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Thrymsas: The Tiny Gold Coins That Launched Anglo-Saxon England’s Money

Before Pennies, England Had Thrymsas: Tiny Gold Coins With a Huge Backstory By Mike Markowitz After Rome’s power faded in western Europe, gold still spoke. Small gold coins moved t...

Ancient Athens Coins to Debut at 2026 World’s Fair of Money

A Southern California woman’s fascination with artistic jewelry and other small, finely crafted objects has led her to assemble an outstanding collection of ancient Greek silver co...

The Secret Pattern Royal Mint Hides On Its Coins

You might already know how pounds got called a “quid,” or why the £1 coin has 12 sides.But I’d never even heard of Sterling coins joining up together to form a Power Rangers-style...

Counterfeit Gold Coins Filled With Platinum: Hollow Gold

The Strange Story of The Hollow Gold Scam: Counterfeit Gold Coins Filled Real $10 Eagles With Platinum By Roger W. Burdette – Updated by CoinWeek May 2026 Counterfeit Gold coins ha...

Celestial Twins on Ancient Coins: Castor, Pollux, and the Power of the Dioscuri

Dioscuri Ancient Coins: Castor and Pollux Shine Across Greek and Roman Coinage By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek Ancient coins carried stories. They also carried power. Few ancient co...

$1 coin featuring Trump image unveiled

The coins have a gold-like finish, but aren't made of gold.

Strasbourg Coins and the 1518 Dancing Plague: Small Silver, Big History

The Tiny Strasbourg Coin From the Era of Europe’s Strangest Plague In July 1518, the streets of Strasbourg became the stage for one of Europe’s strangest recorded public crises. A...

Photos Show Best of the Mint Mercury Dime Gold & Silver Set

CoinNews photos offer a closer look at the U.S. Mint’s first Best of the Mint product, the 1916 Mercury Dime Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set, highlighting the 24-karat gold coin and...

Trump Coins: Silver and gold medallions bearing Trump's face, 'designed' by him, cost up to $12,000

Coin Planchets: The Invisible Disc That Makes or Breaks a Bullion Coin

By Alex Sim at First Mint Collectors notice the finished coin first. They see the mirror surface of a Proof coin. They study the crisp strike of a Britannia. They feel the weight o...

America’s Rarest “What-If” Coins: Proven Strategies for Collecting U.S. Pattern Coinage

United States pattern coins represent ideas that never reached circulation. They show what the U.S. Mint considered, tested, and ultimately rejected. For collectors, that makes the...

US Mint in Philadelphia strikes commemorative coins for 2026 FIFA World Cup

The Mint says the limited-edition half-dollar, silver dollar, and $5 gold coins will only be available this year.

Coins Don’t Lie: ANA Pittsburgh Lectures Trace 250 Years of American Numismatics

ANA Lectures Reveal America’s 250-Year Money Story American coins do more than pass from hand to hand. They carry the record of a nation. In 2026, that record will take center stag...

Romania’s central bank launches commemorative coins marking 50 years since Nadia Comăneci’s perfect 10

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) announced the launch of a new series of commemorative coins dedicated to Nadia ComДѓneci to mark 50 years since the first perfect 10 in Olympic g...

The Lydian Lion Trite: The First Official Coin and the Birth of Money

Before coinage, money had weight. Then Lydia gave it a face. That face belonged to a roaring lion. It appeared on a small lump of electrum more than 2,600 years ago. Yet this tiny...

U.S. Mint Liberty Bell Coins Revive a 111-Year Numismatic Rarity, but Also Raise Collector Concerns

The U.S. Mint’s $19,600 Liberty Bell Coin Revives a 1915 Rarity, and a Pricing Fight The 2026 Liberty Bell gold coins mark one of the boldest U.S. Mint releases of the Semiquincent...

$1 coin featuring Trump image unveiled

The coins have a gold-like finish, but aren't made of gold.

1792 Copper Disme: The First U.S. Coin May Have Been a Dime That Wasn’t a Dime

Did America’s First Coin Start in a Philadelphia Cellar? The 1792 Copper Disme does not look loud. It does not need to. It sits at the edge of the American coinage story like a lit...

The Finest 1792 Half Disme: America’s First Federal Coin With a Direct Rittenhouse Pedigree

The Tiny 1792 Coin That Launched America’s Mint It arrived before the first Philadelphia Mint building stood ready. It carried a new national promise in silver. Also, it passed thr...

Riddle of the three coins

This is based on a puzzle I read many years ago in an even older Mathematics journal. The journal can be found through archive searches, so I will refrain from giving the name of t...

New 50p coins revealed by Royal Mint worth at least 30 times their face value

The Royal Mint has revealed two new 50p coins to mark 15 years of Game of Thrones.

Coins Of The Realm

Does anyone feel like he can just toss his 250th anniversary crap and let us hold a wake for the country we once had? It's so sickening to see him putting his stink on everything....

U.S. Mint FIFA World Cup 2026 Coins Go on Pre-Order Thursday

The United States Mint opens pre-orders this Thursday for seven FIFA World Cup 2026â„¢ commemorative coin products, including proof and uncirculated $5 gold coins, silver dollars,...

1879 Coiled Hair Stella Gilt: The Gold Coin That Wasn’t

Paradime is offering this 1879 Gilt Stella – Looks Like Gold, but Its Real Story Is Better At first glance, the 1879 Coiled Hair Stella gilt pattern looks like one of America’s gre...