacts—whether Civil War trade coins […]

The Silent Crisis in Coin Collecting How many treasures have we watched crumble before our eyes? As someone who’s handled thousands of coins, nothing breaks my […]

Save Our History: A Conservator’s Plea to Protect Newfoundland Coinage After three decades rescuing coins from well-meaning disasters, I’ve developed a cardinal rule: what touches your […]

The Fragile Legacy in Your Hands Ever held history in your palms? I still wince remembering a 1900-O Morgan Dollar – once glowing with cartwheel luster […]

Operation Redfeather Preservation: Saving Our Coinage Legacy for Future Generations I’ve held history in my palms – coins that survived wars and recessions only to be […]

There’s nothing more heartbreaking than watching a prized coin’s luster fade forever due to simple preservation mistakes. As we enter an era of revolutionary minting technologies, […]

The Fragile Legacy of America’s Most Problematic Penny Few coins quicken a collector’s pulse like stumbling upon a 1922-D Lincoln Cent. As a preservation specialist who’s […]