George Mannes

New York

Editor at @AARP The Magazine & AARP Bulletin. NYC: A nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here. Photos (and opinions) are my own.

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What Could Cause Sudden, Severe Memory Loss? | Members Only

2 months ago | aarp.org | George Mannes

For Margot, sudden and severe amnesia kicked off a 24-hour ordeal of looking for answers. Tara Anand Facebook Twitter LinkedIn It was 4 a.m. on Dec. 31, 2024. My wife returned to bed from our hotel room’s bathroom, where she’d just thrown up some of the previous night’s dinner. “I don’t know where I am,” Margot said.
Is My Old Coin Collection Worth Anything?

Aug 7, 2023 | aarparrow.com | George Mannes

How do you get a fair price for old coins when you don’t know what they’re worth? That was the question my father-in-law, Howard, and I faced last summer. He had a pile of change inherited decades ago: a 50-cent piece from 1826, a penny minted during the Civil War, a silver dollar from 1885 and six more from the 1920s. I had a $2 bill from the 1950s and some pristine John F. Kennedy half-dollars from 1964, the last year the U.S. minted silver coins for circulation.