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1866 Liberty Seated Dime: The 8,000-Coin Reconstruction Rarity

Only 8,000 Were Struck: The 1866 Dime That Survived Reconstruction Only 8,000 business-strike 1866 Liberty Seated Dimes left the Philadelphia Mint. Even more remarkably, the...
Trump "July 4th" Privy Mark Discovery Coin

‘July 4th’ Privy Trump Dollar Discovered Before U.S. Mint Launch

Surprise July 4th Privy Trump Dollar Surfaces Days Before U.S. Mint Launch Heritage Auctions numismatist Rene Alvarenga discovered an unannounced “July 4th” privy-mark 2026 Donald...
1936 50C Delaware MS68 PCGS.

1936 Delaware Half Dollar: The Three-Date Coin That Sold for a Record Price

The U.S. Half Dollar With Three Dates, and a $19,200 Record Some coins tell their story with a portrait. Others rely on a famous battle,...

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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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Crayola Silver Crayon Makes Colorful Debut at ANA 2026

Crayola Just Turned Its Iconic Blue Crayon Into 1.5 Ounces of Silver An American childhood icon has entered the precious metals market. Kevin Lipton Rare Coins...

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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How the U.S. Mint Hardened and Tempered Coinage Dies

 Inside the 1877 U.S. Mint: How William Barber Kept Coin Dies From Breaking Every struck coin begins with controlled violence. A coining press forces two hardened...

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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Jack Lee 1900 Morgan Dollar in MS68 to Sell at GreatCollections

By CoinWeek .... The Philadelphia Mint struck 8,830,000 Morgan Dollars in 1900, but the New Orleans Mint eclipsed this mintage that year. In terms of...

1980-S Susan B. Anthony Dollar Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was intended to be a circulating dollar coin that would be accepted widely by the American...

Maxxed Out: Confusing Imperial Names on Roman Coins

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. In Latin, "maximus" means "the greatest," as in the name of Rome's famous chariot racing stadium, the Circus Maximus. The high priest of...

1941 Mercury Dime Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The popular Mercury Dime series was produced for circulation from 1916 through 1945, but Proof versions of the iconic Adolph Weinman...

1994 American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Demand for the 1994 American Silver Eagle marked a low point in the almost decade-long American Silver Eagle bullion coin program....

A Curious Group of American Bank Note Company Proofs

by Dennis Hengeveld for Stack's Bowers... Recently, a small group of (mostly) uniface Proofs and vignettes came in as part of a consignment for our...

United States Mint Offers Joe Biden Presidential Medal

  The United States Mint now accepts orders for the 1 5/16" and 3" medals honoring Joe Biden, the nation's 46th President. The 1 5/16"...

A Legal Tender Oddity from the Twentieth Century : Stack’s Bowers

by Bradley Charles Trotter, Stack's Bowers Currency Specialist & Lead Currency Cataloger..... A common sight at least in a numismatic context, the $100 Legal Tender...

How Do You Invest $10,000? : Jeff Garrett

By Jeff Garrett for Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) ...... The current state of the economy makes it a challenge to decide where to invest, but...

Lincoln Memorial Cent, Bronze (1959-1982) : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... What Is the Lincoln Memorial Cent? The Lincoln Memorial Cent was first issued in 1959. It...