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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

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

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...
2025-W 24 Karat Gold Sacagawea Dollar. Image: United States Mint / CoinWeek.

The Incredible 2000 Sacagawea Dollars

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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Top 10 U.S. Coins That Tell the Story of America

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...

Errors & Varieties

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

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....

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Ancient Coins

Big Beard: The Coinage of Constans II

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...

World Coins

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

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...

Paper Money

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

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...

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Bullion

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

Gold has rediscovered its momentum. However, the reason tells a bigger story than another week of rising bullion prices. Gold jumped more than 7% last...

Medals & Tokens

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

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

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...

Clubs & Orgs

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

The American Numismatic Association will honor three major figures in American numismatics during the 2026 World’s Fair of Money in Pittsburgh. Renowned early American coin...

Dealers & Industry

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

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...

Coin Shows

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

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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Proof-Only US Gold Coins

Proof-Only U.S. Gold Coins Struck at Philadelphia (1795–1933) Between 1795 and 1933, the Philadelphia Mint produced just seven gold coins that were struck exclusively as...

PNG Dealer Day Scheduled for April 22, 2026, Ahead of CSNS Convention

The Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) will host a dealers-only PNG Dealer Day on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in conjunction with the 87th annual Central...

The Finest Known 1828/7 Half Eagle: Rediscovering the Flanagan-Bell Coin

A Hidden Gem Resurfaces After Eight Decades By CoinWeek Staff When numismatists speak of rediscoveries that reshape the landscape of early American gold, few stories match...

Coin Expert Advice – Ten Tips For Selling Your Coins

Selling Your Coins by Doug Winter - RareGoldCoins.com ....... As someone who sells a lot of coins, I have some selling tips/tricks/thoughts that I’d like...

New Releases- US Mint to release Native American $1 Coin 2026 Rolls and Bags Jan 27th.

2026 Native American $1 Coin Honors Oneida Allies at Valley Forge The Native American $1 Coin Program honors and recognizes the important contributions made by...

Trade Dollar, 1873-1885 | CoinWeek

By CoinWeek Notes ..... A Coin Born of Global Trade Competition The United States Trade Dollar stands as one of the most distinctive silver issues of the...

2026 FUN Show Report by Jeff Garrett

The 2026 Florida United Numismatists (FUN) Convention in Orlando was wildly successful, with numerous dealers breaking sales records and overall attendance reaching an all-time...

A Singular Survivor: The Finest Known 1907 $1,000 Gold Certificate

Few American currency notes command instant respect. Even fewer define the absolute pinnacle of their type. However, the 1907 $1,000 Gold Certificate, Friedberg 1219e,...

The Curiosity of the 2005-D Speared Bison Nickel

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for PCGS ...... The 2005-D Speared Bison Nickel: A Modern Mint Variety Icon Among modern U.S. coin varieties, few pieces spark as much...

1851-C Liberty Head Quarter Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By CoinWeek Notes ..... The Charlotte Mint struck three coin denominations in 1851: the Gold Dollar, the Liberty Head Quarter Eagle, and the Liberty Head Half...