Coins, Currency & American History

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America was not built in a straight line.It was built through arguments about power, money, and trust.This podcast tells the story of the United States through the forces that shaped it beneath the surface: currency, credit, debt, and the systems people argued over long before the outcomes were clear. Instead of memorizing dates and battles, we follow the economic and political choices that quietly defined who benefited, who paid the price, and why the nation developed the way it did.From the fight between Hamilton and Jefferson, to the rise and fall of early national banks, to gold rushes that turned frontiers into financial centers, each episode explores how Americans tried to turn ideals into institutions. How paper promises competed with hard money. How regional economies grew apart even as the country claimed unity. And how decisions made in moments of uncertainty echoed for generations.This is not a story about heroes or villains.It’s a story about systems, incentives, and unintended consequences.Across 52 episodes, the series moves from the founding era to the modern age, showing how debates over money and power never really ended, they only changed form. Every crisis, boom, panic, and reform is part of the same ongoing argument about who controls value and what a nation owes its people.If you want to understand why America works the way it does today, you have to understand how it learned to pay its bills, trust its currency, and fight over who held the keys.This is American history, told through the economics that made it real.

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Ep. 22 – The Gilded Age: When Capital Outgrew Money

The end of Reconstruction left the future of the United States wide open. Historians would later call this period the Gilded Age. And for the first time since independence, Americans stopped measuring themselves against Europe. They started competing with it... Presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the Coins, Currency & American History podcast, presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] Are you a collector? Shop one of the largest inventories of coins, paper money & collecting supplies at https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] New to Collecting? Check out Littleton's FREE Coin Collecting Learn Center at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn [https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn] Want more fun facts about coins & currency? Check out Littleton's popular Heads & Tails Blog at: https://blog.LittletonCoin.com [https://blog.LittletonCoin.com] Follow Us on Social Media: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany [https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany] * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/ [https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/] * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo [https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo] * Pinterst: https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/ [https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/] * X: https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin [https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin] Littleton Coin Company Serving Collectors Since 1945 Copyright © 2026 Littleton Coin Company, Inc. All rights reserved. 1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561

29. Mai 2026 - 12 min

Ep. 21 – The Lost Cause and Reconstruction

The Civil War had ended. Reconstruction brought the Southern states back into the Union. Yet for many in the South, the wounds lingered. They searched for a way to make sense of defeat and move forward with a measure of dignity. And their search gave to what would become known as The Lost Cause... Presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the Coins, Currency & American History podcast, presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] Are you a collector? Shop one of the largest inventories of coins, paper money & collecting supplies at https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] New to Collecting? Check out Littleton's FREE Coin Collecting Learn Center at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn [https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn] Want more fun facts about coins & currency? Check out Littleton's popular Heads & Tails Blog at: https://blog.LittletonCoin.com [https://blog.LittletonCoin.com] Follow Us on Social Media: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany [https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany] * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/ [https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/] * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo [https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo] * Pinterst: https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/ [https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/] * X: https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin [https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin] Littleton Coin Company Serving Collectors Since 1945 Copyright © 2026 Littleton Coin Company, Inc. All rights reserved. 1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561

22. Mai 2026 - 8 min

Ep. 20 – Fractional Currency and a New Financial System

The Civil War changed the American financial system. Its patchwork of coins and local bank notes gave way to more centralized federal paper money and one of the most practical – and collectible – innovations in our numismatic history: Fractional Currency... Presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the Coins, Currency & American History podcast, presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] Are you a collector? Shop one of the largest inventories of coins, paper money & collecting supplies at https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] New to Collecting? Check out Littleton's FREE Coin Collecting Learn Center at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn [https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn] Want more fun facts about coins & currency? Check out Littleton's popular Heads & Tails Blog at: https://blog.LittletonCoin.com [https://blog.LittletonCoin.com] Follow Us on Social Media: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany [https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany] * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/ [https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/] * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo [https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo] * Pinterst: https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/ [https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/] * X: https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin [https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin] Littleton Coin Company Serving Collectors Since 1945 Copyright © 2026 Littleton Coin Company, Inc. All rights reserved. 1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561

15. Mai 2026 - 11 min

Ep. 19 – The Civil War

When Confederate artillery opened on Fort Sumter in April 1861, America plunged into a war unlike any before in American history. It was a full-scale test of two societies, economies and financial systems. Armies would decide battles. But money – how to raise it, spend it, sustain it – would decide the war... Presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the Coins, Currency & American History podcast, presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] Are you a collector? Shop one of the largest inventories of coins, paper money & collecting supplies at https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] New to Collecting? Check out Littleton's FREE Coin Collecting Learn Center at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn [https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn] Want more fun facts about coins & currency? Check out Littleton's popular Heads & Tails Blog at: https://blog.LittletonCoin.com [https://blog.LittletonCoin.com] Follow Us on Social Media: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany [https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany] * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/ [https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/] * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo [https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo] * Pinterst: https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/ [https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/] * X: https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin [https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin] Littleton Coin Company Serving Collectors Since 1945 Copyright © 2026 Littleton Coin Company, Inc. All rights reserved. 1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561

8. Mai 2026 - 7 min

Ep. 18 – A Nation Divided

The decade before the Civil War is often described as a political crisis. But the 1850s were also an economic crisis, a cultural crisis and a crisis of imagination. North, South and West each had opposing visions of the future – and believed the others misunderstood America’s promise... Presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] We hope you've enjoyed this episode of the Coins, Currency & American History podcast, presented by Littleton Coin Company. Visit us online at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] Are you a collector? Shop one of the largest inventories of coins, paper money & collecting supplies at https://www.LittletonCoin.com [https://www.LittletonCoin.com] New to Collecting? Check out Littleton's FREE Coin Collecting Learn Center at: https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn [https://www.LittletonCoin.com/Learn] Want more fun facts about coins & currency? Check out Littleton's popular Heads & Tails Blog at: https://blog.LittletonCoin.com [https://blog.LittletonCoin.com] Follow Us on Social Media: * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany [https://www.facebook.com/littletoncoincompany] * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/ [https://www.instagram.com/littletoncoincompany/] * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo [https://www.youtube.com/user/LittletonCoinCo] * Pinterst: https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/ [https://www.pinterest.com/littletoncoin/] * X: https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin [https://twitter.com/LittletonCoin] Littleton Coin Company Serving Collectors Since 1945 Copyright © 2026 Littleton Coin Company, Inc. All rights reserved. 1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561

1. Mai 2026 - 8 min

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