A library for people who collect the pieces that were never money.

Daniel Carr's private mint in Loveland, Colorado, striking his own designs on a press that served the Denver Mint for fifteen years: overstrikes, Hard Times and Lesher tributes, medals and bullion. The catalog page carries mintage figures. More on our Colorado page.

The American Numismatic Society holds the records, specimen archive and dies of the Medallic Art Company, maker of the Pulitzer, Newbery and presidential inaugural medals from 1903 until its 2018 bankruptcy. Essays and photo archives alongside the specimens.

Twentieth-century American medals series by series, mostly Medallic Art Company work: every Society of Medalists issue, the Circle of Friends of the Medallion, Brookgreen Gardens, the Marqusee collection by number.

The online companion to Hibler and Kappen's reference, kept by the Coin & Currency Institute. Browse by HK number, by event or by year, with the unlisted varieties found since the book. No prices; those stay in the book.

Jeff Shevlin's gathering place for so-called dollar collectors: discussion threads on dozens of topics, hundreds of photographs, research articles, and his books with Bill Hyder, beginning with So-Called Dollars, Volume I: United States Expositions. Shevlin also deals in the pieces.

A collector's register of so-called dollars that Hibler and Kappen never listed, with a search page, a rarity tally, past auction prices, and separate tallies for the World's Columbian Exposition and the Washington pieces. Not to be confused with the hyphenated address above.

NGC's catalog pages for HK-numbered pieces, with photographs, grading populations and price history. There is a sibling section for tokens.

Richard Greever's collector-built database of more than 700,000 tokens, each with a TC number and, where a contributor has done the directory work, the issuer and dates. Searchable by state and town without an account; 680 Pueblo entries when we last looked.

A collector-built catalog of coins, tokens and medals from every country, with photographs, reference-number fields for HK, DH, TC and the rest, and collection tracking.

The Token and Medal Society's register of mavericks, tokens that name a merchant but no town, published in batches since 1965. Members submit; anyone may propose an attribution.

The American Numismatic Society's collection database, more than 600,000 objects including its tokens, medals and decorations, with photographs and an advanced search.

The Fuld books have no online edition, but the society posts the corrections, new merchants and new dies reported since the Store Cards fourth edition and the Patriotics sixth edition.

Medal Collectors of America's guide to the Society of Medalists series, 1930 to 1995, the long-running subscription series of American art medals. One of several series guides on the site.

Washington University's free digital library of numismatic literature: auction catalogs, society journals, out-of-copyright references and decades of periodicals, all searchable. The first place to look for a scan of any reference on the decoder.

The Token and Medal Society's journal, scanned and searchable. Most of what is known about American trade tokens was first printed here.

Full view of the ANA's monthly through 2002, which is where Wright's store-card series, King's Lincoln listings and Wilde's Lesher census were serialized. Later issues are in the members' archive at money.org.

The Civil War Token Society's journal, scanned: die studies, merchant research and the arguments behind the Fuld numbers.

Many of the portal's scans are hosted here, which is handy when you want a PDF rather than a page viewer. Low's Hard Times Tokens, Baker, Betts, Loubat and Storer are all open-access.

The national collection at the Museum of American History, about 1.6 million objects, with research guides and online galleries. Colorado territorial gold included.

The hobby's umbrella society since 1960. Publishes the TAMS Journal, keeps the maverick records and maintains a links page to every specialist group below.

Founded 1967 for the patriotic tokens and store cards of 1861 to 1865. Publishes the Fuld references, a journal, a known-fakes list and a lending library.

For the British and Irish provincial tokens of 1787 to 1804 catalogued by Dalton and Hamer. A journal, a mail-lending library and links to the free historical references.

Transportation-token collectors. Publishes the Atwood-Coffee catalog, free as a PDF to members, and the monthly Fare Box.

The club for rolled and elongated coins, founded 1966, with TEC News back issues and listings of every club-issued elongated.

Wooden nickels and their relatives, with the club newsletter Bunyan's Chips.

Coins engraved for sweethearts, by category: silver, gold, enamel, cut-down, jewelry. Registers of reported pieces and the Love Letter newsletter.

The trade-token collectors' association: the monthly Talkin' Tokens, mail auctions and a free trial membership.

Coal and lumber company scrip. Scrip Talk newsletters, county lists, record prices and the running revisions to the Edkins catalog.

American medals of every kind. The MCA Advisory, series guides, recorded member talks and oral histories with the people who made the market.

The artists' side of the medal, founded 1982: exhibitions, the American Medal of the Year and a short history of the medal as an art form.

The international federation of art-medal makers and collectors, founded 1937, with a congress and exhibition every two years and a database of the medals shown at them.

Publishes The Medal, the leading journal on the art medal, and commissions new medals from British artists.

The national hobby association since 1891, headquartered in Colorado Springs with the Money Museum attached. Club directory, The Numismatist and the summer seminar.

The research society in New York, founded 1858: the MANTIS collection database, the Bass library and the Medallic Art Company archive.

Chips, gaming tokens and the slot-machine tokens that replaced silver dollars in Nevada.

The sales-tax tokens of the 1930s, state by state. Colorado was one of the states that issued them.

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society's weekly email since 1998, heavy on exonumia, book reviews and the people behind the references. The complete archive is on the site and is where half our sources came from.

CoinWeek's tag page for tokens and medals: book releases, auction previews and the Exonumia of the Week pieces.

The American Numismatic Association's museum at 818 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs. Lesher dollars and Clark Gruber gold in the Colorado exhibit; ANA members get in free.

Founded 1962; meets the fourth Tuesday at the Eagles hall on 21st Street. With the Numismatic Society it runs the Colorado Springs Coin Show every June.

The CF&I museum and archives in Pueblo, with the Colorado Supply Company's records among six thousand cubic feet of company papers. Archive research by appointment.

The Pueblo city directories, newspapers on microfilm and photo archive on the third floor of the Rawlings Library. How a "good for 5" with an address becomes a named saloon with dates.

A scholarly web book built on the Steelworks archives, with chapters on the Colorado Supply Company stores and how scrip worked in the camps.