COINage Magazine

Following are the answers to May's Coinage Kids Quiz, "Mom's the Word." 1. For how many years did Queen Victoria reign? 63 (63 years, 7 months) 2....

COINage has received several recent press releases regarding the national parks quarters, the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program, as it's officially called. The fact that...

Why don’t more kids collect coins? I’m asked that question at least twice a day. And at least twice a day, I’m able to give...

A CLASH OF SYMBOLS by Ed Reiter Symbolism. To critics of the U.S. Mint’s uninspired coin designs, it’s an element sorely missing from the nation’s new coinage...

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...

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...

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 fifth coin in Japan’s Prefecture Series features the Japanese crested ibis flying over Sado Island in the Prefecture of Niigata. The revered bird...

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...

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...

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...

Effigy Mounds National Monument … Kisatchie National Forest … Weir Farm National Historic Site … Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge … Frank Church River...

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...

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...

COUNTERFEIT COINS Fake Vintage and Modern Coins Flood the Marketplace The Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGDealers.org) recently warned buyers and sellers of the proliferation of counterfeit...

And what is so rare as a day in June? Well, by a process of elimination, I can think of a few things that are...

Tell Us Your Story Each month, COINage magazine strives to provide you with a balanced reading experience. A little bit of recent news from the...

I recently learned that numismatic photographer Frank Larry Stevens passed away in February. Larry’s pictures have been at the core of COINage since 1965. Thanks...