Whois & Analysis for littletoncoin.com

Littleton Coin Company is a privately held major American mail order and retail company focused on numismatic (currency) collectibles and based in Littleton, New Hampshire.

The company focuses largely on U.S. coins and world coins, as well as a variety of paper money and ancient coins.

Largely focused on direct mail, Littleton publishes catalogs several times yearly and has a "coins-on-approval" program.

Proof coinage means special early samples of a coin issue, historically made for checking the dies and for archival purposes, but nowadays often struck in greater numbers specially for coin collectors (numismatists).

Nearly all countries have issued proof coinage.

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.

While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods.

Early money used by people is referred to as "Odd and Curious", but the use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency (e.g., cigarettes in prison).

The Kyrgyz people used horses as the principal currency unit and gave small change in lambskins; the lambskins may be suitable for numismatic study, but the horse is not.

Many objects have been used for centuries, such as cowry shells, precious metals, cocoa beans, large stones, and gems.

The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation is constituted of the equity stock of its owners.

A single share of the stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares.

In liquidation, the stock represents the residual assets of the company that would be due to stockholders after discharge of all senior claims such as secured and unsecured debt.

Stockholders' equity cannot be withdrawn from the company in a way that is intended to be detrimental to the company's creditors.

The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a United States coin worth 25 cents, one-fourth of a dollar.

It has a diameter of.955 inches (24.26 mm) and a thickness of.069 inches (1.75 mm).

The coin sports the profile of George Washington on its obverse and its reverse design has changed frequently.

It has been produced on and off since 1796, and consistently from 1831 onward.