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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...
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...
The 1792 Silver Disme Is the Dime America Almost Forgot In 1792, the United States did more than launch a Mint. It tried to prove that a new republic could make its own money, defi...
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...
The $10 Gold Rush Coin That Helped Break a Bank The 1849 Miners’ Bank $10 gold coin belongs to the first wild chapter of California gold. It also tells a sharper story than most Go...
Indian Peace Medals: Russ Augustin Explores Rare U.S. History Video with Russell Augustin  Indian Peace Medals rank among the most historic objects in American numismatics. Th...
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 Tiny “S” That Changed the American Penny Forever One small letter changed the American cent. In 1908, the San Francisco Mint struck the first Indian Head cents ever made outsid...
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,...
A Tiny 1820 Manila Copper Coin With a Huge Spanish Colonial Story An 1820 Philippines Octavo should not stop traffic. It measures only about 17 to 18 millimeters. It carries a valu...
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...
A Tiny 1859 Half Dime Hides One of the Mint’s Quietest Design Experiments The 1859 Liberty Seated Half Dime looks quiet at first glance. It weighs only 1.24 grams. It measures just...
The Tiny 1851 Silver Coin That Helped America Buy a Stamp A Superb Gem 1851 Silver Three-Cent Silver certified MS-67 offers collectors far more than grade rarity. It tells one of t...
The $1.175 Million 1792 Birch Cent and the Mystery Washington Never Explained The Bushnell-Parmelee-Jenks-Col. Green 1792 Birch Cent stands among the most important copper coins in...
,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...
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...
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...
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...
The Coin That Never Was: Unique 1937 Florin Die Trial Tells the Edward VIII Story A remarkable Royal Mint artifact captures one of the most dramatic transitions in British history,...
The 1841 No Drapery Dime Mystery: A Two-Coin Proof Rarity With a Newman Pedigree The 1841 Liberty Seated Dime No Drapery proof does not need size to command attention. It measures...
The Ghost Coins of 1870-S: How the San Francisco Mint Created a Numismatic Legend In 1870, San Francisco officials lowered a copper casket into granite. They meant to mark a beginn...
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...
A rare bronze window into James Earle Fraser’s 1913 Buffalo nickel Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold a remarkable bas-relief bronze galvano of James Earle Fraser’s reverse design for t...
America’s Mercury Dime Returns in Gold for the 250th Anniversary The United States Mint has opened one of its most closely watched Semiquincentennial numismatic programs with a coi...
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