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Maine American Innovation $1 Coin Products Available May 16

By CoinWeek ....   Rolls and bags of the Maine American Innovation $1 coin go on sale directly from the United States Mint at noon Eastern...
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1964 Kennedy Half Dollar Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Before issuing its 1964 Proof Sets, the United States Mint had produced Proof coins for collector purchase from 1950 onward. In...
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Trade Dollar, 1873-1885 | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Trade Dollar was a silver trade coin the United States Mint struck to facilitate foreign trade. Although the Gobrecht Dollars...
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1904 Morgan Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   With the United States Mint's stockpile of silver bullion earmarked for silver dollar production waning, the Philadelphia Mint struck what would...
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Liberty Seated Half Dollar, Arrows at Date (1854-1855) | CoinWeek

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The California Gold Rush so upset the balance of the gold-to-silver ratio that the cost of silver compared to gold had...

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The Coins of Antoninus Pius

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little...

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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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New Book Published on Fascinating Naseby Cup and the Coins It Contains

The Naseby Cup is an elaborately crafted silver drinking vessel that stands over two feet tall and is decorated with rare coins and medals...

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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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PNG to Allow Non-Dealers to Join With New Rule Changes

Made possible by recent changes to its Bylaws, the nonprofit Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) now offers membership to a wider range of workers in...

Dr. Pauli Murray American Women Quarters Begin Shipping Jan. 2

The first circulating 2024 American Women Quarters will be shipped out of the United States Mint starting January 2. Struck by the Philadelphia and...

Dates on Ancient Coins

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz ..... “Why put a date on a coin?” Most suggest that the mint used a date to monitor...

Legendary Coin Dealer John B. Love Has Passed Away

By CoinWeek Staff Reports .....   Longtime coin dealer John B. Love passed away on December 19, 2023, at his home in Whitefish, Montana. He was...

The Big Impact of Small Coin Collectors

By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   The Philadelphia Mint began selling sets of special coins to collectors in 1858. The new policy was...

Rare Chance to Own Tied-for-Finest Proof DCAM 1951 Franklin Half Dollar

Among the 14-year run of Franklin half dollar Proofs, the second-year 1951 Franklin Proof is second only to the key date (and first-year issue)...

1904 St. Louis World’s Fair Coins and Medals Struck by the U.S. Mint

By Vic Bozarth for PCGS ......   In part four of this series, we arrive at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, for which...

Stack’s Bowers Nov. 2023 Whitman Auction Earns Near $23 Million

The November 2023 Whitman Coin Expo auction held by Stack’s Bowers Galleries focused on U.S. coins, paper money, tokens, medals, and physical cryptocurrency. Live...

The 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent and How it Changed the Hobby: CoinWeek Streaming News

CoinWeek Streaming News is brought to you by NGC. For information about NGC’s current grading specials and services, as well as to look up certs,...

1857 Flying Eagle Cent “Varieties” – Jack Young’s Fun With Fakes

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC), and the Dark Side Group ......   A new installment of my CoinWeek exclusive series documents three different...

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