PCGS Coin of the Month: 1877 Morgan Half Dollar in Silver
The 1877 Morgan Half Dollar in Silver, PCGS PR66CAM is the Professional Grading Service's (PCGS) Coin of the Month.
While United States pattern coinage has long...
Auction Action: Bidding Doesn’t Need to be Bewildering
By Donn Pearlman
Do you bid in auctions for coins or bank notes? Multi-million dollar “trophy” coins and notes make big headlines, but there also...
Gold Tops $1,500, Breaking 6-Year Price Record
By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, COINage News Editor
Gold is on fire this week, hitting the $1,500 threshold on August 7 and hovering at that mark over...
My Two Cents’ Worth: The Other Big Change of 1965
For coin collectors, 1964 was a year of momentous events.
The Kennedy half dollar made a dramatic debut. Proof set production surged to nearly 4...
British Rarities Are Shining Stars
Auction features Peh Collection highlights
The premier event in the Americas for world-coin experts and enthusiasts is the annual New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC),...
Barron’s Rediscovers Gold
By Mike Fuljenz
The September 24, 2018, edition of Barron’s features a cover article, “Rediscovering Gold,” which features a line drawing of a lone Western...
Market Report: Certifiably Counterfeit
By Mike Fuljenz
In the past year, I have reviewed several customers’ coin collections and sadly detected one or more counterfeit coins. In one instance,...
Gold Prices Recovering After Heavy Losses
Gold prices took a major hit this past week after falling by more than $50 in a single day on the news this past...
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My Two Cents’ Worth: Lousing Up the First Spouse Series
LOUSING UP THE FIRST SPOUSE SERIES
by Ed Reiter
Chester Alan Arthur was one of this country’s most fascinating presidents. After a middling career as an...
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Champion Tennis Player Roger Federer First Living Person On Swissmint Commemorative...
Fans of tennis know Roger Federer as one of the sport's greatest players of all time. And now numismatists will know the 38-year-old Swiss...
Gold Prices Rally On Iran War News: Will Gold Hit $1,600...
As predicted here on the COINage blog late last week, the news of the United States airstrikes that killed Iranian military major general Qasem...
New York Bank Hoard Unsealed
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® has certified the New York Bank Hoard, a group of 16,000 Morgan dollars that had been stored in sealed U.S. Treasury...
