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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... While the United States Mint had produced gold coins since 1795, few gold coins of...

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Philadelphia Mint deployed one set of dies to produce the entire business strike mintage of 27,000 1846 Liberty Seated Half...

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... In 1925, the United States Mint struck a total combined mintage of 188,909,000 Lincoln Cents across all three facilities. Of this,...

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Philadelphia Mint had been solely responsible for producing minor coins since the first half cents and large cents rolled off the...

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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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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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