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1976-S Bicentennial Quarter Clad Proof : A Collector’s Guide

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1909 Indian Head Cent, reportedly the first one struck that year. Image: Stack's Bowers.

1909 Indian Head Cent : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The year 1909 marked the 50th and final year of James Barton Longacre's Indian Head...
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1992 American Silver Eagle : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   After a surge of American Silver Eagle sales in 1991, demand softened considerably in 1992. Still, the 1992 American Silver Eagle...
1776-1976 Bicentennial Quarter with Jack Ahr’s Drummer Boy (actually a man) reverse. Image: Adobe Stock.

1976-S Bicentennial Quarter Clad Proof : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ..... The 1976-S Bicentennial Quarter Clad Proof is one of five 1976 Bicentennial Quarters the United States Mint struck in 1975 and...
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Three Cent Silver, Type 1 (1851-1853) : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   Called a trime in some Treasury Department records, the Three Cent Silver coin was the smallest ever issued by the United...
1874 Liberty Seated Dime. Image: Stack's Bowers / CoinWeek.

Liberty Seated Dime, Legend and Arrows (1873-1874) : A Collector’s Guide

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   The Mint Act of February 12, 1873, mandated a slight increase in the weight of the dime to 2.50 grams. Interestingly,...

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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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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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By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   Janina Żółtowska The first woman on this list, depicted on the Polish 2, 5, and 10 Zlote coins between 1932...

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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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Kernel – Inner Disc of a Bimetallic Coin

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By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes .....   (n.) In numismatic terms, the kernel is the central or inner disc of a bimetallic coin....

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Flying Eagle Cent, 1856-1858 | CoinWeek

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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...
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Aureate – Golden Toning on Coins

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(adj.) Aureate is a term denoting a golden hue. It is occasionally used in auction catalogs to describe the color of a toned coin. * *...
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1879-CC Morgan Dollar : A Collector’s Guide

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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...
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Big Things Happened at the United States Mint in March

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

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(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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Henry Lee Hook Bronze Medal : A Collector’s Guide

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Rare Bronze striking of Major Henry Lee's Congressional Gold Medal Fewer than 76 examples struck Examples sell for thousands of dollars * * * Betts-575....
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Henry Kreis – Coin and Medal Designer

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Sculptor, Coin Designer. Born 1899 in Essen, Germany. Died 1962. * * * The German-born American sculptor Henry Kreis is notable in numismatics as being the...
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PQ – What Does it Mean to Coin and Paper Money Collectors?

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PQ is an acronym for “Premium Quality”, meaning a coin that is strong for the grade (in other words, a coin with premium eye...
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1937 Washington Quarter Proof : A Collector’s Guide

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Intended to be a circulating commemorative coin honoring the bicentennial of the birth of America’s first president, the Washington quarter as originally designed was...
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First 2026 Semiquincentennial Coin Design Candidates for Lincoln Cent, Jefferson Nickel

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By CoinWeek ....   At the February 15, 2024 meeting of the United States Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), Semiquincentennial coin design candidates for the 2026...
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