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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

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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

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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...
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The Incredible 2000 Sacagawea Dollars

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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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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...

“Silk Purse” Coins: The 1907 High Relief Label Problem

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Unique 1906 Liberty Head Nickel Obverse Die Cap Struck on 1C Planchet

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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....

The Gold Quarter That Shouldn’t Exist: 1970-S Proof Error Heads to Auction

The 1982 No-P Roosevelt Dime: The Most Famous Modern Circulation Error

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Big Beard: The Coinage of Constans II

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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...

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The Last Duke’s Silver Coin: Peter Biron and the 1780 Courland Thaler

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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...

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The 1923 Lincoln Porthole $5 Silver Certificate: The Strange Story Behind an American Currency Classic

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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...

Only 35 Known: The 1890 $100 ‘Watermelon’ Note Returns to Auction

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CoinWeek Bullion Report: Gold Breaks $4,300 as Central Banks Buy and Hormuz Keeps Markets Guessing

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Gold Holds $4,000 as Fed Rate Gamble Rattles Precious Metals

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2026 Freedom 250 Race Medal: U.S. Mint’s IndyCar First

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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

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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...

Workers Find $10 Million Gold Hoard Hidden in Belgian Cellar Wall

Trump Returns a Sitting President to U.S. Coinage 100 Years After Coolidge

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Anthony Terranova Earns ANA’s Highest Honor as Eliasberg, Green Enter Numismatic Hall of Fame

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A Lifetime of Numismatic Rarities: Loring-Levin Collection Heads to Heritage’s 2027 FUN Auction

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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...

U.S. Mint Revives the 1804 Dollar for Best of the Mint Set – Aug 27th

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11 Legendary 1933 Double Eagles Headline $100 Million Pittsburgh World’s Fair of Money

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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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Stack’s Bowers to Offer Real Doge Coins of Venice in June Collectors Choice Auction

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By Jeremy Bostwick - Senior Numismatist & Cataloger, Stack's Bowers ...... In the news a bit recently, riding the wave of crypto-mania and through the...
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The Humble Coinage of the First Seleucid King

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Seleucus I Nicator, the founder of the Seleucid Empire, never put his own portrait on the empire’s coinage. Why?   By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   Since...
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So… What’s the Third Rarest No Motto New Orleans Eagle in High Grades?

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By Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ...... CoinWeek Content Partner It’s pretty obvious to specialists that the two rarest No Motto New Orleans eagle $10 gold coins...

Künker Celebrates Firm’s 50th Anniversary With Rare World Coins of Auction 350

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Two anniversaries at once: 1 July 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Münzenhandlung Fritz Rudolf Künker. Additionally, Künker’s 350th auction will...
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US Mint Postpones Remaining 2021 Morgan, Peace Dollar Pre-Order Windows

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Late last night, the United States Mint sent an email to its customers informing them that the previously announced pre-order windows for the remaining...
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Rare World, Shipwreck Coins Set Record Sedwick Auction

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Strong bids for rare world and shipwreck coins surpassed $4.07 million in Daniel Frank Sedwick’s May 7, 8, & 10 Treasure Auction 29. This...
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Counterfeit Coin Detection – 1875 Indian Head Cent

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Counterfeit 1875 Indian Head Cent Indian Head Cent By Max Spiegel –  Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) ...... Many Chinese counterfeits are made from dies that are...
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History Hidden in Plain Sight: Freemasons on United States Coins

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek .....   According to some, the secretive fraternity of the Freemasons is elitist and anti-democratic. Still others have...
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The Franc: A Coin, a Currency, an Orphan

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By Gilles Bransbourg for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ...... The Franc is one of the oldest and most widespread currency units in the world, currently...
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