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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...

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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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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...

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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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Peace Dollars: The Underrated Silver Dollar Series Collectors Should Reconsider

The Silver Peace Dollars Series Hiding in Morgan’s Shadow Although Peace Dollars are popular, Morgan Silver Dollars dominate the U.S. silver dollar market. Collectors love...

The 13 Rare Lincoln Cent Double Dies that Collectors Chase

A Chronology of the Lincoln Cent Double Dies Lincoln cents look familiar. That makes them powerful. Collectors know the design. Families have jars full of them....

Unique 1937 George VI Florin Die Trial Reveals Edward VIII Coinage Connection

The Coin That Never Was: Unique 1937 Florin Die Trial Tells the Edward VIII Story A remarkable Royal Mint artifact captures one of the most...

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 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 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,...

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...

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...

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...

1867 Two-Cent Piece FS-101: The Civil War Motto Coin With a Dramatic Doubled Die

The Civil War Coin Error Hidden in Plain Sight: 1867 Two-Cent Double Die The 1867 Two-Cent Piece FS-101 carries one of the most dramatic doubled...