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U.S. Mint Names 37 Artists Who Could Shape the Future of American Coinage

Meet the 37 Artists Who Could Design America’s Next Coins Every new U.S. coin starts long before metal meets a press. First comes an idea. Then an artist must turn that idea into a...

US Mint Selects 37 Artists for Coin and Medal Designs

The United States Mint on Aug. 31 named 37 artists to its Artistic Infusion Program (AIP), including four newcomers who will have opportunities to develop designs for future U.S. c...

The Artist Who Helped Shape Latvia’s Coins and the Historian Who Brings the Past to Life Earn ANA Awards

From Latvia’s Coins to Forgotten Archives: Two Remarkable Careers Earn ANA’s Awards Coins preserve history in ways that few other objects can. Their designs reflect national identi...

U.S. Mint Shows 2028 American Innovation Dollar Candidate Designs

Candidate designs have been published for the four 2028 American Innovation $1 coins, with proposed reverses highlighting innovations and innovators from Nebraska, Colorado, North...

U.S. Mint Reveals 1776-2026 Diamond Field Morgan & Peace Silver Dollars

The United States Mint has released images of its 2026-P Diamond Field Morgan and Peace Silver Dollar Set, providing the first look at a distinctive new treatment for the classic s...

2027 Working Dogs Coins Honor Therapy, Service and K-9 Roles

The United States Mint has unveiled the final designs for its 2027 Working Dogs Commemorative Coin Program, with six designs for $5 gold coins, silver dollars and clad half dollars...

The Coin Roosevelt Demanded Returns: 1907 Saint-Gaudens High Relief Closes Best of the Mint in Gold

The Coin Roosevelt Demanded Returns in Gold for America’s 250th Anniversary America’s most celebrated gold coin returns for the nation’s 250th anniversary, and the U.S. Mint saved...

Rare 1971 Malaysia 50 Sen Mint Tool Discovery Reveals How Edge Lettering Was Made

A 3.9-Pound Steel Mint Tool Reveals the Hidden Story of Malaysia’s 1971 50 Sen Most collectors know what appears on the face of a coin. Far fewer ever see the machinery that create...

Photos Show U.S. Mint’s 1804 Dollar Gold Coin & Silver Medal Set

CoinNews photos offer a closer look at the United States Mint’s 1804 Silver Dollar Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set, the first modern U.S. Mint coinage to recreate the famed 1804 dol...

Seven Dies That Shouldn’t Exist: NGC Certifies Remarkable 1971 Indonesian Coinage Discovery

Lost for 55 Years: Seven Uncancelled Dies Reveal the Secret Life of Indonesia’s 1971 Coins More than half a century after Indonesia rebuilt its circulating coinage, seven pieces of...

Only 10 Exist: Monnaie de Paris Strikes Table Mountain in 10 Ounces of Gold

Monnaie de Paris Table Mountain Gold A modern coin with a mintage of 150 qualifies as scarce. Drop that number to 25 and the collecting equation changes dramatically. Make only 10,...

Crayola Blue Crayon Recreated in 1.5 Ounces of Silver

A Crayola classic has been recreated in silver, with the familiar Blue crayon reproduced as a 1.5-troy-ounce collectible. The piece is the first release in the new Crayola Precious...

Goloid Dollars: America’s Electrum Coinage

By Jesse Kraft for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …..Updated and reformatted by CoinWeek Goloid Dollars, the “Crime of ’73,” and America’s Silver Crisis Few moments in American...

GOVMINT Exclusive 2026 American Bald Eagle Showcases Rising Numismatic Star Designer Beth Zaiken

The Coin America Was Never Meant to Own

GOVMINT Releases Exclusive Coins, 1933-2026 Saint-Gaudens "Fenton Double Eagle"

The Lincoln Cent the U.S. Mint Says Collectors Can’t Own

The Mint Made 1.57 Million of These Cents. Why Can’t Collectors Buy One? Most great American coin rarities became rare because the Mint struck very few of them. The 1974 aluminum c...

1837 Feuchtwanger Cent: The Tiny Token That Almost Changed U.S. Coinage

The Dime-Sized 1837 Token That Almost Replaced America’s Copper Cent In 1837, Americans needed small change. They also needed confidence. The Panic of 1837 shook banks, businesses,...

PCGS Grades First Discovery 2026 Trump Dollar With July 4 Privy Mark

A July 4 Trump Dollar Reached PCGS Before Release, Now the 250,000-Coin Hunt Begins A new modern U.S. coin hunt has already produced its first major certification milestone. Profes...

Found in a Tube of Ordinary Ikes: $264,000 Eisenhower Prototype Returns to Auction

1971-S Eisenhower Dollar Prototype In 2008, collector Lee C. Lydston looked through a tube of ordinary 40% silver Eisenhower Dollars at the Long Beach Coin Expo. One coin looked wr...

From the Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle to the Educational Series: Treasury Treasures Go on Display in Washington

America’s Most Beautiful Money Goes on Display, With the Original Art Behind It For coin and currency collectors, the U.S. Treasury has produced far more than money. For more than...

Heads or tails? $1 coin with Trump's face and gold finish to go on sale

The coins, which can be used as legal tender, stirred some criticism, particularly because of federal law that bars the depiction of a living president on US currency.

U.S. Mint Launches 1804 Dollar Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set

One of America’s most famous rare coins returns in a new form today as the United States Mint releases its Best of the Mint 1804 Silver Dollar Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set. The 1...

Trump’s $1 coin: Gold-finish coin featuring US president’s likeness to go on sale

1922 High Relief Peace Dollar: The Mint Experiment That Changed the Series

Why the 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar Became a Six-Figure Mint Experiment The 1922 High Relief Peace Dollar tells a more complicated story than collectors once believed. For decade...