What Can You Learn While Being a Numismatist?

In my decades of working as a coin dealer, I have written a lot of sales copy. In the process of describing various items, I have had to dig into the history of the pieces or the history behind what was selected for the artwork. In the process, I learned far more than I ever learned in history classes in school.

Just for fun, let me share some of these things that I learned while doing numismatic research.

The first coins of the Heller denomination were issued in 1189 in the German city of Hall am Kocher (today called Schwabisch Hall). The