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By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for PCGS ......   While the "Bugs Bunny" Franklin half dollar captures the whimsy of the series enthusiast, the most popular variety of...

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC) ......   After writing the previous “family” article about rather deceptive struck counterfeit half cents based on the...

1903 saw a series of interesting events for America: the United States leased Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, the Ford Motor Company was founded, and...

By CoinWeek ..... The month of January sets the stage for the new year. Americans go back to work, the wheels of the financial markets...

Hindsight is 20/20, and despite the Great Depression looming right around the corner, it was business as usual at the United States Mint in...

Colonial State Coppers by Lianna Spurrier for CoinWeek .....   Colonial coins and Federal issues are entirely different beasts, and when you’re first getting into colonials,...

This 1895 Morgan dollar forgery is a simple case of just too much silver and not enough effort on the details.   The 1895 Morgan dollar...

The Seated Liberty (or Liberty Seated) dime debuted in 1837 and underwent a number of design modifications over the course of its 54-year run....

By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek .....   In the February 1965 issue of Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine, Philadelphia coin dealer Gerald Zaid offered beautiful four-coin Saint-Gaudens-era gold...

By Louis Golino, special to CoinWeek .....   It’s that time of the year again – time to look back on some highlights from the dizzying...

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC) ......   In a discussion at the 2019 Dayton EAC Convention on counterfeits, we talked of three "families"...

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for CoinWeek.com ...... Susan B. Anthony dollars are growing on some collectors these days. Now gracefully approaching middle age, the nation’s first...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ..... Today we are going to take you on a numismatic journey to Osaka, Japan, host of...

A modern Proof coin, the United States Mint struck the 1979-S Roosevelt dime for inclusion in the annual Mint Set offered to collectors. Since...

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....   Part I | Part II * * * Iconoclasm (“image smashing”) was very popular within the Byzantine military during the...

GreatCollections is currently auctioning a much-sought-after high Gem 1943-S steel cent, graded MS 68+ by PCGS and approved by CAC as strong for the...

As the penultimate year of production in the Philadelphia Mint’s old second facility on Chestnut and Juniper streets, the 1900 $5 gold half eagle...

By Kyle Clifford Knapp for PCGS ......   Mintmarks provide an easy tool for identifying a coin's mint of origin and have been used in various...

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   A system of racial segregation in South Africa, Apartheid was first instituted in 1948 by the minority White Afrikaans...

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC) ......   I have written several CoinWeek articles on groups of counterfeits I call "families", where a genuine...

With a mintage of 217,775,000 coins, the 1949 Lincoln cent is a relatively common type. Unlike the issuances from the San Francisco and Denver...

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   In May 2000, Frank Wallis of Mountain View, Arkansas, found what has been called the “Holy Grail of U.S....

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   On July 23, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke from the White House Rose Garden announcing the Coinage Act...

PCGS MS-69 $48 – $52 Annual Rate of Return Since 2014: 1.86% PCGS POP MS-69: 12,256 Population Growth Since 2014: 112.67%▲ (MS-69 Population in 2014: 5,763) NGC MS-69 $43 – $47▲ Annual...

By Louis Golino, special to CoinWeek .....   Third-party numismatic grading is currently experiencing its most significant period of change since the launch of PCGS and...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and...

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   For thousands of years, merchants conducted business without the aid of the once-ubiquitous, and now increasingly defunct, cash register....

On August 9, 2022, Ventris C. Gibson, Director of the United States Mint, invited members of the numismatic media to a press roundtable at...

By CoinWeek .....   The month of December has historically been a time for Americans to take it easy, spend time with their family, celebrate the...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek .....   #1. David Rittenhouse (April 1792 - June 1795) The term “polymath” is usually employed to describe the...