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1916 Mercury Dime: America’s First Modern Dime Still Rewards Sharp Eyes

1916 Mercury Dime: The Common First-Year Coin With a Five-Figure Secret The 1916 Mercury Dime looks modest at first glance but it is a small...
1969-S Lincoln Cent. FS-101. Doubled Die Obverse. MS-64 RD (PCGS). CAC.

1969-S Doubled Die Lincoln Cent: A Coin the Secret Service Thought Was Fake

The Secret Service Thought It Was A Fake The 1969-S Doubled Die Lincoln Cent stands among the most dramatic modern U.S. Mint errors. It also...
1891-CC Morgan Silver Dollar. MS-65+ (PCGS). CAC.

1891-CC Morgan Dollar: The Carson City Gem That Escaped the Treasury Vaults

Stack’s Marketplace Offers a PCGS MS-65+ CAC Carson City Morgan Dollar The 1891-CC Morgan Silver Dollar tells a very different Carson City story. At first glance,...

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Inflation’s Impact on the Coin Market

By Jeff Garrett for Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) ...... For decades, inflation in the United States has been a key consideration for anyone considering investing...

Errors & Varieties

1969-S Doubled Die Lincoln Cent: A Coin the Secret Service Thought Was Fake

The Secret Service Thought It Was A Fake The 1969-S Doubled Die Lincoln Cent stands among the most dramatic modern U.S. Mint errors. It also...

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Ancient Coins

The Lydian Lion Trite: The First Official Coin and the Birth of Money

Before coinage, money had weight. Then Lydia gave it a face. That face belonged to a roaring lion. It appeared on a small lump of...

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 A Small Baltic Duchy With an Outsized Story In the middle of the 18th century,...

Paper Money

1914 $20 Federal Reserve Note: The “Horse Blanket” That Launched Modern Money

The 1914 “Horse Blanket” $20 That Launched Modern Money A century ago, the American $20 bill looked nothing like the one in your wallet. It was...

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Gold Tests $4,000 as Silver Defends $60 in a Market Suddenly Ruled by Rates

Gold’s $4,000 Line in the Sand: Why Silver’s $60 Test Matters Too Gold and silver entered Thursday’s session with a simple question on the tape. Would...

Medals & Tokens

Indian Peace Medals: Important and Historic Collectibles

Indian Peace Medals: Russ Augustin Explores Rare U.S. History Video with Russell Augustin   Indian Peace Medals rank among the most historic objects in American numismatics. They...

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The Five Traits Behind Every Great Coin Collection

How to Build the Next Legendary Numismatic Cabinet By John Kraljevich - Rewritten for CoinWeek Great coin collections rarely begin with money alone. They begin with a...

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Dennis Tucker Joins CSNS Board in Major Win for Collector Education

A Red Book Veteran Joins CSNS Leadership and Collectors Should Pay Attention Award-winning numismatist Dennis Tucker has joined the Central States Numismatic Society Board of...

Dealers & Industry

2026 Semiquincentennial Silver Proof Set Brings Liberty, Silver, and a Historic Lincoln Cent Together

Liberty Returns, Silver Shines, and the Lincoln Cent Enters a New Era The United States Mint will open sales for the 2026 Semiquincentennial Silver Proof...

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PNG Adds Dealer Day to November Baltimore Expo

Dealers Get a New Wholesale Trading Day Before Whitman’s Big November Show The Professional Numismatists Guild will add a PNG Dealer Day to the November...

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Recent News & Articles

Gold Coins With “MLD” – Multiple Levels of Demand

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com In my 25+ years of specializing in United States gold coins, I have noticed some interesting trends as far as...

US Mint Taken to Task for Outsourcing Bullion Blanks and Attitude

Four witnesses testifying before House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology agreed that the US MINT loses at least...

Rare Coin Road Warrior with Vic Bozarth

In this month’s RCRW, (April 2011) I am going to discuss shows just concluded in March as well as upcoming shows in April and...

New Coin Books: Early Quarter Dollars of the United States Mint 1796-1838

Early Quarter Dollars of the United States Mint 1796-1838 is the culmination of over a decade of research by the authors into the early...

AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY UNVEILS MANTIS: A MAJOR NUMISMATIC RESEARCH TOOL

American Numismatic Society Director Ute Wartenberg Kagan today unveiled the new interactive ANS collection search tool, MANTIS. MANTIS (Mantis: A Numismatic Technologies Integration Service)...

The First Stack’s-Bowers Auction, Part 1, Copper and Silver

News and Analysis regarding scarce coins and coin markets #47 A Weekly Column by Greg Reynolds As I reported in my column on The Ten Leading...

Islamic Coin Sells For £3.7 Million In Morton & Eden Sale – Second Most Expensive Coin Ever Sold at Auction

Second most expensive coin ever sold at auction One of the rarest and most highly-prized of all Islamic gold coins, struck possibly to coincide with...

Sedwick’s Treasure And World Coin Auction #9 Is Now Online !

Scheduled for April 26-28 (Tuesday-Thursday), in six sessions LIVE on the Internet, Daniel Frank Sedwick's Treasure and World Coin Auction #9 is ready for...

Ancient Coin Import Restrictions: Relegated to Insignificance

By Wayne Sayles - Ancient Coin Collecting ..... In reading documents recently released to ACCG under the Freedom of Information Act, it struck me as...

Class-action suit accuses UBS of Charging Storage Fees On “Phantom” Silver.

In 1984, Michigan resident Laurin Ramsey purchased 10 pieces of 100 ounce pure silver bars from the Swiss bank UBS or its Paine Webber...