Buried Treasure and Sunken Gold
In 1622, twenty-eight Spanish galleons laden with gold and silver from Mexican mines set sail from Havana to ride the Caribbean current past Florida and onto Spain. Sailing single-file, the last of...
Coins That Celebrate the Fourth of July
What better way to show your patriotism and celebrate our nation’s birthday than with genuine U.S. Mint gold and silver coins featuring Lady Liberty and an American bald eagle to symbolize our free...
Coin Finishes – What’s in a Name?
Proof, Uncirculated, and Business Strike Coins DemystifiedIf you’re new to coin collecting, you may come across terms that leave you scratching your head. It’s important to know the jargon so you k...
Our look at famous coin designers shifts to the opposite side of the globe and Australian-born gold - with silversmith Stuart Devlin. Professional Life in Gold and Silversmithing Art Stuart Leslie ...
While a female designer’s work would not appear on a circulating U.S. coin until Glenna Goodacre’s Sacagawea Dollar was issued in 2000, when Congress authorized minting of bullion coins in 1985, th...
Coin Designers: James B. Longacre
1909 P Indian Head Cent in Circulated Condition, designed by James B. Longacre. In 1806, twelve-year-old James Barton Longacre left the family farm in Delaware County, Pennsylvania to escape from a...
Coin Designers: George T. Morgan
Bag of $100 Face 1921 - 90% Silver Morgan Dollar Extra Fine If there are any superstars in the coin-making business, coin designers are at the top of the list. Their products are seen by millions o...
Coin Designers: Ephraim Brasher
Some designers of US coins are so famous that the coins they produced are known by their names—Morgan Dollars, Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, Barber Quarters. They were well-known artists of their ti...
Coin Designers: Christian Gobrecht
“It is by all odds the best design on any American coin." High praise indeed, considering it came from Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the man who is generally regarded as having designed the most beautifu...
Coin Designers: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
$50 Gold American Eagle – obverse face designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Coin designers tend to be a fairly insular group, plying their trade in relative obscurity. And while a few have become her...
We’ve told you a lot about the joys of coin collecting—it’s a truly delightful hobby that has brought pleasure (and profit) to countless people for hundreds of years. We hope you’ve taken our advic...
Mule Coins Coin mistakes take many different forms, and some are more valuable than others. Some of the more interesting, rarest, and most valuable, are hybrid coins known as “mule coins.” Like the...
Collecting Lincoln Cents Part 5 – Lincoln Memorial Coins: 1959-2008
Our saga of the Lincoln cent brings us to contemporary coins—the ones in circulation today. A new design for Lincoln cents was released in 1959 and is known as the Lincoln Memorial cent. Designed b...
Collecting Lincoln Cents-Part 7-Lincoln Union Shield Coins:2010-Present
While the country’s pennies celebrated Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday in 2009, Congress was working on a design to replace the cent’s reverse motif once the party was over. It required the artwor...
Collecting Lincoln Cents – Key Dates Wheat Cents: 1909 First Year of Issue
Released in 1909 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the first-generation Lincoln cents had the 16th president’s bust on the front (obverse) and a wreath of wheat on th...
Collecting Lincoln Cents Part 6 – Lincoln Bicentennial Coins: 2009
2009 marked two events in the history of the fourteenth president and the coin that commemorates him. It was the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth and the centennial of the Lincoln one-cent coin. To ...