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1958-D Lincoln Wheat Cent : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Lincoln Wheat Cent was set to enter its 50th year of production in 1959. The date marked the sesquicentennial of...
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2012-D Acadia National Park Quarter : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The 2012-D Acadia National Park Quarter was the third America the Beautiful (ATB) quarter design released in the program's third year...
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1991-S Proof American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Collector demand for the 1991-S Proof American Silver Eagle was down 26% from the year before, even as the United States...
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Liberty Head Half Eagle, No Motto (1839-1866) | CoinWeek

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... In the late 1830s, United States Mint Director Robert M. Patterson had Engraver Christian Gobrecht update...
2024 American Gold Eagles Out May 2. Image: U.S. Mint / CoinWeek.

2024 American Eagle Gold Proof Coins Available May 2

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By CoinWeek ....   Product options for the 2024 American Gold Eagle Proof coin (collectible versions of the annual bullion coin) will be available for purchase...

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Bill Introduced to Facilitate Lawful Trade of Ancient Coins

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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...

Roman Household Gods on Coins

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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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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

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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

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(n.) To say that a numismatic object--specifically a round object made of metal with designs engraved on two faces--is in medal alignment means that the...

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Sacagawea Dollar (2000-Present) : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Sacagawea Dollar Follows More Than Two Centuries of Dollar Coin Flops Over the course of...
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MS64 : The In-Between Grade

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MS64 is an in-between grade that splits the difference between MS63 (Choice) and MS65 (Gem). On January 1, 1986, NCI (Numismatic Certification Institute), a Dallas,...
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Selvage – A US Paper Money Security Feature

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(n.) The term selvage refers to the extra paper around the edge of paper money before it is cut – sometimes used as a security...
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Terminal Point and How It Impacts Certified Coins

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(n.) The "terminal point" is the highest possible grade where the cost of submitting a coin to a third-party grading service is still higher than...
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Spurious Set – Collecting Coins by Theme

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(n.) As used by coin writer Susan Headley, a spurious set is any set of coins that lack a true relationship to each other except...
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Guilloché – The Intricate Web Pattern on Paper Money

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(n.) Guilloché (pronounced “GEE-uh-shay” with a hard g) is a word borrowed from the fields of jewelry and metalworking that is frequently encountered when dealing...
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Love Tokens Were Once Popular Valentine’s Day Gifts

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By CoinWeek .....   Love tokens are a class of numismatic collectible, where one or sometimes both sides of a coin have been smoothed down and...
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1838-O Capped Bust Half Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

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The 1838-O Capped Bust half dollar is one of the greatest rarities in all of American coinage. Its origins are enigmatic. Ranked in the...
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Fairmont Gold Coins, Part III: The Ungraded Fairmonts

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By Richard Radick for Douglas Winter Numismatics (DWN) ...... In the first piece in this series, I distinguished three categories of coins in the Fairmont...
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John Wayne Congressional Gold Medal (1980) : A Collector’s Guide

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The United States Congress awarded American actor John Wayne a Congressional Gold Medal in 1979, but the medal wasn’t completed until after his death....
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