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Inherited a Coin Collection or Have Old Coins? – How To Get an Online...
Knowing what your coins are worth gives you control.
That matters whether you inherited a collection, opened a safe-deposit box, found a forgotten shoebox, or...
1867 No Rays Shield Nickel with a Pattern Reverse
The 1867 Proof Shield Nickel Secret That Hid for 135 Years
A five-cent coin should not need a detective story. This one does.
Heritage Auctions will...
Val Webb’s Cameo Legacy Heads to Auction: The Collector Who Taught America to See...
The “Father of Cameos” Taught Collectors to See Frost — Now His Collection Heads to Auction
Before “Cameo,” “Deep Cameo,” and “Ultra Cameo” became market...
The 1792 Silver Disme: America’s First Dime Almost Vanished Before It Began
The 1792 Silver Disme Is the Dime America Almost Forgot
In 1792, the United States did more than launch a Mint. It tried to prove...
1971 “No S” Proof Jefferson Nickel: The Only Missing Mintmark in the Series
The 1971 No S Error - 1,655 examples - Check your Proof Sets!
The 1971 “No S” Proof Jefferson Nickel (FS-501) ranks among the most...
1961 Franklin Half Dollar FS-801: The Red Book Doubled Die With a Cameo Secret
The Franklin Half Dollar Doubled Die the Red Book Couldn’t Ignore
A Franklin half dollar rarely shouts.
Benjamin Franklin looks calm. The Liberty Bell sits steady....
1849 Miners’ Bank $10 Gold Coin: A Gold Rush Fortune, a Private Mint, and...
The $10 Gold Rush Coin That Helped Break a Bank
The 1849 Miners’ Bank $10 gold coin belongs to the first wild chapter of California...
1859 Liberty Seated Half Dime: The Tiny Silver Coin With Paquet’s Hidden Hand
A Tiny 1859 Half Dime Hides One of the Mint’s Quietest Design Experiments
The 1859 Liberty Seated Half Dime looks quiet at first glance. It...
A $10,419 Walking Liberty Half Dollar? The PCGS White Rattler Made the Difference
The coin is common. The holder is historic.
A 1939 Walking Liberty Half Dollar in PCGS MS-65 sold through GreatCollections on June 28, 2026,...
1934-D Peace Dollar: The Depression-Era Silver Dollar With a Doubled Die Secret
The 1934-D Peace Dollar: The Depression-Era Variety Hiding in Plain Sight
The 1934-D Peace Dollar has a story that feels larger than its mintage.
On paper,...
Strasbourg Coins and the 1518 Dancing Plague: Small Silver, Big History
The Tiny Strasbourg Coin From the Era of Europe’s Strangest Plague
In July 1518, the streets of Strasbourg became the stage for one of Europe’s...
Revisiting The 1892-S Morgan Dollar That Commerce Nearly Erased
The 1892-S Morgan Dollar Was Spent Into Legend
A Superb Gem survivor shows why mintage never tells the whole story
The 1892-S Morgan dollar does not...
1915-S Panama-Pacific $50 Octagonal: America’s Gold Coin That Broke the Circle
The $50 Gold Coin That Broke America’s Circle for 111 Years
The 1915-S Panama-Pacific $50 Octagonal gold coin did something no other legal-tender United States...
U.S. Mint Liberty Bell Coins Revive a 111-Year Numismatic Rarity, but Also Raise Collector...
The U.S. Mint’s $19,600 Liberty Bell Coin Revives a 1915 Rarity, and a Pricing Fight
The 2026 Liberty Bell gold coins mark one of the...
1872 Three-Cent Silver in MS67: The Tiny “Fish Scale” That Closed a Denomination
This Tiny 1872 Silver Coin Ended One of America’s Strangest Denominations
An 1872 Three-Cent Silver piece graded MS-67 by PCGS represents one of the great...
1899 Black Eagle Silver Certificate: A Gem Fr. 236 Takes Flight at Stack’s Bowers
The Black Eagle Dollar That Carried Silver,and Survived the Titanic
Stack’s Bowers Galleries will offer a high-grade example of one of America’s most famous banknotes...
U.S. Mint Launches 250,000-Coin July 4 Quarter Hunt for America’s 250th Anniversary
The U.S. Mint Just Turned a 2026 Quarter Into a 250,000-Coin Treasure Hunt
Americans will soon have a new reason to check their change.
The United...
1893-S Morgan Dollar: The Panic-Year King Returns in Heritage’s Desert Find Sale
The $1 Coin Born in a Financial Panic: Why Collectors Chase the 1893-S Morgan Dollar
The 1893-S Morgan dollar does not need hype. It already...
1942-D/D Jefferson Nickel FS-501: The Wartime Die Blunder That Survived in Full Steps
The Wartime Jefferson Nickel Variety Hiding in Plain Sight
A dramatic Jefferson nickel variety crossed the block in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ November 2025 Showcase Auction...
Gold and Silver Face a New Test as the Fed Turns Hawkish
Gold and Silver Hit a New Test as Iran Risk Fades and the Fed Turns Tough
Gold and silver started the week with a familiar...
