COINage Magazine

After taking some losses over the past few days, gold prices opened Monday morning shooting up from $1,940 to nearly $1,960 before settling lower in the $1,950s. A mixed bag of economic news has...

Few coins are as famous as the 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent. Many people outside of the hobby know it as "the 1909 penny." Lincoln cent enthusiasts often refer to it as "The Holy Grail."...

With the Labor Day holiday now behind us, the United States unofficially enters the fall season -- retail now looks ahead to the Christmastime holiday shopping season, while many collectors begin retreating indoors as...

Below is a snapshot of some of the topics and interests you can expect to see in the pages of the Oct./Nov. 2020 issue of COINage. Plus, we've included some sample pages for you...

By Antoinette Rahn In her poem “Children Learn What They Live,” author Dorothy Law Nolte provides various examples of the action and reaction of life experiences upon children. If there were a version of this poem...

Gold prices are closing out the week on a soft note, falling below $1,930 an ounce as of Friday morning amid a strengthening dollar. It's been a week during which the precious yellow metal,...

Jefferson nickels often get a bad wrap... They're too frequently dubbed a sleeper series because the common numismatic perception is that they offer little to excite collectors and thus see relatively sparse market activity...

By Scott A. Travers Hurricane Florence in 2018; Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017; Superstorm Sandy in 2012; Hurricane Katrina in 2005; and the Napa Valley fires of 2017 have focused Americans’ attention over and...

Gold prices eased back a bit Monday morning as the dollar showed indications of some strengthening down the line. Gold was down as low as $1,955 an ounce in early morning trading before offering...

The 1916-D Mercury dime is one of the rarest 20th-century regular-issue business-strike coins. With a mintage of only 264,000 pieces, the 1916-D dime had a lower mintage than any of the regular-issue Lincoln cents...