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New England, Massachusetts Bay Colony Boston AR Pine Tree Shilling 1652 OBV: Pine tree with legend around REV: Date (1652) and denomination (XII) with legend around

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The Wartime Quarter That Became a $22,250 Rarity

A 1943 Quarter Became a $22,250 Rarity, Here’s Where to Look The Philadelphia Mint struck nearly 100 million Washington quarters in 1943. Most remain ordinary,...
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1942/1 Mercury Dime: The Wartime Mint Mistake That Put Two Years on One Coin

How a Wartime Mint Mix-Up Created a $120,000 Dime A single dime can tell a surprisingly large story. The 1942/1 Mercury dime carries two dates. It...

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America’s Rarest “What-If” Coins: Proven Strategies for Collecting U.S. Pattern Coinage

United States pattern coins represent ideas that never reached circulation. They show what the U.S. Mint considered, tested, and ultimately rejected. For collectors, that...

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The 1989-D Congress Dollar Error That Turned the U.S. Mint Upside Down

The Congress Silver Dollar That Escaped the U.S. Mint With a 180-Degree Error A dramatic 180-degree die rotation transformed an overlooked modern commemorative into one...

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Five Ancient Gold Coins and the Stories They Tell

Golden Echoes: Five Ancient Coins That Changed the World Gold has always represented more than just wealth. In antiquity, it symbolized the divine, immortal, untarnished,...

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Inside the Legendary Sabi Sabi Krugerrand – a Modern Gold Trophy with Only 72 Struck

The 1997 Sabi Sabi Proof Krugerrand Became a Modern Gold Trophy The Krugerrand usually represents liquidity, recognition, and gold ownership. South Africa produced millions of...

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The Red “R” Dollar: How a Failed Wartime Paper Test Created a Collector Classic

The Wartime $1 Experiment Collectors Refused to Spend The large red letter immediately catches the eye. It sits beside the blue Treasury seal on an otherwise...

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Gold’s $4,000 Test Exposes a Split Bullion Market as Silver Demand Cracks

Central Banks Are Buying Gold, So Why Are Silver Buyers Vanishing? The gold and silver market has entered one of its most revealing periods of...

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Uncancelled Die for the World War I Victory Medal Surfaces – A Once-in-a-Generation Discovery

  Contributed by Mike Byers - Post by CoinWeek In a stunning survival from the early 20th century, an original, uncancelled reverse die for the World...

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1796 Draped Bust Dime JR-3: The “Mr. 1796” Coin

America’s First Dime and the Collector Who Made 1796 His Mission America’s first dime entered circulation without the word DIME, a numeral, or any other...

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Uncancelled Die for the World War I Victory Medal Surfaces – A Once-in-a-Generation Discovery

  Contributed by Mike Byers - Post by CoinWeek In a stunning survival from the early 20th century, an original, uncancelled reverse die for the World...

Five Ancient Gold Coins and the Stories They Tell

Golden Echoes: Five Ancient Coins That Changed the World Gold has always represented more than just wealth. In antiquity, it symbolized the divine, immortal, untarnished,...

The Boston Mint and the First Colonial Coins

Why the Massachusetts Bay Colony Began Striking Its Own Coins in 1652 How did the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a trade-based outpost of England’s vast maritime...

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The Wartime Quarter That Became a $22,250 Rarity

A 1943 Quarter Became a $22,250 Rarity, Here’s Where to Look The Philadelphia Mint struck nearly 100 million Washington quarters in 1943. Most remain ordinary,...

1942/1 Mercury Dime: The Wartime Mint Mistake That Put Two Years on One Coin

How a Wartime Mint Mix-Up Created a $120,000 Dime A single dime can tell a surprisingly large story. The 1942/1 Mercury dime carries two dates. It...

Gold’s $4,000 Test Exposes a Split Bullion Market as Silver Demand Cracks

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Athena’s Owls Take Flight: Superb Arcadia Collection Coins to Make Public Debut at ANA 2026

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The Red “R” Dollar: How a Failed Wartime Paper Test Created a Collector Classic

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