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The 1942 Glass Cent Pattern: The WWII Penny That Almost Shattered in America’s Pocket

The WWII Penny Made of Glass: America’s Strangest Cent Pattern In 1942, the United States Mint faced a wartime problem that reached all the way...
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1915-S Panama-Pacific Half Dollar: The Silver Coin That Marked San Francisco’s Comeback

The Half Dollar That Celebrated San Francisco’s Miraculous Comeback On April 18, 1906, San Francisco woke to disaster. A massive earthquake struck before dawn. Then fires...
Mysterious “E”, “L” Counterstamps on Capped Bust Quarters Intrigue Numismatists

Mysterious “E”, “L” Counterstamps on Capped Bust Quarters Intrigue Numismatists

The Tiny “E” and “L” Counterstanps That Turned Two Early U.S. Quarters Into a 140-Year Mystery By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for PCGS ...... Originally based on reporting...

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Great CAC-pectations: Collecting U.S. Gold Coins by CAC Approval

CAC Gold Coins By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... The Impossible CAC Gold Set? Rare U.S. Gold Coins That Stop Even Elite Collectors A new type...

Errors & Varieties

The Only U.S. Gold Coin Struck on an Elliptical Planchet

The “Football-Shaped” Gold Eagle: A Unique U.S. Mint Error A unique 2023 $5 Gold Eagle mint error shows how one tiny failure in the blanking...

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Thrymsas: The Tiny Gold Coins That Launched Anglo-Saxon England’s Money

Before Pennies, England Had Thrymsas: Tiny Gold Coins With a Huge Backstory By Mike Markowitz After Rome’s power faded in western Europe, gold still spoke. Small gold...

World Coins

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...

Paper Money

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...

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Maryland Restores Gold and Silver Tax Exemption After Dealer Backlash

Coin Dealers Win Stunning Reversal on Gold and Silver Tax By Sound Money Defense League Maryland has reversed one of the most controversial tax changes to...

Medals & Tokens

Indian Peace Medals: Important and Historic Collectibles

Indian Peace Medals: Russ Augustin Explores Rare U.S. History Video with Russell Augustin   Indian Peace Medals rank among the most historic objects in American numismatics. They...

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The Five Traits Behind Every Great Coin Collection

How to Build the Next Legendary Numismatic Cabinet By John Kraljevich - Rewritten for CoinWeek Great coin collections rarely begin with money alone. They begin with a...

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IAPN Congress in Rome: Coin Dealers Gather Where Ancient Money Once Moved the Empire

Coin Dealers Gather in Rome Where Nero’s Port Once Fed an Empire By Jeff Garrett The 2026 IAPN Congress in Rome gave the rare coin trade something...

Dealers & Industry

Only 7,500: U.S. Mint’s 2026-W Gold Eagle Brings Saint-Gaudens Liberty Into America’s 250th Year

The 7,500-Coin Gold Eagle Bringing Saint-Gaudens Liberty Into 2026 The United States Mint will open sales for one of its most important 2026 American Eagle...

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$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...

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2023 Gibraltar Gold Lady Justice £10: A Modern Icon of Justice in 24K Gold

In 2023, the Scottsdale Mint delivered one of the most compelling modern gold issues on the market. The 2023 Gibraltar Gold Lady Justice £10...

Stack’s Bowers Spring 2026 Rarities Night

1792 Silver Center Cent Headlines Rarities Night When the Whitman Spring Expo opens in Baltimore this March, the numismatic market will turn its full attention...

Coinage of Ancient Apulia, Italy: Silver, Bronze, and a Forgotten Hellenized Frontier

By Steve Benner A Forgotten Frontier of Magna Graecia Ancient Apulia lay along the eastern Adriatic coast of the Italian peninsula, just north of the “heel”...

The Boston Mint and the First Colonial Coins

By Tyler Rossi  - Updated and reformatted by CoinWeek, March 2026 Why the Massachusetts Bay Colony Began Striking Its Own Coins in 1652 How did the...

New observations in the chronology of Roman Legion XV countermarks

By Andrew Caldarone - Aegean Numismatics Use of countermarks on ancient coins As with modern coins, countermarks were sometimes applied to ancient coins. An ancient Greek city...

The Bicentennial $2 Bill – First of a Kind

Series 1976 $2 Bill: History, Value, and Collectability  In the mid-1970s, the United States celebrated 200 years of independence from Great Britain. As a result,...

How Proof Gold Coins Are Graded Differently Than Business Strikes

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com Proof Gold Coin Grading vs. Business Strikes What Every Collector Needs to Understand  To fully understand Proof gold coin grading, we must...

Precious Metals Reporting Requirements: What Every Gold and Silver Investor Must Know in 2026

  Precious Metals Reporting Requirements in 2026 Rumors move fast in the metals market. In recent months, investors have circulated claims that the federal reporting threshold for...

Legendary 1943-S Bronze Lincoln Cent Returns to the Market

On March 10, 2026, one of the most famous wrong-planchet errors in American numismatics  crossed the auction block.  Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered this 1943-S...

1878-CC Morgan Silver Dollar in PCGS MS-67

1878-CC Morgan Silver Dollar: A Frontier Rarity  The 1878-CC Morgan Silver Dollar stands at the beginning of one of America’s most collected coin series. More...