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1792 P10C Silver Disme, Judd-9, Pollock-10 AU50 NGC

The 1792 Silver Disme: America’s First Dime Almost Vanished Before It Began

The 1792 Silver Disme Is the Dime America Almost Forgot In 1792, the United States did more than launch a Mint. It tried to prove...
1859 Liberty Seated Half Dime. MS-67+ (PCGS). CAC.

1859 Liberty Seated Half Dime: The Tiny Silver Coin With Paquet’s Hidden Hand

A Tiny 1859 Half Dime Hides One of the Mint’s Quietest Design Experiments The 1859 Liberty Seated Half Dime looks quiet at first glance. It...
1939 Walking Liberty Half Dollar carries PCGS certification number 1081336.

A $10,419 Walking Liberty Half Dollar? The PCGS White Rattler Made the Difference

The coin is common. The holder is historic. A 1939 Walking Liberty Half Dollar in PCGS MS-65 sold through GreatCollections on June 28, 2026,...

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Eye Appeal Rules Current Rare Coin Market

In the eyes of the collector, coins with eye appeal and quality are today's trend The rare coin market evolves, and many series go out...

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1971 “No S” Proof Jefferson Nickel: The Only Missing Mintmark in the Series

The 1971 No S Error - 1,655 examples - Check your Proof Sets! The 1971 “No S” Proof Jefferson Nickel (FS-501) ranks among the most...

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Celestial Twins on Ancient Coins: Castor, Pollux, and the Power of the Dioscuri

Dioscuri Ancient Coins: Castor and Pollux Shine Across Greek and Roman Coinage By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek Ancient coins carried stories. They also carried power. Few ancient...

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Strasbourg Coins and the 1518 Dancing Plague: Small Silver, Big History

The Tiny Strasbourg Coin From the Era of Europe’s Strangest Plague In July 1518, the streets of Strasbourg became the stage for one of Europe’s...

Paper Money

1899 Black Eagle Silver Certificate: A Gem Fr. 236 Takes Flight at Stack’s Bowers

The Black Eagle Dollar That Carried Silver,and Survived the Titanic Stack’s Bowers Galleries will offer a high-grade example of one of America’s most famous banknotes...

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Gold and Silver Face a New Test as the Fed Turns Hawkish

Gold and Silver Hit a New Test as Iran Risk Fades and the Fed Turns Tough Gold and silver started the week with a familiar...

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The Panama-Pacific International Exposition Award Medal

A Landmark Moment for American Exposition Medals The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition produced more high-quality numismatic designs than any American exposition before or since. The official...

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Mint Records Confirm Proof Dies Did Double Duty in 1883 and 1884

Proof Dies in Pocket Change? Mint Records Reveal an 1880s Coinage Surprise Collectors like clean categories. Proof coins belong in one box. Circulation strikes belong...

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PCGS Offers $5,000 for First 2026 July 4th Privy Quarter

A 25-Cent Coin Could Win $5,000: The Hunt for the 2026 July 4th Quarter Begins A 25-Cent Coin Could Launch the Biggest Quarter Hunt Since...

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America’s 250th Gets a Showstopper: 1921 Proof Double Eagle and Declaration Print Head to ANA 2026

  A legendary 1921 Proof Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle and rare early American artifacts from the Brian Hendelson Collection will anchor a major display at the...

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Museum Site Selection Final Approval Renews Significance of 2011 Army Commemorative Coins

Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh’s recent approval of Fort Belvoir’s North Post as the official future site of the National Museum of...

NGC Launches 100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins Registry Set

Sarasota, Florida ⎯ The NGC Collectors Society has launched a new registry set based on the recently published 100 Greatest U.S. Modern Coins by Scott...

Coin Rarities & Related Topics: Summer FUN Auction, Part 2 – Early Gold

News and Analysis on scarce coins,  markets, and the coin collecting community #61 A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds ..... The official auction of the Summer...

The Coin Analyst: Focusing on Modern Key Coins

by Louis Golino for Coin Week If you enjoy collecting modern U.S. Mint coins, it is easy to be overwhelmed by all the choices available....

Basic Tools for Buying Rare Coins in Today’s Market

By Mark Ferguson for CoinWeek – MFrarecoins.com Okay, so you’ve decided that owning rare coins for economic and personal reasons makes sense. Now, how do...

Holey Dollar Fetches Nearly Half a Million Dollars at 2011 Auction

by CoinWeek... In July 2011, Coinworks announced the record-breaking sale of an 1813 Holey Dollar for an astounding $485,000. This particular coin, Australia's first domestic...

Are MS-70 Coins “Value Traps”? – Another View

Editors Note: The following is a letter we received following publication of an article on June 23rd by Louis Golino, "Are MS-70 Coins Value...

Coin Rarities & Related Topics: The Summer FUN Auction, with emphasis upon dimes and quarters

News and Analysis of scarce coins, markets, and the collecting community #60 A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds The official auction of the Summer FUN Convention...

The Two Types of Coin Collectors

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com In my day-to-day dealings with collectors, I note at least two distinct typologies. First, there is the collector who has...

The Most Famous Ancient Coin of All

The most famous ancient coin in existence, the "Ides of March" silver denarius struck by Julius Caesar's assassin Marcus Junius Brutus, celebrating the infamous...