COINage Magazine

Coin mintages are an official report on how many strikes of a specific issue were produced. They are one of the key statistics about any coin and are readily available for most United States...

Steve Ivy, co-chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Heritage Auctions, was instrumental in building Heritage’s empire with current annual sales approaching $2 billion and locations in 11 cities worldwide. During the 1970s and early 1980s,...

James L. Halperin is the co-founder and co-chairman of Heritage Auctions (HA.com). Heritage, which he co-founded in 1982, is now an in-demand online auction house destination with reported total sales exceeding $1.45 billion in 2022. Halperin...

The 1907 Extremely High Relief Inverted Edge Letters Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle PCGS PR 69 is the Professional Grading Service’s (PCGS) Coin of the Month. The debates will continue for time immemorial as to which coin should...

CAC-approved coins fared well in many public sales during January 2024 and in a live auction in Dallas County, Texas. Here are ten examples, which were selected from a large number of results that...

Small coins with high grades and low populations are big-ticket items these days. As recently as the late 1990s, a coin selling for $1 million was considered a big deal. Today, $1 million for...

It was 25 years ago, on January 4, 1999, that the 50 State Quarters program kicked off a national fanfare and forever changed the way Americans looked at their coins. An ambitious program fielding 50...

Right now, if we listen to the polls and pundits, the 2024 U.S. presidential election looks like it will be a rematch of the two candidates from 2020: Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. It can be...

The 1870-S $3, PCGS SP50 is the Professional Grading Service’s (PCGS) Coin of the Month. There are few coins as enigmatic and storied as the 1870-S $3, a special-strike coin that has gone down in history...

The Sacagawea dollar has a namesake that is as enigmatic as the coin itself. First issued in 2000, the Sacagawea dollar is an expedition into coin collecting that, like the westward journey of Captains...