WikiProject news and updates from the past month (past month here)
Featured articles
Member news
- There were no new members in August
Miscellaneous
- Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial half dollar will be today's featured article on September 26.
- Old Spanish Trail half dollar (discussion) is currently under review for Featured Article status. Users are encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Did You Know...
Continental Currency dollar coin
- ... that the Continental Currency dollar coin (obverse pictured), the first pattern coin of the United States, was designed by Benjamin Franklin? (August 14, 2019)
- ... that the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the United States Mint's first color coinage? (August 29, 2019)
- August 5, 1928, numismatist Walter H. Breen was born in San Antonio, Texas.
- August 13, 1983, the first US coins to bear the "W" mint mark were struck.