The Boston Mint and the First Colonial Coins
Why the Massachusetts Bay Colony Began Striking Its Own Coins in 1652 How did the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a trade-based outpost of England’s vast maritime empire, become the firs...
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Why the Massachusetts Bay Colony Began Striking Its Own Coins in 1652 How did the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a trade-based outpost of England’s vast maritime empire, become the firs...
Why the 1652 Pine Tree Shilling Became Colonial America’s Most Famous Silver Coin The date says 1652. Yet the coin may not have existed until 15 or even 20 years later. That appare...
Heritage Auctions realized $436,092 in its mid-July Early Copper & Colonial U.S. Coins Showcase Auction, led by a pair of early American cents that each brought $6,100. The sal...
The U.S. Half Dollar With Three Dates, and a $19,200 Record Some coins tell their story with a portrait. Others rely on a famous battle, monument, or national symbol. The 1936 Dela...
1936 Norfolk, Virginia, Bicentennial Half Dollar NGC MS-65 with a CAC Gold sticker on a Vintage Black NGC Holder When a classic U.S. commemorative coin appears that checks every me...
America’s First Dime and the Collector Who Made 1796 His Mission America’s first dime entered circulation without the word DIME, a numeral, or any other statement of value. Instead...
Golden Echoes: Five Ancient Coins That Changed the World Gold has always represented more than just wealth. In antiquity, it symbolized the divine, immortal, untarnished, and reser...
The Only Gold CAC Mint State 1796 Quarter Heads to Auction A remarkable 1796 Draped Bust Quarter will offer collectors a rare combination of history, condition, and exceptional th...
Three distinctive new U.S. Mint products shaped like the Liberty Bell go on sale today as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration, launching the new Freedom Ringing series....
Coins are more than metal, they’re artifacts of the nation’s history. Each design reveals something about America’s identity, values, economic challenges, and changing societal tas...
The complete story of the 1995 Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Coin Program Congress created the 1995 Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Coin Program to help save historic gro...
This Gem 1857-S Double Eagle Survived a Hurricane and 131 Years Beneath the Atlantic Some rare coins survive history. Others seem to survive the impossible. This 1857-S Liberty Hea...
The orange-gold $20 coin has only about 20 to 25 known survivors.
Who Struck This Rare 1861-O Half Dollar? A Civil War Mint Mystery Deepens In 1861, the New Orleans Mint changed hands as the United States fractured into civil war. Yet its coin pr...
Collectors have another opportunity to acquire two of America’s most iconic silver dollar designs, as the U.S. Mint releases the 1776 ~ 2026 Enhanced Uncirculated Morgan and Peace...
The Ceiba: Liberty Struck in Silver Most countries outlive their money. In 19th-century Central America, something remarkable happened. The money outlived the country. The 1824 Cen...
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...
Why the 1872 Two-Cent Piece Became a Legendary Rarity The 1872 Two-Cent Piece did more than close a short-lived coin series. It marked the final circulation issue of a denomination...
Best of the Mint 1804 Silver Dollar Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set The date tells a lie. However, the coin tells one of the greatest stories in American numismatics. No U.S. Mint w...
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...
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...
This Texas Half Dollar Packs an Entire Revolution Into 30.6 Millimeters A superb 1937-D Texas Independence Centennial Half Dollar now offered through Stack’s Bowers Marketplace com...
August brings another high-profile slate of Semiquincentennial products from the U.S. Mint, including enhanced uncirculated Morgan and Peace silver dollars, two additions to the Be...
Unique 1878 Gold Pattern Quarter Eagle Sets $439,200 Auction Record Only one genuine gold example of the 1878 Judd-1566 Pattern Quarter Eagle survives. That fact alone places the c...
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