COINage Magazine

By Eric Bradley, Michael Weems, and Brian Shipman When Steve Ivy looks back at 50 years of selling $10 billion worth of high-end art and collectibles, he doesn’t see dollar signs. He sees faces–the faces of his partners and the faces of...

By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez There are stunning similarities between computer-software-for-the-world developer Bill Gates and computer-software-for-the-numismatic-world developer John Feigenbaum. Gates pioneered computer technology in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the launch of the first commercially...

The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to promote a special donation program called “Submissions for a Cure.” For a limited time, PCGS is offering a...

Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has expanded its online Counterfeit Detection resource to include detailed descriptions of world coins most commonly targeted by counterfeiters. The Russia 1897AT 15 Roubles is first on the list. Even with...

Every year at this time, I think about a 2003 publicity stunt that was only supposed to promote awareness of a coin show but surprisingly solved a 41-year-old numismatic mystery: the whereabouts of the...

By Mike Fuljenz Gold closed the first quarter of 2018 up 2.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrials fell 2.5%, giving gold a 4.8% advantage over the Dow index and a 3.4% advantage over the S&P...

Preview of the June 2018 issue of COINage magazine.

By Donald H. Kagin, Ph.D. Over my 60 years of collecting, cataloging and dealing in numismatics, I have been blessed with handling so many great coins that it’s hard to narrow my favorites down to just 10 of them,...

Editor’s Note: Long-time collector and former award-winning Chicago broadcaster Donn Pearlman joins COINage as a monthly columnist. He is a recipient of the American Numismatic Association’s Farran Zerbe Award and the Numismatic Literary Guild’s...

Bitcoin Is Nearing a Bubble Top, While Gold Is Growing Steadily by Mike Fuljenz, Universal Coin and BullionIn late October 2017, the Chicago Mercantile Group (CME), the world’s biggest exchange group, said that it plans...