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The Best of the Mint Series Is Complete: What the Sales Say
The U.S. Mint’s year-long tribute to its own back catalog ended on September 24, when the 1907 Saint-Gaudens High Relief $20 Gold Coin and Silver Medal Set went on sale at noon Eastern. It took 8,191 orders in its first few days, enough to debut at the top of the Mint’s weekly sales report for […]
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What Is the Liberty Bell Shaped Gold Coin? A 2026 First
At noon Eastern on July 16, 2026, the United States Mint began selling a coin that will not fit in a coin tube. It is shaped like the Liberty Bell, crack and all, with the yoke across the top and the skirt flaring at the bottom. Nothing about it is round. That is a bigger […]
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2027 Working Dogs Commemorative Coins: What to Know
The Mint held its design unveiling at the White House on September 21, which is not how most commemorative programs begin their public life. The occasion was the 2027 Working Dogs Commemorative Coin Program: three coins, three different kinds of working dog, and a set of designs that have been waiting in line since Congress […]
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The 2026 9/11 Half Dollar: What to Look For in Change
Half dollars stopped being pocket change a long time ago. The Mint issued none for general circulation between 2002 and 2020, striking them only for collectors, and the Federal Reserve did not begin ordering them again until 2021. Plenty of people under fifty have never received one from a cashier. That is what makes September […]
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What Are the 2026 Semiquincentennial Coins? A Full Guide
Pull a handful of change out of your pocket this month and look at the dates. If a dime, a quarter, or a half dollar reads “1776 ~ 2026” instead of a single year, you are holding a piece of the broadest circulating redesign the U.S. Mint has attempted since the Bicentennial. Nearly every denomination […]
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What Is the American Palladium Eagle? A 5,000-Coin Sellout
The order window opened at noon Eastern on September 3. About eight minutes later, the U.S. Mint’s newest precious metals coin was unavailable. Buyers took 4,778 of the 5,000 authorized 2026-W American Eagle palladium coins, roughly 96 percent of the entire issue, and the Mint’s sales report published on September 9 confirmed the count. Palladium […]
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The Gold Donald Trump Coin With No Gold
Editor’s Note A gold-colored U.S. dollar just created the kind of collector frenzy that makes headlines, with one small catch: there isn’t any gold in it. That’s not a scandal. But it is a perfect lesson in the difference between collectible value, precious-metal value, and marketing value, three things buyers had better learn not to […]
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The America the Beautiful Quarters Program: A Retrospective
For twelve years, the loose change in American pockets carried a rotating gallery of national parks, forests, and historic sites. The America the Beautiful quarters program ran from 2010 through 2021, and by the time it wrapped up it had put 56 different reverse designs into circulation, one for every state, the District of Columbia, […]
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