COINage Magazine

COINage has received several letters lately regarding coin values. How is value determined? Who determines it? Inquiring readers want to know. So I did a little bit of research and found an article that directly...

The magazine is called COINage, which seems to say that we don't follow currency at all. We do. But somehow, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, an unofficial privately-sponsored contest inviting artists to contribute their ideas for...

THE WEIGHT-ING GAME by Ed Reiter It’s official: The Realm of Coins has a new heavyweight champion—with a seven-figure price tag to back its claim to the title. A 2007 Canadian Maple Leaf containing 220.5 pounds of...

The fifth coin in Japan’s Prefecture Series features the Japanese crested ibis flying over Sado Island in the Prefecture of Niigata. The revered bird was hunted nearly to extinction, and a polluted post-World War...

Where have all the flowers gone? Better yet, where have all the 2009 Lincoln cents gone? Halfway through the year, the U.S. Mint had produced nearly 1.375 billion of the special cents marking the 200th...

Zachary Taylor has the distinction of being one of a handful of U.S. presidents who never won an elective office before capturing the nation’s highest office. Taylor also was the second chief executive to die...

Heading for Parks Unknown 14 Some little-recognized national parks and historical sites will finally get their due on a new Washington quarter series by Dom Yanchunas The Northern Mariana Islands Quarter 22 They have been a crucial link in the United...

Effigy Mounds National Monument … Kisatchie National Forest … Weir Farm National Historic Site … Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge … Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. These are among the natural and man-made...

It’s nice to have the National Numismatic Collection—or at least an important part of it—on display again at the Smithsonian Institution. Four years have passed since the Smithsonian closed the long-running “History of Coins and...

COINage, like the Lincoln cent, is marking a major milestone this year. This is a special birthday for us: the 45th anniversary of this magazine’s first appearance on the nation’s newsstands. For those keeping “score,”...