The Twenty-Cent Piece: America’s Shortest-Lived Silver Experiment
Few United States coin denominations have failed as quickly, or as quietly, as the Twenty-Cent Piece. Authorized in the mid-1870s and struck for only four years, this oddball silve...
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Few United States coin denominations have failed as quickly, or as quietly, as the Twenty-Cent Piece. Authorized in the mid-1870s and struck for only four years, this oddball silve...
A Tiny Weight Change Created America’s Rarest Carson City Coin that Sold for $3.6 Million A microscopic change in federal law created one of the greatest rarities in American numis...
The House bill allows cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest five cents.
The $1.25 Coin: How the U.S. Mint Created Its Most Famous Modern Mule Error In May 2000, Arkansas collector Frank Wallis opened a roll of new Sacagawea dollars and found the imposs...
The rare Irish 20p coins were meant to be returned to the Central Bank and withdrawn from use - but, evidently, not all of them were.
A Coin Born of Global Trade Competition The United States Trade Dollar stands as one of the most distinctive silver issues of the 19th century. Authorized under the Coinage Act of...
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...
Merchants press for passage of a bill to enact rounding standards as cash-handling businesses grapple with the cent’s gradual demise.
Due to the shortage of pennies, costs owed to pay a Fairfax County fee or tax in cash will now be rounded up or down to the nearest nickel.
With its darkened silver surface and coppery-gold hues, the more than 130-year-old dime may not look especially remarkable at first glance. But the 1894-S Barber dime is conside...
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...
1848 Gothic Florin Pattern: Britain’s Decimal Revolution in Silver At first glance, the 1848 Great Britain Gothic Florin Pattern looks like pure Victorian theater. Queen Victoria w...
It costs 13 cents to produce the five-cent coin. Congress wants the U.S. to explore more cost-effective methods.
This $1 Coin Shouldn’t Exist: Inside the Mystery of the Unique 1976 No S Eisenhower Dollar A dollar coin reportedly pulled from a Washington, D.C., department-store cash register n...
The U.S. Mint has unveiled a striking gold-colored dollar coin honoring President Donald J. Trump, coinciding with the nation's 250th anniversary celebration set for 2026. Crafted...
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...
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...
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...
DLRC has begun offering approximately 8,000 coins from a collection it has named the Bonanza Hoard, with portions scheduled to appear in weekly Super Sunday Auctions over the next...
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...
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...
Only 8,000 Were Struck: The 1866 Dime That Survived Reconstruction Only 8,000 business-strike 1866 Liberty Seated Dimes left the Philadelphia Mint. Even more remarkably, the Mint s...
A record-setting 1911-D Indian Head eagle purchased for $1.8 million anchors an extraordinary collection of 20th-century U.S. gold coins assembled over 14 years by an anonymous Wal...
The coins, meant to mark America’s 250th birthday, will also be sold on the Mint website at markups spanning roughly 50 percent to nearly 150 percent over their face value.
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