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The fundamentals for gold continue strong as it reaches new highs worldwide and near an eight-year high in the United States, and that is helping to boost increased demand for some rare gold coins, according to award-winning writer Michael Fuljenz, p

The Heritage Central States Numismatic Society April 22-27 auctions were moved to their Dallas, Texas, headquarters and worldwide on HA.com. Despite the change in venue, collectors were able to bring sales totaling millions of dollars to fruition. Tw

There is no way of getting around the fact that recent years have not been the best when it comes to higher prices for most Roosevelt dimes. It is hard to put a good spin on the situation, as prices are a reflection of the market and the prices of mo

WHEN IT COMES to silver dollars that collectors simply love and go crazy for, it’s fair to say that the Morgan and Peace dollars are both right at the top of that list. There are also folks who are big fans of some of the silver dollars within the gr

Do you still look at your pocket change? Perhaps a better question would be: Do you still have any pocket change? I confess that I don’t, because I rarely spend cash anymore. I still carry cash but virtually all of my spending occurs with plastic mon

A better date when it comes to a Philadelphia Washington quarter can be a relative matter. The 1938 Washington quarter is certainly better than the 1964 but with a total mintage of 564,341,347, it is probably easy to make the case that almost any qua

The U.S. Mint began releasing in April a limited mintage of 2020-W quarters directly into circulation. The quarters feature a “V75” privy mark to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. It is unusual for a U.S. coin to have a pri

HERITAGE AUCTIONS CONTINUED offering selections from the large El Don Diego Luna Collection of Cuban coins, tokens, medals, bank notes and ephemera in Auction 61155 which closed March 29. I had first mentioned this cornucopia of Cuba material in the

Franklin half dollars seem to have found an audience based on record prices and dealers running prices for coins they want to buy. An impressive list once came from the Littleton Coin Company in Littleton, N.H. In their buy list, Littleton offered to

What is a Nevada “Pooping Horse” quarter? The best known state quarter varieties are the Wisconsin “Extra Leaf ” coins of 2004. These two varieties were caused by some change or alteration to reverse dies. The lesser known 2006-P Nevada “Pooping Hor

Perhaps the most popular series of coins among modern collectors is the Morgan dollar, coined from 1878 to 1921. Good reference books have been published about these coins, but we still have not learned all there is to know. New varieties are discove

The first million-dollar coin of the year came quickly in 2020, and it isn’t even an issue of the United States! A British 1936 gold sovereign of King Edward VIII, one of six known, was brokered by the British Royal Mint for the equivalent of $1.3 mi

Again, America loses an opportunity to make a great design. The new eagle is great on the reverse, but arrows should be in the eagle’s claws, not olive branches. It continues to make America look weak just like the obverse with Walking Liberty. The g

I too was mad at the Mint for the way they handled the November American silver eagle fiasco. It’s amazing that 30,000 were sold in 10 minutes. I tried to get through at noon as usual, but there was a busy signal. It’s too bad us collectors can’t hol

A woman who made a purchase at the January 2020 Florida United Numismatists (FUN) Show in Orlando got an unexpected bonus in her change: a $20 bill with a valuable error. She immediately submitted the note to Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®), which confi

China’s sudden move to curb trading and mining of cryptocurrency last September caught many people off-guard. Is there a chance of an equally unexpected comeback for digital currencies in China? When the crackdown came, Jeff Chen was working at a sm

Recently I was lucky to have some luck at the Coinstar machine at the Acme. One trip yielded a 1946 Mercury Dime and a second trip a 1919 Lincoln, both in good condition. Not bad for a simple stroll to the Coinstar machine. Name and address withheld

COLLECTORS IN t h e modern era tend to think of the Flying Eagle cent as merely an interesting design but there is more to this coin than meets the eye. Not only were the motifs on both sides well thought out, it also sparked the rise of coin collect

In 2019 we think of the dime as merely something with which to make change but this was not always true. Going back a hundred years or more the dime was an important coin with real buying power. Going back even further, the average unskilled worker i

WHEN I started collecting coins in the mid 1950s, coins to fill contemporary sets could be acquired through change and roll searching, with an occasional purchase of a key date. At that time, dimes, quarters, and half dollars, which actually circulat

One morning in April 2018 I went to a nearby store and checked the Coinstar machine to see what I could find. A couple of coins on the floor near the machine got my attention. When I looked into the reject slot, my curiosity turned into shock when I

DENOMINATIONS OF United States coins that are no longer seen in the marketplace are perhaps among the most interesting to collectors. One of the more alluring of these bygone pieces (especially to those who specialize in early copper coins) is the lo

THERE’S NO doubt about it, folks love a bargain. It need not be coins. We all like doing some after-Christmas shopping, just to see what might be out there at half price, simply because it is one day after the holiday. But that love for a good buy is

By happenstance metal detector hobbyists can become coin collectors, but it is usually due to a chance discovery. Many metal detector enthusiasts attend organized treasure hunting events at which they pay a fee to sweep an area possibly salted with o

For more than 200 years, from 1714 to 1917, the House of Hanover furnished the kings and queens that ruled the United Kingdom. It all began in 1688 when James II was driven from the English throne and replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband Wil

From historic stone discs to wheels of cheese, here’s a look at a few interesting examples of currencies from around the world—and beyond! Yap is a small island in Micronesia with some pretty large currency. Hundreds of years ago, Yapese sailors be

We all rely on money to pay for the things we need and want. But what is money, and how did it evolve? A basic definition is “the official currency, coins, and paper notes issued by a government.” People know the value of the money they use—it appear

A hack in South Korea added to uncertainties in the virtual currency market, which saw a loss of well over $40 billion in cryptocurrencies' overall value.