Sicily, a crossroads of the Mediterranean for more than 3000 years, has been ruled by Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, French, Spanish, Italians, and miscellaneous others while its people have retained their strong personal independence. Come with me as I make my way around the coast of this island from Palermo to Palermo visiting extinct cities, collections of ancient coins, Europe's largest volcano, and many other corners of this island with a thousand faces. Walk with me through this series of essays, each a snapshot of a town, a city, a train, a beach,...

This book is a coin by coin photographic record of my Morgan Dollar collection. In 2013, I sold my entire Morgan dollar collection on eBay with fine photo images. I had been collecting it since the mid-1950s. It was time to turn the stewardship over to the next generation of collectors. In the end the coins went to 62 different collectors in six countries. The collection was not full of rarities or many high-end examples. Rather it was an average collector's collection. The pictures were too nice to discard. So I decided to make this book for you enjoy the collection as I will also now be...