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The two most recognizable silver dollars in American history are being reissued side by side, and this time they share a birthday.…
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A discovery coin has just joined the shortest list in modern American error collecting. Professional Coin Grading Service has authenticated and certified…
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The Royal Mint has released the 2026 editions of its Britannia and Liberty bullion coins, bringing the first-ever design collaboration between the…
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Australia’s newest circulating $2 coins will be arriving the old-fashioned way: in your change. The Royal Australian Mint and Woolworths have announced…
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Mincovňa Kremnica has released the newest entry in its long running “Fauna and flora in Slovakia” gold investment series, a one ounce…
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The biggest circulation coin hunt since the 2019 W quarter craze now has a price on its head. Professional Coin Grading Service…
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There is a quarter worth $2,500 somewhere in America’s loose change, and nobody knows whose pocket it will land in. Numismatic Guaranty…
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The annual uncirculated set is usually the most predictable product on the U.S. Mint’s calendar: the same denominations, the same satin finish,…
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We now continue our examination of Lincoln cent varieties. Moving right along to the varieties that you can discover for 1984. 1984-D…
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The Royal Mint has, for the first time in its history, put motorsport on an official UK coin. Launched at 9am on…
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Forty years ago, a disused Beaux Arts railway station on the left bank of the Seine reopened as one of the most…
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In 1783, a French engraver named Augustin Dupré finished a medal that Benjamin Franklin had dreamed up entirely on his own, no…
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The Monnaie de Paris has opened its tribute to the 250th anniversary of American independence, and it has done so by going…
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There is a quiet irony in this release that the marketing copy never quite says out loud. To mark 250 years since…
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The U.S. Mint has found a way to make a coin nobody can buy. On June 23, the Mint announced it will…
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A hundred years after a baby named Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles, the woman she became is back on…
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The Royal Mint has released 500 Years of the Crown, a UK £5 range marking half a millennium since the crown was…
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The United States Mint has opened subscriptions for the Comic Art Three Medal Set, 2025 Super Heroes, a single package that brings…
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For the first time in recent U.S. history, the United States Mint is striking a coin that isn’t round. On July 16,…
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The Royal Canadian Mint has released the seventh coin in its annual series celebrating the diversity of Canadian society, and this year…
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The third of this year’s five Semiquincentennial quarters reaches collectors in quantity this week. The United States Mint will begin accepting orders…
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