On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, paid a state visit to the Bosnian city of Sarajevo. Although the Balkans were nominally under imperial control, the trip was fraught with peril. The city was honeycombed with operatives of the Serbian secret society called Unification or Death, commonl...
On April 6, 1917, 100 years ago today, the United States declared war on Germany, entering the Great War and ultimately tipping the scales in favor of the Allied powers.
In the spring of 1917, the US armed forces were little more than a regional power. "In military terms, the U.S. Army was small and out-of-date, hardly more than a consta...
On the eve of the First World War, Russia was ripe for revolution. For centuries, the country had been the most autocratic of European empires, the disparity between its rich and poor the widest, the rights of its people the most limited. Making matters worse, the Russian military suffered a string of humiliating losses in the 19th ce...
We are pleased to offer bulk quantities of the Venezuela 2 and 5 bolivares banknotes, P-88 and P-89. The 2 bolivares features a river dolphin; on the 5 bolivares, an armadillo.
Our new website has launched, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. We have given it a facelift and made it easier to navigate -- plus we will be able to add many more products, all for a better shopping experience.
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The years 2014-18 mark the centennial of World War I, the global conflict known at the time as the Great War. This remarkable collection contains six silver coins that circulated during the First World War. For wholesale pricing, click here.
Fans of the AMC show Breaking Bad are well acquainted with the fortune accumulated by Walter White, the high school chemistry teacher turned meth dealer, who is the show's fascinating and flawed protagonist. For awhile, his filthy lucre was piled in a storage unit, where his wife Skylar kept it under a tarp and sprayed for silverfish. When asked how much was there, she replies, "I have no earthly idea."
No strangers to large quantities of banknotes, we at ECC resolved to answer Mr. White's question. How much money does Heisenberg have? Continue reading
The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one of the most significant events in Western history: the beginning of the protestant Reformation.
In 1517, Martin Luther’s act of protest ignited a religious movement that would consume Europe for the next 150 years. This remarkable collection features genuine silver coins that circulated in Europe during the Protestant Reformation and the subsequent period of religious conflict known today as the Thirty Years’ War.
This remarkable collection is a numismatic history of eight pivotal Holy Wars between the Muslims and the Christians.
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