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A Brief and Unusual Chapter in U.S. Coinage The Twenty-Cent Piece stands as one of the most unusual denominations in United States history. It entered circulation with promise. How...
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A Brief and Unusual Chapter in U.S. Coinage The Twenty-Cent Piece stands as one of the most unusual denominations in United States history. It entered circulation with promise. How...
By CoinWeek Notes ….. The Birth of the Two-Cent Piece in 1864 In 1864, Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 and introduced a brand-new denomination: the two-cent piece. At the t...
A 1986 Lincoln Cent struck on a Roosevelt dime planchet grabs attention at first glance. It looks like a penny, yet it shows the size and silver-gray color of a dime. Collectors of...
Why the 1850 Ring Cent Almost Changed American Coinage Long before the Flying Eagle cent changed American pockets, the United States Mint chased a bolder answer. Copper prices had...
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,...
The 1974 Aluminum Cent Almost Reached Auction. Then the U.S. Mint Took It Back. The 1974 aluminum cent ranks among the most famous “coins that never were” in American numismatics....
This 1885 Cent Was Struck in a Metal Once Treated Like Treasure The 1885 aluminum Indian Head cent looks familiar at first. James B. Longacre’s Indian Head design appears on the ob...
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...
The $3.12 Million Half Dime That Hid From Collectors for 108 Years The 1870-S Liberty Seated Half Dime ranks among the most important trophy coins in American numismatics. Only one...
The Mint Mistakes That Created America’s Most Famous 20th-Century Overdate Coins Mint errors fascinate collectors, but they also create confusion. Each month, grading services and...
By CoinWeek Notes ….. The Mint Act of 1890 allows the design of a United States coin to be changed every 25 years. Thus, in 1916, there was interest in replacing United States Min...
The 1909-S/Horizontal S Lincoln cent holds a special place in American numismatics. It combines first-year Lincoln cent appeal with a minting blunder that collectors can actually s...
The Lincoln Cent That Nearly Changed Forever In 1952, the Lincoln cent nearly took a bold new direction. The artist behind that proposed change was James Earle Fraser, one of Ameri...
The Half Dollar That Celebrated San Francisco’s Miraculous Comeback On April 18, 1906, San Francisco woke to disaster. A massive earthquake struck before dawn. Then fires swept thr...
The U.S. coin with five dates, but not the year it was struck. The 1936 Norfolk half dollar may be the most “talkative” coin in United States history. It carries five dates. It pac...
By Philip Thomas for PCGS …… Small-size U.S. banknotes often stand in the shadow of earlier large-size notes. Collectors know the names: Battleship, Bison, Black Eagle, Woodchopper...
The Bolivia 1942 50 Centavos struck on a U.S. wartime nickel planchet ranks among the most unusual discovery coins in modern numismatics. The Philadelphia Mint struck Bolivia’s 194...
By CoinWeek Notes The 1793 Chain Cent stands at the start of federal coinage. The United States Mint delivered the first 11,178 copper cents on March 1, 1793, from the first Philad...
By CoinWeek Notes ….. In the early 1930s, the United States suffered from a widespread economic depression that followed the 1929 stock market crash. The “Roaring Twenties” came to...
The Four Dollar Stella has always lived in two worlds. On paper, it is a pattern coin. In the marketplace, however, collectors treat it like a trophy issue in the regular U.S. gold...
A mintmark can change a coin’s value in an instant. In some cases, one small letter turns a common coin into a four-figure rarity. For example, as of April 2, 2026, PCGS lists a 19...
A small silver dime can carry a big story. The 1928-D Mercury Dime does exactly that. Denver struck just 4,161,000 examples that year. As a result, the issue ranks among the better...
By Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez for CoinWeek.com ….. Searching through $25 in penny rolls still feels like a treasure hunt you can do from home. A standard bank box gives you 50 rolls...
Denver’s First Nickel: 1912-D Liberty Head Nickel in MS-66+ CAC Comes to Auction In February 1912, the Denver Mint made nickel history. For the first time, the facility struck a Un...
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