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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...

Errors & Varieties

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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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...

U.S. Mint Launches 250,000-Coin July 4 Quarter Hunt for America’s 250th Anniversary

The U.S. Mint Just Turned a 2026 Quarter Into a 250,000-Coin Treasure Hunt Americans will soon have a new reason to check their change. The United...

Eupator’s Bosporan Stater: A Gold Coin at the Edge of Collapse

The Ancient Gold Coin That Sent Rome a Silent Distress Signal Most royal coins announce power. This one also reveals fear. A rare stater of Tiberius...

Coin Die Design for the 21st Century: Did the 2026-P Dime Break a 100-Year Mint Rule?

A Lincoln Cent Problem May Have Ended on the 2026-P Dime A 1909 letter to Victor David Brenner from Charles E. Barber still matters. At that...

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...

1916-D Mercury Dime : A Collector’s Guide

1916-D Mercury Dime: The 264,000-Coin Rarity Collectors Still Chase The 1916-D Mercury Dime is a scarce key date from the first year of an iconic American...

What’s on the Front of My Dollar Bill? A Primer

The Hidden Codes on the Front of a $1 Bill Most Americans see a $1 bill every day. Yet few people slow down long enough...

ANA 2026 World’s Fair of Money Brings Shipwreck Gold, a 1913 Liberty Nickel, and 1,700 Years of Empire to Pittsburgh

Shipwreck Gold, a 1913 Nickel, and 1,700 Years of Empire Headline ANA 2026 The American Numismatic Association will bring one of the hobby’s most ambitious...

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...

1893-S Morgan Dollar: The Panic-Year King Returns in Heritage’s Desert Find Sale

The $1 Coin Born in a Financial Panic: Why Collectors Chase the 1893-S Morgan Dollar The 1893-S Morgan dollar does not need hype. It already...