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  • America’s Rarest “What-If” Coins: Proven Strategies for Collecting U.S. Pattern Coinage
  • The Unique 1877 Pattern Morgan Half Dollar
  • Counterfeit Gold Coins Filled With Platinum: Hollow Gold

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coinweek.com /6 days ago

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...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

The Unique 1877 Pattern Morgan Half Dollar

Before the Morgan Dollar: The Unique 1877 Half Dollar Pattern A great coin sometimes tells collectors what came next. The 1877 Pattern Morgan Half Dollar, Judd-1520, does exactly t...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

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...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

1885 Pattern Morgan Dollar in Aluminum Shows Snowden’s Bold Fight Against Counterfeiters

This Rare 1885 Morgan Dollar Pattern Hid Its Secret on the Edge An 1885 Pattern Morgan Dollar in aluminum offered collectors a rare look at one of the Philadelphia Mint’s most intr...

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coinweek.com /1 week ago

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...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

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...

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coinweek.com /2 weeks ago

Mint Records Confirm Proof Dies Did Double Duty in 1883 and 1884

Proof Dies in Pocket Change? Mint Records Reveal an 1880s Coinage Surprise Collectors like clean categories. Proof coins belong in one box. Circulation strikes belong elsewhere. On...

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coinweek.com /2 days ago

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...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

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,...

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coinweek.com /1 week ago

1968 No S Roosevelt Dime: The Tiny Proof Set Mistake That Created a Modern Rarity

,A Missing “S” Turned This 1968 Proof Dime Into a $22,800 Modern Rarity In 1968, the United States Mint sought to restore order to American coinage. Instead, it accidentally create...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

The 1881 Three-Dollar Gold Piece: America’s 500-Coin Gold Rarity

Only 500 Were Made: The Odd $3 Gold Coin That Collectors Still Chase The 1881 Three-Dollar Gold Piece tells a strange American money story. It began with postage stamps. Then it mo...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

U.S. Mint Silver Plug Coins: The 1794 Planchet Problem That Collectors Still Chase

U.S. Mint Silver Plug Coins and the 1794 Planchet Problem In the first years of the United States Mint, quality control did not look modern. It looked human. It showed up as file m...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

The 1942 Glass Cent Pattern: The WWII Penny That Almost Shattered in America’s Pocket

The WWII Penny Made of Glass: America’s Strangest Cent Pattern In 1942, the United States Mint faced a wartime problem that reached all the way down to the humble cent. Copper matt...

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coinweek.com /2 weeks ago

1915-S Panama-Pacific $50 Octagonal: America’s Gold Coin That Broke the Circle

The $50 Gold Coin That Broke America’s Circle for 111 Years The 1915-S Panama-Pacific $50 Octagonal gold coin did something no other legal-tender United States coin had done. It br...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

1856 Flying Eagle Cent: The Pattern Penny That Changed American Coinage

The 1856 Flying Eagle Pattern Cent That Sold Congress on a New Coin The 1856 Flying Eagle cent ranks among the most famous small cents in American numismatics. It also ranks among...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

Unique 1977 Lincoln Cent Struck in Aluminum: The Modern Penny That Should Not Exist

The 1977 Aluminum Penny That Should Not Exist A 1977 Lincoln cent should be copper-colored. It should also weigh about 3.11 grams. Yet one extraordinary example breaks both rules....

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coinweek.com /3 days ago

Unique 1878 Gold Pattern Quarter Eagle Just Set a New Record

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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coinweek.com /1 week ago

1867 No Rays Shield Nickel with a Pattern Reverse

The 1867 Proof Shield Nickel Secret That Hid for 135 Years A five-cent coin should not need a detective story. This one does. Heritage Auctions will offer an 1867 No Rays Shield Ni...

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coinweek.com /4 weeks ago

1876-CC Twenty-Cent Piece : A Collector’s Guide

The Carson City Coin That Almost Disappeared: The 1876-CC Twenty-Cent Piece By CoinWeek Notes The 1876-CC Liberty Seated Twenty-Cent Piece ranks among the great rarities of United...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

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...

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

The Only Certified Proof 1828 Capped Bust Half Dollar

A Great Early Half Dollar Rarity An 1828 Capped Bust Half Dollar with extraordinary proof status sold for $192,000 in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ August 2023 Global Showcase Auction,...

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coinweek.com /2 weeks ago

1872 Three-Cent Silver in MS67: The Tiny “Fish Scale” That Closed a Denomination

This Tiny 1872 Silver Coin Ended One of America’s Strangest Denominations An 1872 Three-Cent Silver piece graded MS-67 by PCGS represents one of the great late-series prizes in 19t...

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wkbn.com /18 hours ago

$1 coin featuring Trump image unveiled

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

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coinweek.com /1 month ago

The Only U.S. Gold Coin Struck on an Elliptical Planchet

The “Football-Shaped” Gold Eagle: A Unique U.S. Mint Error A unique 2023 $5 Gold Eagle mint error shows how one tiny failure in the blanking process created one of the most dramati...

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