COINage Magazine

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 nearly 1.375 billion of the special cents marking the 200th...

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 highest office. Taylor also was the second chief executive to die...

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 Islands Quarter 22 They have been a crucial link in the United...

Effigy Mounds National Monument … Kisatchie National Forest … Weir Farm National Historic Site … Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge … Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. These are among the natural and man-made...

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 since the Smithsonian closed the long-running “History of Coins and...

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 first appearance on the nation’s newsstands. For those keeping “score,”...

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 coins in today's marketplace. “We conducted an informal inquiry of PNG...

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 not as rare as a day in June—and, for that...

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 Mint … some history through our “Coin Capsule” feature …...

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 to Larry, the magazine’s archives include photos of the John...