CoinWeek Podcast #176: Selling Coin Stories With Donn Pearlman

CoinWeek Podcast #176: Selling Coin Stories with Donn Pearlman

  Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic app or subscribe to the CoinWeek Podcast on iTunes. * * * For more than 40...
Ezerman on the 1888-O "Hot Lips" Morgan Dollar

Ezerman on the 1888-O “Hot Lips” Morgan Dollar

By Rob Ezerman for CoinWeek .....   The spectacular and whimsical 1888-O Doubled Die Morgan dollar gained widespread attention with the early work of silver dollar...
Quick Tips for Finding Rare Coins in Rolls and Pocket Change

Quick Tips for Finding Rare Coins in Rolls and Pocket Change

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   Searching through change and coin-roll hunting can be an interesting and accessible entry into the hobby of coin collecting. With...
Certified Coin Marketplace - CAC-Approved Coins Bring Premiums in February 2023

Certified Coin Marketplace – CAC-Approved Coins Bring Premiums in February 2023

In addition to realizing impressive prices in internet sales during the month of February, CAC-approved coins fared well in live auctions in Las Vegas...
Jeff Garrett: Collecting Silver Dollar Varieties. Image: NGC/ CoinWeek.

Jeff Garrett: Collecting Silver Dollar Varieties

By Jeff Garrett for NGC (Numismatic Guaranty Corporation) ......   Collecting United States coins by die variety has its origins in early copper coinage. Some of...
Perth Mint

Perth Mint Gold “Doping” Scandal Calls Senior Leadership Into Question

By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ....   A recent report on Australian TV has put the reputation of one of the world's major mints--as well as...
Explosion in the Chief Coiner’s Vault at the U.S. Mint. Image: CoinWeek.

Explosion in the Chief Coiner’s Vault at the U.S. Mint – Part 1

By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   It was business as usual on a sultry Monday morning at the Philadelphia Mint. Heavy rain was...
1910-S Saint-Gaudens $10 Gold Coin - Guess the Grade

Grade This 1910-S Saint-Gaudens $10 Indian Gold Coin

  This week, CoinWeek has a 1910-S Saint-Gaudens Indian Head $10 eagle gold coin for you to grade. PCGS graded this coin and it has a...
CoinWeek Podcast #175: An Interview with United States Mint Chief Engraver Joe Menna

An Interview With US Chief Engraver Joe Menna

  Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic app or subscribe to the CoinWeek Podcast on iTunes. * * * In today’s episode of...
Hadrian and Expensive Ancient Coins

What Makes the Most Expensive Ancient Coins So Valuable

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   As someone working in the field of "pre-modern numismatics" at NAC USA, I have the extremely rare opportunity to...
Is the Coin Market Sleeping on Fairmont Collection Gold Coins?

Is the Coin Market Sleeping on Fairmont Collection Gold Coins?

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ......   CoinWeek Content Partner   The dispersal of the Fairmont Collection began in 2018. It became better organized in 2022 with the...
1936-S Cincinnati Half Dollar - Grade This Video Image

Grade This 1936-S Cincinnati Commemorative Silver Half Dollar

  This week, CoinWeek has a 1936-S Cincinnati Commemorative half dollar silver coin for you to grade. PCGS graded this coin and it features attractive toning. The...
Big Things Happened at the United States Mint in March

Big Things Happened at the United States Mint in March

By CoinWeek .....   One might think that as March takes its turn in the calendar's monthly procession that the business of the United States Mint might...
Roger Burdette - The First 1878-S Morgan Dollars Struck.

Roger Burdette: First 1878-S Morgan Silver Dollars Struck

Morgan Silver Dollars by Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   The first standard Morgan Silver Dollars designed by George T. Morgan were struck at...
The Coins of Carthage During Hannibal's War With Rome

The Coins of Carthage During Hannibal’s War With Rome

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   BORN IN 247 BCE at Carthage (near modern Tunis in North Africa), Hannibal Barca is remembered as one of...
CoinWeek Podcast: Coin Telemarkter Confidential.

CoinWeek Podcast #174: Coin Telemarketer Confidential

  Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic app or subscribe to the CoinWeek Podcast on iTunes. * * * In this episode of...
Maeterlinck Nobel Prize

Sotheby’s to Auction Nobel Prize Medal in Literature March 1

By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ....   Sotheby's of New York is currently offering the Nobel Prize for Literature medal given to Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck...
Ottoman Coins and Currency at the End of Empire

Ottoman Coins and Currency at the End of Empire

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   The Ottoman Empire was described as the "Sick Man of Europe" by the Russian tsar Nicholas I during a...
CoinWeek Video: Guess the Grade of This 1907 $10 Gold Eagle

CoinWeek Video: Guess the Grade of This 1907 $10 Gold Eagle

  This week, CoinWeek has a 1907 Liberty Head eagle $10 gold coin for you to grade. This coin was certified by NGC and presents a...
Fake Gold, Silver Coins on Hundreds of Websites: ACEF

Fake Gold, Silver Coins on Hundreds of Websites: ACEF

Investigators discover more than 300 websites selling counterfeit “rare coins” and “precious metal” items, including some advertisers on Walmart.com   A Long Island, New York investor...
Travers American Gold Eagle

American Gold Eagle Struck at Launch Offered by GreatCollections

GreatCollections is offering collectors a very interesting opportunity to purchase the 27th American Gold Eagle ever struck. Not only is this high-quality coin graded...
United States 1986-S Statue of Liberty Centennial Commemorative Proof Set

Cracking Open 1986-S Statue of Liberty Commemorative Proof Sets

  When considering whether to buy certified modern Proof coins instead of Proof coins in original government packaging, one must consider the long-term impact of...
Coins of Ancient Greek Pamphylia

Coins of Ancient Greek Pamphylia

By Steve Benner for CoinWeek .....   Pamphylia was not a country unto itself but a region. It is located on the southern coast of Asia...
CoinWeek Podcast #173: My Time at the United States Mint, With David J. Ryder

CoinWeek Podcast #173: My Time at the United States Mint, With David J. Ryder

  Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic app or subscribe to the CoinWeek Podcast on iTunes. In this episode of the CoinWeek...
Coins of the Medieval Ottoman Sultans of Turkey

Coins of the Medieval Ottoman Sultans of Turkey

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   AT THE BEGINNING of the 14th century (c. 1300 CE), Anatolia (modern Türkiye) was a patchwork of “beyliks”, small,...
Wheat Cent Inclusions found in cents struck between 1910-1919.

Metal Inclusions in Wheat Cents, 1910 to 1919

By Shawn Tew .....   An anomaly was discovered on the obverse side of a 1912-S Lincoln Wheat cent and posted on April 13, 2019, by...
What Is a Bracteate? A Brief Explanation

What Is a Bracteate? A Brief Explanation

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   A product of the highly fragmented political and economic world of central, eastern, and northern Europe during the early...
Krause 2023 Coin of the Year (COTY) Winner

Ukraine Wins Coin of the Year

Competition was tough for the Coin of the Year (COTY) competitors this year. The 10 category wins had numerous close calls in voting, with Canada,...

Guess the Grade of This Early Copper 1835 Half Cent

  In the latest video from CoinWeek, we put you up to the test against a chocolatey early American copper half cent dated 1835 and...
CoinWeek Podcast #172: Fighting Counterfeit Coins

CoinWeek Podcast #172: Fighting Counterfeit Coins

  Mobile phone users. Stream this podcast for free by downloading the podomatic app or subscribe to the CoinWeek Podcast on iTunes. * * * In this episode of...