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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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The 1994-W Vietnam Veterans Memorial Silver Dollar: The Coin That Touches the Wall

The U.S. Silver Dollar That Turns Memorial Day Into a Hand on the Vietnam Wall A hand reaches toward black granite. A fingertip rests on a...

Ephraim Brasher Regulated Brazil 1754-B 6400 Reis: EB Mark, ANS Fame, and $168,000 Result

The Ephraim Brasher regulated Brazil 1754-B 6400 Reis ranks among the most important American-related gold coins of the post-Revolutionary era. It began life as...

Counterfeit Gold Coins Filled With Platinum: Hollow Gold

The Strange Story of The Hollow Gold Scam: Counterfeit Gold Coins Filled Real $10 Eagles With Platinum By Roger W. Burdette - Updated by CoinWeek May 2026 Counterfeit...

1853-O No Arrows Half Dollar: The $15 Suitcase Coin That Survived America’s Silver Crisis

The $15 Silver Coin That Turned Out to Be a Four-Known U.S. Rarity The 1853-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar No Arrows ranks among the most...

1837 Feuchtwanger Cent: The Tiny Token That Almost Changed U.S. Coinage

The Dime-Sized 1837 Token That Almost Replaced America’s Copper Cent In 1837, Americans needed small change. They also needed confidence. The Panic of 1837 shook banks,...

$20 Million Boston Expo Display Brings PCGS All-Time Finest Walking Liberty Half Dollar Set to Public View

The Finest Walking Liberty Half Dollar Set Ever Ranked by PCGS Heads to Boston Kelleher Auctions will bring a major $20 million collectibles exhibit to...

1912-D Liberty Head Nickel: Denver’s First Nickel Comes to Auction in Superb Gem

Denver’s First Nickel: 1912-D Liberty Head Nickel in MS-66+ CAC Comes to Auction In February 1912, the Denver Mint made nickel history. For the first time,...

An Incredible Revolutionary War Discovery: The $7 Continental Currency Note with Taft Family Provenance

1776 $7 Continental Currency Note With Taft Family Provenance Links America’s Founding War to a Presidential Dynasty A newly certified 1776 $7 Continental Currency note...

The Unorthodox Tetradrachm of Perseus

The Last King of Macedon Before Rome Crushed His Kingdom Original By Tyler Rossi - Updated by CoinWeek Perseus of Macedon ruled at the edge of...

Classic Mint Errors Collectors Still Chase the U.S. Overdate Coins of the 20th Century

The Mint Mistakes That Created America’s Most Famous 20th-Century Overdate Coins Mint errors fascinate collectors, but they also create confusion. Each month, grading services and dealers...