The Future of Numismatics Is … with Ralph Ross, Ph.D.
Editor’s Note: Mr. Ralph Ross, Ph.D., is running for the position of president in the American Numismatic Association’s current election. Members of the ANA...
Bitcoin Risks and Dangers
The price for a single Bitcoin peaked at $19,783.21 on December 17, 2017. On August 9, 2018, the quoted price is $6,475, down 67% in less than eight months.
Ancient Coin Collecting 101
Ancient numismatics covers a wide range of coins representing several civilizations that existed during antiquity. Generally speaking, it refers to currency minted from about...
Getting Started with Hard Times Tokens
By David Schwager
If all the coins in circulation went away, would you make your own? More than once in American history, people took minting...
Partners: COINage, January, 2019
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UK Scraps October 31 Brexit Coins
A special British 50 pence coin struck to honor Great Britain’s exit from the European Union, originally planned for October 31, is being “recycled”...
COINage Issue Highlights: April – May 2021
Below is a snapshot of some of the topics and interests you can expect to see in the pages of the April-May 2021 issue...
My Two Cents’ Worth: Got Change for a Trillion?
Canada's Loon dollar coin is affectionately known North of the Border as the "Loonie." For a short time early this year, it seemed possible--though...
Earliest U.S. Circulating Currency
BY DONALD H. KAGIN, PH.D.
It is now clear that the first circulating currency issued by the United States was not the Demand Notes of...
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Coin Mintages: Reading Between the Numbers
Coin mintages are an official report on how many strikes of a specific issue were produced. They are one of the key statistics about...
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US Mint Raising Prices on Silver Coins
Climbing bullion values and increased operating costs are pushing up the issue prices for 15 United States Mint products containing .999-fine silver compositions. The...
Market Report: Discontinue the Cent
President Trump wants each U.S. department to cut five percent in costs. Everyone has an idea for cutting small amounts, but we have to think bigger to make a dent in a public debt that is $21 trillion and growing by about $1 trillion each year. When it comes to the U.S. Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), I have made the most cost-effective suggestion many times over the last five years: Kill the penny!
A Quick Review of Die Making – Then and Now
By Antoinette Rahn
It never ceases to amaze me how much technology changes processes over a matter of decades, yet some elements of the process...
