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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...

News and More

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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*NO* Fun With Fakes – An AliExpress Moment: Jack Young

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC), and the Dark Side Group ......   A little departure from my usual articles, this one focuses on...

Auction Of Historic 1869 Carson City Mint Scale That Weighed Tons of Silver and Gold

A large, 155-year-old balance scale that weighed hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and silver in the 19th century at the Carson City,...

Rarities From Elite Collections in Heritage US Coins Auction

An assemblage of rare coins from several elite collections and more than 140 consignors is poised to make the Heritage November 20-24 US Coins...

2025 ANS Gala to Honor New York International Numismatic Convention

The Board of Trustees of the American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce the 2025 Trustees’ Award to the New York International Numismatic...

Stack’s Bowers to Present Rarity-Laden Darrel O. Neidigh, Jr. Collection

Stack’s Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce the upcoming sale of the Darrel Overton Neidigh, Jr. Collection as part of the firm’s November 2024...

Mike Byers Mint Error News – Double Struck San Francisco Walking Liberty Half Dollar

19XX-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar Double Struck 90% Off-Center (Actually Struck 85% Off-Center) Die Struck Both Sides PCGS AU53 Rare S-Mint - Only Three Known * * * This is one...

The Arthur B. Stewart Collection of United States Coins – Stack’s, May 4-6, 1972

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Arthur B. Stewart was a coin collector originally from Pennsylvania but who later lived in Baltimore, Maryland. He was introduced to...

CAC Coins and CACG Bring Higher Premiums in October 2024

CAC-approved and CACG-encapsulated coins fared well in public sales during the month of October 2024. Here are 10 examples, which were selected from a...

Spectacular 1850 Baldwin “Horseman” $10 in Stack’s Bowers Nov. Auction

By Greg Cohen - Senior Numismatist, Stack's Bowers Galleries ......   Among the most distinctive of all coins struck using the gold mined in the American...

230th Anniversary Flowing Hair High Relief Gold Coin on Sale November 14

  The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the 230th Anniversary Flowing Hair High Relief Gold Coin on November 14 at noon EST....