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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...
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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...
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Gold & Silver Prices

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,...
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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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As predicted here on the COINage blog late last week, the news of the United States airstrikes that killed Iranian military major general Qasem...

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