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1976-S Kennedy Half Dollar Proof. Image: NGC / CoinWeek.

1976-S Kennedy Half Dollar Clad Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The 1976-S Bicentennial Kennedy Half Dollar Clad Proof is one of five 1976 Bicentennial Half Dollars the United States Mint struck...
1805 Draped Bust Half Dollar. Image: Heritage Auctions / CoinWeek.

Draped Bust Half Dollar, Heraldic Eagle (1801-1807) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Draped Bust Small Eagle Half Dollar was minted for just two years, as was...
1883 Hawaii Silver Dollar PCGS MS-68 (CAC). Image: GreatCollections.

Rare Chance to Own Top Pop 1883 Hawaii Silver Dollar at GreatCollections

By CoinWeek ....   GreatCollections is offering collectors the rare opportunity to own one of the finest 1883 Hawaiian-issue silver dollars. Graded MS68 by PCGS and...
1854 Liberty Seated Dollar. Image: Stack' Bowers / CoinWeek.

1854 Liberty Seated Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Silver dollar coinage resumed in 1840 with the Liberty Seated design. For the first decade of the denomination's reintroduction, the Philadelphia...
1804 Draped Bust Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers.

Draped Bust Dollar, Heraldic Eagle (1798-1804) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Draped Bust Dollar design debuted in 1795 as part of the United States Mint's...
1898 Proof Barber Half Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Barber Half Dollar, 1892-1915 | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Mint Act of 1890 allowed for the changing of coin designs every 25 years,...
2006-W American Silver Eagle Burnished. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

2006-W American Silver Eagle Burnished : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   When the American Silver Eagle debuted in 1986, the United States Mint had Congressional authorization to produce a bullion version with...
1934-S Peace Dollar. Image: Heritage Auctions / CoinWeek.

1934-S Peace Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Peace Dollar was struck continuously from 1921 to 1928, after which no silver dollars...
2011-P American Silver Eagle Reverse Proof. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

2011-P American Silver Eagle Reverse Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The United States Mint's curation of the collector versions of the American Silver Eagle bullion...
2006-P American Silver Eagle Reverse Proof. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

2006-P American Silver Eagle Reverse Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The 2006-P Reverse Proof American Silver Eagle was sold exclusively as part of the United...
1950 Franklin Half Dollar Proof. Image: DLRC / CoinWeek.

1950 Franklin Half Dollar Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Franklin Half Dollar type replaced the Liberty Walking design of Adolph Weinman in 1948....
2008-W American Silver Eagle Burnished with Reverse of 2007. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

2008-W Burnished American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   For the third consecutive year, the United States Mint offered its numismatic customers burnished American Silver Eagles struck at the West...
1873 Trade Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1873 Trade Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Throughout history, certain coins, often silver ones like the trade dollar, have circulated around large geographical regions far from their place...
1999-P American Silver Eagle Proof. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1999-P Proof American Silver Eagle

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The 1999-P American Silver Eagle Proof was the second-to-last regular Proof issue struck at the Philadelphia Mint before production was moved...
1795 Draped Bust Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Draped Bust Dollar, Small Eagle (1795-1798) : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The year 1795 marked the second year of U.S. silver dollar production, and the United...
1870 Liberty Seated Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Liberty Seated Dollar, With Motto (1866-1873) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Liberty Seated Dollar design, which debuted in 1840, was largely out of circulation when...
1845 Liberty Seated Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Liberty Seated Dollar, No Motto (1840-1866) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   When the production of silver dollar coinage was suspended during the Jefferson Administration, the United...
1997-P American Silver Eagle Proof. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1997-P Proof American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   In 1997, the United States Mint added the American Platinum Eagle to its bullion coin program. The new product was authorized...
1996-P American Silver Eagle Proof. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1996-P American Silver Eagle Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The United States Mint set the production limit for the 1996-P American Silver Eagle Proof at 500,000 pieces and sold through...
2003 American Silver Eagle. Image: CoinWeek.

2003 American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The West Point Mint produced 8,495,008 2003 American Silver Eagle bullion coins, but as is tradition, the bullion version does not...

Making the Peace Dollar, Part Three: Victory or Disgrace

By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   Part One | Part Two | Part Three * * * By December 20, photos of Mint Director Raymond...
1849 Liberty Seated Half Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Liberty Seated Half Dollar, No Motto With Drapery (1839-1866) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Liberty Seated design was first seen on Christian Gobrecht's silver dollar in 1836, the...
1936 Long Island Half Dolllar reverse Galvano. Image: Mike Byers / CoinWeek.

Unique 1936 Long Island Half Dollar Plaster and Galvanos Surface After 88 Years

By Mike Byers for Mint Error News ......   1936 Long Island Tercentenary Commemorative Half Dollar 14-Inch Reverse Plaster 10-Inch Obverse & Reverse Galvanos Privately Owned by Designer Howard...
1928-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1928-S Walking Liberty Half Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   While the Walking Liberty Half Dollar was well received by the public, a general lack of demand and the silver dollar...
1865 Liberty Seated Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1865 Liberty Seated Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Although conceived as the lynchpin of the American monetary system, the silver dollar proved too cumbersome, too frequently exported, and, by...
2002-W American Silver Eagle. Image: CoinWeek.

2002-W American Silver Eagle Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Proof American Silver Eagle debuted in 1986, and with the expectation of only one year (2009), Proofs have been struck...
Roger Burdette's Making the Peace Dollar, Part Two.

Making the Peace Dollar, Part Two: Round of Approval

Adapted and updated from Renaissance of American Coinage 1916-1921   By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   Part One | Part Two | Part Three * *...
2000 American Silver Eagle. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

2000 American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   After strong demand in 1999, the bullion strike 2000 American Silver Eagle achieved sales matched only by the 1987 issue. In...
The official souvenir medal (HK-299-304). Confusion reigned when limited edition medals struck by a fly-by-night firm calling itself the Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Co. began selling round and octagonal medals featuring the crowned head of French monarch Saint Louis done in the style of the Isabella Quarter. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Spotlight on So-Called Dollars

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek .....   It is said that New York coin dealer Thomas Elder first coined the term “So-Called Dollar”...
Making the Peace Dollar, Part 1.

Making the Peace Dollar, Part One: Stuck in Committee

Adapted and updated from Renaissance of American Coinage 1916-1921   By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   Part One | Part Two | Part Three * *...