5 Things To Do With Your Coin Collection Before 2020
With October's arrival, the 2019 calendar is entering its last pages. Many hobbyists see the last months of the year as a good time to take stock of their coin collections. Maybe it's time...
COINage Confidential: Maurice Rosen
Maurice Rosen is best known as the editor and publisher of the widely acclaimed Rosen Numismatic Advisory (RNA) which provides in-depth analysis and market commentary. The RNA has won more “Best Newsletter of the...
Challenger Astronaut Christa McAuliffe Honored On 2021 Silver Dollar
Astronaut Christa McAuliffe, who launched aboard NASA's Challenger in 1986 before being killed moments into flight when the space shuttle exploded, will be honored on a 2021 United States commemorative silver dollar. The coin...
How You Can Combat Counterfeiting
By R.W. Julian
The hobby of numismatics is at a crossroads. The increasing number of counterfeits in the marketplace calls for strong responses, the first of which is the system of third-party grading services. The...
Bullion Prices Jump On Trump Impeachment Buzz, China Trade Mess
As the last full week of September 2019 moves forward, several types of news headlines are influencing the direction of bullion prices. Perhaps the most notable event of the past 24 hours is the...
2019 Delaware Dollar Honors A Real Astronomy Star
The new 2019 Delaware American Innovation $1 coin, honoring Annie Jump Cannon, marks the first of 56 new dollar coins commemorating the nation's pivotal innovators and innovations. Cannon, born in 1863, was a pioneering...
The 1975 No-S Roosevelt Dime Notches Another Record — And It’s Huge!
Just a few days after the finer of two known 1975 No-S Roosevelt dime crossed the auction block at the Long Beach Expo for an outstanding $456,000, the little modern rarity that could managed...
COINage Confidential: David Thomason Alexander
By David Thomason Alexander
December 2019 will mark my 70th year as a coin and medal collector. It occurs to me that my life in numismatics has spanned a world of change with which I...
Earliest U.S. Circulating Currency
BY DONALD H. KAGIN, PH.D.
It is now clear that the first circulating currency issued by the United States was not the Demand Notes of 1861 as was commonly believed for decades, but the Treasury...
2019 Quarter 10-Coin Sets To Be Released October 9
The United States Mint will be releasing the 2019 America The Beautiful Quarters in a handsome 10-coin set in October. The set, an annual offering from the United States Mint, includes five business-strike quarters...
