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APRIL 2024 MAGAZINE

April is our money issue. This month Patricia Vaccarino writes about St. Mary’s Church in Yonkers, New York. Heralded as the “Cathedral on the  Hudson River,” and a symbol for the immigrants who built Yonkers, St. Mary’s might be headed for death row. This month Barbara Lloyd McMichael writes about numismatics, coin collecting for the coin-curious, as well as for the serious hobbyist. Astronomer Andrew Fraknoi writes about the coming eclipse of the sun that will take place Monday, April 8, 2024.


Finding the True Value in Coins of Any Realm

From dentalium to tea bricks, from paper checks to wire transfers to plastic cards to cryptocurrency – over time, people have come up with many different methods of paying for goods and services. Not all of these have held up to the test of time, but metal coinage, has long earned a reputation for longevity.