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By Steven Cochran for Gainesville Coins ......   In 2009, the United States Mint marked the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth with a four-coin series...

By Steven Cochran for Gainesville Coins ......   The 1965 Washington quarter was the first US quarter not made of 90% pure silver. This transition from...

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for Gainesville Coins ......   Wouldn’t it just be grand to buy gold or silver at spot price? Think about that pile of...

By Steven Cochran for Gainesville Coins ......   Virtually all Standing Liberty quarters are worth more than their melt value (roughly $5). Many of them are...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   Rumors have long circulated in numismatic circles about the mystery of the 1964 Peace dollar, which would have...

By Everett Millman – Gainesville Coins ..........   A new wave of counterfeit PAMP Suisse gold bars are making the rounds. These new fakes show much...

By Al Doyle for CoinWeek .....   Silver investors tend to check the current spot price before making a purchase of silver coins. That's a logical...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......   Bitcoin vs. Gold: What’s the Difference? The financial media has at times struggled to cover the emerging sector of cryptocurrencies....

By Steven Cochran for Gainesville Coins ......   The 1888 Morgan silver dollar is best known for its interesting die varieties. For collectors of rare varieties...

Terrence Campbell at Gainesville Coins ……… Everyone likes Benjamins, right? Usually, when Ben Franklin is referenced in regard to currency, our first thought is that of the 100...

By Everett Millman - Gainesvillecoins.com ......   Contemporary scholarship has introduced a number of new mysteries regarding history's most famous "natural philosopher" (i.e. scientist), Sir Isaac...

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for CoinWeek.com .....   When the United States Mint released the first Palladium American Eagle coins on September 25, 2017, a new era for...

by Jonathan Perry - Gainesville Coins Few coins are as distinct or carry with them a history quite like the Japanese Ryō Coin, also known as...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   One of the most sensitive secrets protected by the Washington establishment is the massive cache of gold reserves...

by Steven Cochran, The Coin Explorer - Gainesville Coins .......... Most collectors of U.S. coins are at least vaguely aware of the Pittman Act of...

Most of the time, when the topic of lost treasure is brought up, it falls into one of two categories: centuries-old shipwrecks and hidden Nazi gold. However, there is another major source of mythologized stories of long-forgotten gold riches that dates back to the WWII era: Yamashita’s gold.

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   There’s an old saying, “fake like a two-cent coin” or “a three-cent coin.” While these obscure denominations haven’t...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......   Since this past December's swoon for stock markets around the globe, investor interest in precious metals has seen a...

By Crystal Gomez - Content Writer, Gainesville Coins ......   Between 1900 and 1930, Colombia made special coins for leprosy colonies. In this epoch, leprosy cases...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   Switzerland has long had a reputation—sometimes a dubious one—for being a safe place to stash one’s wealth away...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......   Palladium is currently in a supply deficit. This is the main reason that prices have climbed so much recently. The...

Shaquille Brissett - GainesvilleCoins.com ......   Beneath the waters of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the sea floor is laden with gold, like the streets of heaven, only a bit...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......   It's every goldbug's favorite pipe dream: a return to some kind of gold standard that backs our money. Nothing remotely...

By Steven Cochran for Gainesville Coins ......   As The Royal Mint begins production of a new 12-sided £1 coin made with their recently-patented anti-counterfeiting measures,...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   Since the early 1980s, the People’s Republic of China has struck its own gold and silver bullion coins...

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for CoinWeek.com ......   It’s still unclear how history will ultimately remember the presidency of Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   Amid the nationwide mobilization effort for the Second World War, the United States Mint was forced to explore...

Indian Gold News By Everett Millman - GainesvilleCoins.com ........ One of the defining characteristics of traditional Indian gold culture is a strong affinity for gold. No...

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins .......   It’s not entirely surprising that in addition to enjoying vast precious metal deposits, South Africa has long been...

By Shaquille Brissett for Gainesville Coins ....   There is, in South America, a curious numismatic trend that challenges our assumptions of what is marketable and...