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Today's Coin Market is Red Hot(Post)
Today's Coin Market is Red HotTwo years ago, as cases of the covid-19 virus began surfacing and then spreading rapidly, the coin industry and other players in numismatics had to quickly figure out ho ...
Collecting American Quarters(Post)Collecting American Quarters The U.S. Mint was founded in 1792 and began striking coins that year. The first quarter dollars were not issued until 1796 because the Spanish-American coins denomina ...
The Numismatic Legacy of Augustus Saint-Gaudens(Post)The Numismatic Legacy of Augustus Saint-GaudensAugustus St. Gaudens was an American master sculptor who embodied the American renaissance -- a period from the late 19th to early 20th century m ...
A Brief History of the Mercury Dime(Post)The Mercury dime is a 90% silver, 10% copper ten-cent coin struck from 1916 to 1945 that was designed by famed German-American sculptor Adolph Weinman, who also designed the Walking Liberty half doll ...
​What Coin Should Every Collector Have?(Post)Rare Coins to CollectThis is not an easy question to answer since the possible choices are unlimited. Should it be an American coin or one from another country? Should it be something old or a m ...
Trade Dollars: A Great Success Abroad but Not at Home(Post)Trade Dollars HistoryIn the 1850s as a result of the discovery of large gold deposits in Western states and Australia, the price of gold declined due to the ample supply of the yellow metal availab ...
1905 V Nickel Value(Page)1905 V Nickel The 1905 V Nickel has a higher mintage than the previous year by several million. The Philadelphia Mint struck over 29 million coins making it relatively common across all grades up to ...
1958 Nickel Value(Page)1958 Nickel The 1958 Nickel, part of the Jefferson Nickel series, features Thomas Jefferson on the obverse and his Monticello home on the reverse. Made from a copper-nickel alloy, it does not contai ...
1901 V Nickel Value(Page)1901 V Nickel The 1901 V Nickel had a total mintage of over 26 million coins struck at the Philadelphia Mint. This coin was keeping up with the large mintages of the previous two years, and is also ...
1898 V Nickel Value(Page)1898 V Nickel The 1898 V Nickel had a total mintage of over 12.5 million coins struck. This was significantly less than the previous year, but still a fairly plentiful coin. The 1898 Liberty Head Ni ...
Trade Dollar History(Page)The purpose of the U.S. Trade dollars were to compete with the trade dollars that already existed in East Asia. The U.S. first tried to send the American Silver Dollar for trade in Asia, but it was ...
1916 Standing Liberty Quarter(Page)1916 Standing Liberty Quarter The 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter had a total mintage of 52,000 coins from the Philadelphia Mint. This was the first coin of the series, although it was struck within t ...