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Show Number 200. A good, clean stopping point. I really love doing this program, but after 200 shows, I've just about run dry. It's just bec...
First, the powers-that-be decided it was past time to get a woman on our currency. Their initial thought - Sacajawea on the ten-dollar bill....
No Show This Week - I'm at the Great Lakes Nostalgia Convention with Paul Petersen (Jeff Stone on the Donna Reed Show) and Kathy Garver (Big...
Oh, no. Dental check-up time again! What good could possibly ensue? Well, there was this great book full of treasure leads, right there amon...
"Psst! Hey Bud! This penny cost me almost two cents - yours for just a penny! And this nickel cost almost eight cents - wanna buy it for a n...
Who designs our coins? The Chief Engraver of the United States? Sometimes. An artist or sculptor invited by the US Mint? Sometimes. You? May...
Mr. Longacre was in trouble. His boss didn't like him. And his boss was Director of the United States Mint. But Mr. Longacre had friends in...
The year, 1915. The new Director of the United States Mint, Robert Woolley, misunderstood the law. He thought he had to redesign the dime, q...
The regularly-scheduled episode for this week has been put on the back burner because of a tragedy in Texas. Instead of one long show, here...
Out with the old, in with the new. The old calendar is all used up, and a fresh one is raring to go. New Year's Resolutions? Nah. They only...
They were never issued, the mint said. But Sam Brown had five of them. He said they were sold to him by various collectors around the countr...
Question: What do malted milk balls, garbage disposals, and coin-collecting treasure hunters have in common? Answer: Racine, Wisconsin. List...
The girl who sent me the email was frantic. Her husband's wedding ring had come off his finger while he was raking leaves. Did I know where...
Other sports do it, why not us? Yes, keep a lot of stats on your treasure hunting, impress your friends! I hope your CFPT is high, and your...
You May Have Valuable Coins In Your Pocket Right Now! Well, okay, probably not. For the past century, businesses have spent money trying to...
Coin collecting has become quite sophisticated in the past fifty years. Eagle-eyed collectors with lots of time on their hands have identifi...
Beginning coin collectors learn many terms unknown to the general public, and one of the first terms they encounter is "VDB." These initials...
Memorial back or wheat back? Did Ike really look like that? And that Susan B. Anthony dollar - what was THAT all about? Frank Gasparro was t...
The "In the Treasure Corner" podcast has just completed its seventh year, and in this birthday program we look back at the Top 10 Episodes o...
Before electronic pinpointers, there were probes that were pushed into the ground to locate the coins that our detectors told us were there....
Electronic pinpointers can help you find your targets a lot faster, some say. But others say they they don't save you time, they cost you ti...
There's a new coin book in town, and it dwarfs anything else you've ever seen. It has over 1,500 pages and nearly 6,000 illustrations. And i...
In 1941, the United States went to war. And from late 1942 through 1945, our nickels were zero percent nickel, but 35 percent silver. These...
Soon, the face of a woman will adorn our ten-dollar bill. But which woman? Mr. Jack Lew, Secretary of the Treasury, wants your help in choos...
The Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Coins is a normal-size paperbook book with over 650 pages of coin history, coin informat...
Meeting actress Kathy Garver made me wonder if any celebrities were into treasure hunting. Kathy, who played big sister Cissy on the TV show...
Why did Shirley Temple turn down the lead role in The Wizard of Oz? Who named his sidekick after his high school shop teacher - and for good...
Wanna be a big TV star on a reality show that will be shown worldwide? I got a phone call yesterday from Naela Durrani, a casting associate...
Beautiful dames, psychotic criminals, and ominous organ music - the classic elements of the audio-noir private eye radio show. This one was...
Not all hidden treasures are buried in the ground. I've seen many stories of treasures being found inside mattresses when an old person died...
Edgar Rice Burroughs was destitute. He had tried several careers, from gold mining to running a retail store, from cowboying (?) to the army...
Lloyd Nolan and Claire Trevor were two movie stars who also starred in a short-run, kind-of-private-eye series in late 1944. Lloyd Nolan app...
Pictured here are, top row, Gerhard Fischer (later spelled Fisher) and Kenneth C. White, and bottom row, Charles Garrett and Jack Gifford (T...
Here's another fun show that slipped through the cracks. What happens when an average American family is bequeathed a genuine English butler...
The first thing you notice about a gold dollar is how tiny it is - about a half inch across. And it weighs about 1/25 of an ounce, or about...
What do Superman, Popeye, and the Falcon have in common? The stars of all those shows were also stars in the detective radio drama, Philo Va...
Schoolbook controversies are nothing new. Nearly three-quarters of a century ago, the subject was covered in this episode of a CBS docu-dram...
Here's a rapidfire quiz about coins. The questions are hard but fun, and the answers are given right after the questions are asked. So if yo...
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, television was exploding everywhere, and radio was fading. Radio producers went to great lengths to survi...
The Blue Beetle began as a comic book in August, 1939. In 1940, CBS radio brought him to the airwaves. Dan Garrett was a rookie cop who had...
New Minelab gold detector: $12,499.00 Most expensive Garrett gold detector: $799.95* Is any detector worth twelve and a half thousand dollar...
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The Radio Hall of Fame was produced by Variety, the show-biz bible. Classical music composer and first president of ASCAP Deems Taylor was t...
The San Francisco mint, 1917. Somebody was doing SOMETHING unauthorized with one of the new machines that made half dollars, and there were...
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Joey Adams was in show biz for over 70 years. From vaudeville to the nightclub stage, from radio and TV to the authorship of 23 books, Adams...
The Franklin half dollar was issued from 1948 through 1963. It was designed by John Sinnock, who died before the coin was issued. Sinnock ha...
Cloak and Dagger was a high-quality spy thriller that ran in the summer and fall of 1950. Though it was short-lived, it made an impression a...
An Irishman playing an Italian? Somehow it worked. Luigi Basco, newly arrived in Chicago from the Old Country, writes a letter each week to...
Are you itching to use that new detector you got for Christmas, but the ground is still frozen and snow-covered? Don't waste the next couple...