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2024 Kennedy Half Dollar Rolls, Bags Available From U.S. Mint April 23

By CoinWeek .... Rolls and bags of the 2024 Kennedy half dollar will be directly available to collectors for purchase from the United States Mint...
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2015 Blue Ridge Parkway National Park Quarter : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The America the Beautiful Quarters Program debuted just after the 50 State Quarters Program and its adjunct District of Columbia and Territories...
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1924 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful and artistic numismatic designs ever realized in the United States, the Saint-Gaudens $20 gold double eagle is...
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1944 Lincoln Cent : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The 1944 Lincoln cent followed the experimental and largely derided 1943 Lincoln steel cent. The...
1925 Saint-Gaudens double eagle.

1925 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   By 1925, gold coins had mostly fallen from circulation within the United States. Instead, the Government intended these coins to...

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First Read: 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, Third Edition

Review by Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   With nearly six decades of experience in the business, Chicago coin dealer Harlan J. Berk is a well...

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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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10 Unusual World and U.S. Coins and Patterns

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   People have been striking coins for almost 3,000 years, and the vast majority of coinage minted during that time...

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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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Chiton – Ancient Fashion Adorns Most Beautiful U.S. Coin

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   (n.) Pronounced "KAI-tun," usually replacing the "t" with a glottal stop. As seen on various U.S. and...

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Picayune – Old-Fashioned Slang for the Half Dime

(n.) Pronounced “pick-ah-YOON”. Picayune is a regional word for the half dime that was more commonly used in the 19th century. The word comes from...

1915 Indian Head Quarter Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

The 1915 Indian Head quarter eagle is the 10th issue in the series. It is also the final issue of the quarter eagle denomination...

1915 Indian Head Quarter Eagle Proof : A Collector’s Guide

100 Minted. Let that sink in. The 1915 Indian Head quarter eagle Proof was the last of eight Proof issues for Bela Lyon-Pratt's Indian Head...

1922 Peace Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

1922 Low Relief Peace Dollar The year 1922 marked the first full-calendar production year for artist Anthony de Francisci's Peace dollar design. Premature die breakage...

1893-S Barber Quarter Only One Finer Offered by David Lawrence

The Sunday, March 3, 2024 Auction from David Lawrence Rare Coins (DLRC) is live online and features over 525 lots; this includes more than...

Flying Eagle Cent, 1856-1858 | CoinWeek

The Large Cent Gives Way to the Small Cent By the early 1850s, copper was limited, and the price of the raw metal rose to...

Aureate – Golden Toning on Coins

(adj.) Aureate is a term denoting a golden hue. It is occasionally used in auction catalogs to describe the color of a toned coin. * *...

1879-CC Morgan Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

While silver bullion was pouring out of the nearby Comstock mines, United States Mint leadership in Washington, D.C. was facing a cost problem with...

Big Things Happened at the United States Mint in March

By CoinWeek ..... One might think that as March takes its turn in the calendar's monthly procession that the business of the United States Mint might...

Hippocampus – Strange Mythical Creature on a U.S. Coin

(n.) Also Hippocampos or Hippocamp. The hippocampus is a mythical creature of ancient Eurasian cultures depicted as being part horse and part fish or dolphin,...

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