Only the third known example of the first Islamic coin to mention a location was offered during the Classical Numismatic ...

The Adams-Carter specimen of the Class III 1804 dollar was offered during the Heritage FUN Signature Auction and sold for ...

The 1879 Flowing Hair $4 "Stella" that Brian Hendelson lost and Chris Nokes found at the 2015 ANA National Money Show in Portland, Oregon. Honesty would prove to be the best policy, as a $60,000 gold ...

The shekel was used as tribute money, as seen depicted in this fresco by Italian renaissance painter Masaccio in Florence. Few words have such long and complex histories, and have held such widespread ...

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A multimillion-dollar hoard of more than 800 U.S. Civil War era coins was recently unearthed in a cornfield somewhere in the state of Kentucky. A multimillion-dollar hoard of more than 800 U.S. Civil ...

John Wexler guides collectors through the exciting and sometimes frenzied world of coins displaying collectible differences from "normal" coins in "Varieties Notebook." ...

Spotting the hint of glare that indicates a filed rim above the T of UNITED in this image would be even tougher if you were also peering past email and advertising pop-ups. One of the dangers of ...

This counterfeit Series 1882 $500 gold certificate is housed in a counterfeit early generation PCGS Currency holder. The contemporary plague of counterfeit coins being made and then placed into ...

This 1889-O Morgan dollar was one of many that had its surfaces sandblasted to make it no longer desirable to a collector wanting to remove it from a Nevada casino. In the early 1960s, the owner of ...

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Fadeout and taper of the design rim is seen at both ends of a small curved clip in a 1972 Lincoln cent. Newcomers to the hobby often ask if their clips, or incomplete planchet coins, are genuine.