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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

“Silk Purse” Coins: The 1907 High Relief Label Problem

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

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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....

The Gold Quarter That Shouldn’t Exist: 1970-S Proof Error Heads to Auction

The 1982 No-P Roosevelt Dime: The Most Famous Modern Circulation Error

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Big Beard: The Coinage of Constans II

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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...

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The Only Ancient Coin Ever Struck with Egyptian Hieroglyphics

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

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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...

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

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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...

Only 35 Known: The 1890 $100 ‘Watermelon’ Note Returns to Auction

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

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Gold Holds $4,000 as Fed Rate Gamble Rattles Precious Metals

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

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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...

ANA’s ‘Flame of Freedom’ Silver Medal Brings a Powerful America 250 Message to Pittsburgh

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

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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...

Workers Find $10 Million Gold Hoard Hidden in Belgian Cellar Wall

Trump Returns a Sitting President to U.S. Coinage 100 Years After Coolidge

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

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

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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...

U.S. Mint Revives the 1804 Dollar for Best of the Mint Set – Aug 27th

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

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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...

Joel Iskowitz’s Final Coin Design Headlines Free 2026 ANA World’s Fair of Money Giveaway

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Mike Byers Mint Error News – Kennedy Half Dollar Struck on Magnetic Planchet

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1968-S Kennedy Half Dollar Struck on 125 grain (8.1 gram) Magnetic Planchet PCGS Proof 62 Ex Fred Weinberg Collection UNIQUE * * * There are many major mint errors known...
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1883-CC Morgan Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Carson City Mint struck 1,204,000 Morgan Dollars in 1883. The majority were held by...
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1834 Capped Bust Quarter : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   After a two-year hiatus, the quarter dollar returned in 1831. For its return, United States Mint Chief Engraver William Kneass...
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GreatCollections Offers Collectors the Chance to Obtain a Top Pop 1941 Mercury Dime Proof

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By CoinWeek ....   For Mercury Dime collectors, December starts off strong at GreatCollections as bidding ends on the first for this toned, top-pop Proof 1941...
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American Tokens and Medals in November 25 Heritage Auction

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The November 25 Certified American Tokens and Medals Showcase Auction from Heritage Auctions offers another selection of outstanding tokens and medals, including a Libertas...
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Rare Germantown $1 Note Graded By Professional Coin Grading Service

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Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) recently graded a magnificent and obsolete 1862 Bank of Germantown $1 note from Philadelphia. Boasting phenomenal surface quality, this...
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Coin Collector Finds Rare Lincoln Memorial Cent Error in Proof Set

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By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek .....   Last month, coin collector and CoinWeek reader Johnny Bowen emailed me to ask my opinion about an unusual Lincoln...
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Newly Discovered 1652 New England Threepence Brings Record $2.52 Million

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A small silver coin about the size of a nickel, struck in Boston in 1652, set a world record on Monday, November 18, 2024,...
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1939-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   After not producing half dollars in 1938, the San Francisco Mint struck 2,552,000 examples of the denomination in 1939. This made...
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1847 Liberty Head Quarter Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Liberty Head Quarter Eagles were struck at all four United States Mint facilities in 1847. The 1847-D Liberty Head Quarter Eagle...
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