COINage Magazine

Every year at this time, I think about a 2003 publicity stunt that was only supposed to promote awareness of a coin show but surprisingly solved a 41-year-old numismatic mystery: the whereabouts of the...

By Mike Fuljenz Gold closed the first quarter of 2018 up 2.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrials fell 2.5%, giving gold a 4.8% advantage over the Dow index and a 3.4% advantage over the S&P...

Preview of the June 2018 issue of COINage magazine.

By Donald H. Kagin, Ph.D. Over my 60 years of collecting, cataloging and dealing in numismatics, I have been blessed with handling so many great coins that it’s hard to narrow my favorites down to just 10 of them,...

Editor’s Note: Long-time collector and former award-winning Chicago broadcaster Donn Pearlman joins COINage as a monthly columnist. He is a recipient of the American Numismatic Association’s Farran Zerbe Award and the Numismatic Literary Guild’s...

Bitcoin Is Nearing a Bubble Top, While Gold Is Growing Steadily by Mike Fuljenz, Universal Coin and BullionIn late October 2017, the Chicago Mercantile Group (CME), the world’s biggest exchange group, said that it plans...

Ed Reiter, former New York Times numismatics columnist, dies at 79 (Wilkes-Barre, PA) Aug. 24, 2017—Ed Reiter of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, a one-man institution in coin writing for over half a century, died at the age...

International Money Managers Go for the Gold by Mike Fuljenz, Universal Coin and Bullion    Wall Street bankers generally chase after gold as its price rises, but run from the yellow metal when the gold price...

Submit Show Date information to editor@coinagemag.com at least three months in advance of the event. MARCH 2018 2-4—EAST RIDGE, TENNESSEE: Tennessee State Numismatic Society (TSNS) Show; Camp Jordan Arena, 323 Camp Jordan Pkwy.; Fri. 10 am-6 pm,...

TREASURE TROVE: Roman Coins Unearthed in Spain Workers laying pipe in a southern Spanish park discovered a 1,300-pound (600-kilogram) hoard of Roman coins. The construction workers came across 19 amphoras containing thousands of bronze and...