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1877 Trade Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

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...
Counterfeit 1875-CC Trade Dollar. Not certified by PCGS. Image: Jack Riley.

Two Deceptive 1875-CC Trade Dollars: Fun With Fakes

By Jack Riley .....   The following article discusses two 1875-CC Trade Dollars recently discovered on eBay. Submitted to third-party grading services for certification, one returned...
1873 Trade Dollar. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1873 Trade Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Throughout history, certain coins, often silver ones like the Trade Dollar, have circulated around large geographical regions far from their place...
1849-C Gold Dollar, Open Wreath. Image: Heritage Auctions/CoinWeek.

Five Rare Coin Auction Results You Should Know

By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek .....   Heritage Auctions concluded a highly successful U.S. coin auction at the 2025 Winter Florida United Numismatists (FUN) Show to...
Heritage Auctions January 2025 Auction Highlights.

$65.4 Million U.S. Coins Sales in Heritage FUN Numismatic Auction

Five more seven-figure coins added to the record books, including a 1927-D Saint-Gaudens $20 at $3.84 million and a 1798 Small Eagle $5 at...
Image: Jack Riley.

A Counterfeit Family of 1873-S Trade Dollars: Fun With Fakes

By Jack Riley .....   An interesting eBay listing is the inspiration for this article. The listing showed a counterfeit 1873-S Trade Dollar with a coppery...
The Dunham 1884 Trade Dollar Proof. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

1884 Trade Dollar Proof : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Trade Dollar was introduced in 1873 to serve as an export silver trade coin at a time when Congress was...
Counterfeit coins that can be identified by simply referring to the Red Book. Image: eBay / Whitman / CoinWeek.

Red Book Counterfeits – Jack Young’s Fun With Fakes

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC), and the Dark Side Group ......   “Red Book Counterfeit (RBC)” is a term I use to describe...
Jack Young - Counterfeit 1874-S Trade Dollar. Fun with Fakes.

Two New Counterfeit Dollar “Varieties” – Jack Young’s Fun With Fakes

By Jack D. Young, Early American Coppers (EAC), and the Dark Side Group ......   I had the opportunity to participate in The Coin Show’s Live...
1876-S Trade Dollar. Image: David Lawrence Rare Coins.

Gem 1876-S Trade Dollar Among Highlights at David Lawrence

The more than 475 lots in the Sunday, December 10 Online Auction from David Lawrence Rare Coins (DLRC) is open for bidding - including...
Trade Dollar. Image: PCGS / CoinWeek.

PCGS Now Attributing Trade Dollar Challenge 50 Set Varieties

By Jay Turner for PCGS ...... Silver dollar variety collecting has been a passion for many collectors for decades. PCGS now announces an additional variety...
How Thick is the U.S. Trade Dollar?

How Thick Was a Trade Dollar?

By Roger W. Burdette, special to CoinWeek .....   Today, the thickness of a coin is seldom a topic of discussion among coin collectors. It mostly...

Counterfeit Coin Detection – 1878-S and -CC Trade Dollars

By Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) ......   The United States Mint had high hopes when it introduced the Trade dollar in 1873. Silver miners believed that...
Chopmarked US Trade Dollars in the Current Coin Market

Chopmarked U.S. Trade Dollars in the Current Coin Market

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   By the late 1800s, New World silver had been flowing into China for hundreds of years. When Spain conquered...
Trade Dollars Featured in May 2022 Stack's Bowers Hong Kong Auction

Trade Dollars Featured in May 2022 Stack’s Bowers Hong Kong Auction

By Nicholas Fritz - Numismatist, World and Ancient Coins, Stack's Bowers Galleries ...... Western interest and trade within China is relatively recent, only beginning in...

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