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1857-S $20 Liberty Head Double Eagle PCGS MS-65 Spiked Shield

1857-S Spiked Shield Double Eagle: A Gem Survivor of the S.S. Central America

This Gem 1857-S Double Eagle Survived a Hurricane and 131 Years Beneath the Atlantic Some rare coins survive history. Others seem to survive the impossible. This...
1889-CC Morgan Silver Dollar. MS-63 (PCGS). CAC. CMQ.

1889-CC Morgan Dollar: The King of Carson City Returns in CAC-Approved MS-63

Only 350,000 Were Made: This CAC 1889-CC Morgan Dollar Is a Carson City Legend Some Morgan dollars owe their fame to tiny mintages. Others owe...
2025-W 24 Karat Gold Sacagawea Dollar. Image: United States Mint / CoinWeek.

The Incredible 2000 Sacagawea Dollars

By Jeff Garret Want to collect this series? Start with the remarkable group of inaugural 2000 issues and decide how far your budget can take you. The...

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Top 10 U.S. Coins That Tell the Story of America

Coins are more than metal, they’re artifacts of the nation's history. Each design reveals something about America’s identity, values, economic challenges, and changing societal...

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Unique 1906 Liberty Head Nickel Obverse Die Cap Struck on 1C Planchet

Unique 1906 Liberty Head Nickel Die Cap Struck on an Indian Head Cent Planchet By Mike Byers - Mint Error News I have handled more U.S....

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Ancient Coins

Big Beard: The Coinage of Constans II

The Byzantine Emperor Whose Beard Grew Across His Coins “As presented to us by the scanty records of his time, the man we are led...

World Coins

The Last Duke’s Silver Coin: Peter Biron and the 1780 Courland Thaler

The Last Duke’s Silver Coin Before Russia Took Courland By Lev Moiseev - Updated 8-12-26 A Small Baltic Duchy With an Outsized Story In the middle of...

Paper Money

The 1923 Lincoln Porthole $5 Silver Certificate: The Strange Story Behind an American Currency Classic

The $5 Bill With Lincoln in a “Porthole”, and the Treasury Secret Hidden for Decades Few American banknotes command attention as quickly as the 1923...

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CoinWeek Bullion Report: Gold Breaks $4,300 as Central Banks Buy and Hormuz Keeps Markets Guessing

Gold has rediscovered its momentum. However, the reason tells a bigger story than another week of rising bullion prices. Gold jumped more than 7% last...

Medals & Tokens

2026 Freedom 250 Race Medal: U.S. Mint’s IndyCar First

U.S. Mint Puts Washington’s First IndyCar Race on a Half Dollar Planchet For one weekend in August, Indy cars will thunder past the monuments of...

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Morgan and Peace Dollars Get a 250th-Anniversary Makeover: Enhanced Uncirculated Coins Launch August 25

Two of America’s most celebrated silver dollar designs return on August 25 with a distinctly 2026 twist. The 2026 Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars Enhanced...

Clubs & Orgs

Anthony Terranova Earns ANA’s Highest Honor as Eliasberg, Green Enter Numismatic Hall of Fame

The American Numismatic Association will honor three major figures in American numismatics during the 2026 World’s Fair of Money in Pittsburgh. Renowned early American coin...

Dealers & Industry

A Lifetime of Numismatic Rarities: Loring-Levin Collection Heads to Heritage’s 2027 FUN Auction

1792 Birch Cent, 1854-S Gold Headline the Loring-Levin Collection at Heritage FUN 2027 A collecting partnership that reaches deep into the history of American numismatics...

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11 Legendary 1933 Double Eagles Headline $100 Million Pittsburgh World’s Fair of Money

Eleven of America’s most notorious gold coins will come together in public for the first time this month. The United States Mint will bring all...

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Coin World’s Most Influential People in Numismatics Recognizes Professional Coin Grading Service Luminaries

Those being honored at Professional Coin Grading Service are multiple-time inductees. Two longtime figures at Professional Coin Grading Service were recently recognized by Coin World when...

Flying Eagle Cent, 1856-1858 | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Large Cent Gives Way to the Small Cent By the early 1850s, copper was limited, and the price of the raw...

2022-P Sally Ride American Women Quarter : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Officially released on March 22, 2022, the 2022-P Sally Ride American Women Quarter was the second coin released in the 20-coin...

Hobby Mourns Silver Dollar Expert John Highfill

Coin dealer, author, and hobby group founder once helped rescue singer Donny Osmond from exuberant fans. Tulsa, Oklahoma, rare coin dealer John Highfill, founder of...

Caught Between Empires: Coins of Sardinia

By Dr. Steve Benner for CoinWeek ….. When I began researching this article, I was aware of Sardinia's rich 8,000-year history, but I hadn't realized how limited the information...

Capped Bust Right Quarter Eagle, With Stars (1796-1807) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... A Humble Start for Quarter Eagle Coinage The Mint Act of 1792 established the new federal mint and authorized the production of...

The Most Beautiful Clocks of Europe on New Collector Coins

by the Mint of Poland... The Mint of Poland has issued a new collection of coins denominated in euros. The City Hall Clocks series is dedicated...

1933-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Domestic coin demands increased slightly in 1933, prompting the San Francisco Mint to strike 1,786,000 Walking Liberty Half Dollars in 1933,...

1977-D Roosevelt Dime : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Coinage production at the United States Mint got off to a rocky start in January 1977, as a natural gas shortage...

Three-Cent Silver, Type 3 (1859-1873) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Type 1 | Type 2 | Type 3 * * * The Type 2 design modification of the Three-Cent Silver coin failed to...