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1936 Arkansas Robinson Half Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The abuses of the classic commemorative coin era reached full steam in the 1930s as competing promoters pushed Congress to pass...
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1992-S Proof American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Enthusiasm for Proof American Silver Eagles waned from 1991 to the end of the decade, which is surprising given how important...
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1980-D Susan B. Anthony Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... In 1979, one year prior to the issue of the 1980-D Susan B. Anthony dollar, the small clad dollar was released...
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1797 Capped Bust Eagle, Heraldic Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   After producing a small number (between 1,250 and 3,615) of 1797-dated Capped Bust Eagle coins with the Small Eagle reverse, the...
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1797 Capped Bust Eagle, Small Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Just five years after the founding of the United States Mint, the 1797 Capped Bust Eagle is already the third...

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On April 2, 2024, United States Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX24), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a technical correction...

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Modern Quarters Worth Money

By CoinWeek .... Have you ever looked through your change, wondering if any of the coins you have might be valuable? Some of them are....

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Ten Powerful and Beautiful Women on Coins

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   Janina Żółtowska The first woman on this list, depicted on the Polish 2, 5, and 10 Zlote coins between 1932...

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Costco Gold Bars Earn Almost 25% Return for Early Buyers

By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ....   Since the summer of 2023, Costco has offered its members 24-carat, .9999 fine PAMP Suisse 1oz gold bars, both...

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Medal Alignment – One Way to Orient Obverse and Reverse

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   (n.) To say that a numismatic object--specifically a round object made of metal with designs engraved...

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1982 Lincoln Memorial Cent : A Collector’s Guide | CoinWeek

1982 was a landmark year for the United States one-cent coin, as the metallic composition of the coin was changed from bronze to copper-plated...

Early Modern World Coins: The Ottoman Kuruş and the Control of Money

By Ellen Nye and David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ...... In August 2018, as the country of Turkey faced a currency crisis, its...

The 1898 “Single 9” Pond: South Africa’s Rarest Gold Coin

Most serious coin collectors in South Africa have heard about the Single 9, commonly referred to as the “King of South African Coins.” However...

The Fascinating World of Saint Lambert Communion Tokens

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   Popularized in the 1560s by French Huguenots and Scottish Presbyterians, communion tokens quickly became a staple of northern Calvinism....

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By Chris Bulfinch for CoinWeek ..... GreatCollections (GC) is auctioning a physical bitcoin created by Casascius Coins. Dated 2011, the 25-bitcoin coin is certified MS-67...

Condition Rarity vs. Absolute Rarity in Coin Collecting

By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... CoinWeek Content Partner In numismatics, there are essentially two types of coins. There are coins that are condition rarities and there...

A New Pattern From Germany of the Yunnan Dragon Dollar

Heidelberger Münzhandlung presents a new testimony to the active cooperation between China and Germany: a pattern of the Dragon Dollar for Yunnan, produced with...

Royal Canadian Mint Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Bluenose With Circulating Coin First

For the first time since Bluenose appeared on Canada’s 10-cent circulation coin in 1937, the Royal Canadian Mint has re-designed the image of the...

A Brief History of the Swiss Shooting Thaler

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ..... Switzerland, a country known today as the land of neutrality, was once one of the world’s most militant cultures,...

Stack’s Bowers Offering Newly Discovered Minneapolis 1918 $500 Federal Reserve Note

By Christopher Dahncke - Currency Auction Associate, Stack's Bowers Galleries ...... The November 2021 United States Currency Auction from Stack's Bowers Galleries is now available...

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