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Before the Buffalo Nickel Existed, James Earle Fraser Made These Remarkable 1912 Electrotrials

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

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

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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

Low Ball Coins: Why Collectors Pay Premium Prices for America’s Most Worn Coins

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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...

Coins of Medusa: The Maligned Maiden

The Only Ancient Coin Ever Struck with Egyptian Hieroglyphics

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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...

From 770 to Niue: New Rebbe Silver Coin Marks 75 Years of Chabad Leadership

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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

National Gold Banks of California: History, Rarity, and the Remarkable Gold Coin Vignette

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

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

Gold’s $4,000 Test Exposes a Split Bullion Market as Silver Demand Cracks

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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...

ANA’s ‘Flame of Freedom’ Silver Medal Brings a Powerful America 250 Message to Pittsburgh

The 1925 Norse-American Centennial Coin Rejected By Congress Only to Became a Classic Medal

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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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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...

Money Talks: ANA’s New Podcast Will Debut Live on the Pittsburgh Bourse

ANA Honors Three Numismatic Leaders Who Are Shaping the Future of Coin Collecting

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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

From Sisi to the Spanish Armada: Atlas Unveils 390 World Coin Rarities

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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...

Joel Iskowitz’s Final Coin Design Headlines Free 2026 ANA World’s Fair of Money Giveaway

Eleven Legendary 1933 Double Eagles Will Appear Together for the First Time

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The Sheldon Scale – How Coins Are Graded

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The Sheldon Scale (or Sheldon Grading Scale) is a 70-point numerical grading system for evaluating...
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Capped Bust Dime, Small Size (1828-1837) | CoinWeek

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... William Kneass became Chief Engraver of the United States Mint in 1823 after the death...
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Shimmering 1881-S Morgan Dollar Toner at GreatCollections

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On October 26, 2025, GreatCollections will sell a superb gem PCGS MS67+ CAC 1881-S Morgan Dollar. The 1881-S is widely regarded as the finest issue in the...
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Gold Dollar, Type 2 (Indian Head) 1854-1856 | CoinWeek

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... Type 1 | Type 2 | Type 3 * * * In 1854, the United States Mint...
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Superb Gem 1895 Morgan Dollar to Sell at GreatCollections

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On October 26, 2025, GreatCollections will sell a superb gem PCGS PR67+DCAM CAC 1895 Morgan Dollar Proof. The coin is one of 880 struck...
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2012-S Denali National Park America the Beautiful Quarter Clad Proof : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .... The 2012-S Denali National Park and Preserve Quarter Clad Proof is a collectible coin struck as part of the America...
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The Stellas Are in a League of Their Own | Jeff Garrett for NGC

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The Stella patterns of 1879 and 1880 are among the most sought-after coins in American numismatics. By Jeff Garrett for NGC - Original article...
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1856 “Upright 5” Gold Dollar Coin Key to Unraveling Mystery

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  An 1856 Gold Dollar's story, buried in historical archives for nearly 170 years, is revealed in “Buried History – How Counterfeiting Changed America,” a...
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ACEF Honors Two for Identifying, Creating Awareness of Counterfeit Coins.

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Collector Jack Young of Dayton, OH, and coin dealer Matt Dinger of Indianapolis, IN, were honored by the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation at a special...
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Mint Error News Magazine Issue #83 Now Available

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Issue 83 of Mint Error News Magazine is now available, featuring a 1980-D Lincoln Cent struck on a 90% Silver Dime planchet that is in...
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