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Does a Low Mintage Mean a Coin Is Valuable?
Pricing, Guides & Market Reports

Does a Low Mintage Mean a Coin Is Valuable?

The mintage figure is usually the first number a buyer looks up, and it is the easiest one to find. Every date and mint mark has one, printed in the catalogs and repeated on every price site, and it carries a pleasant air of certainty. 484,000 struck. 4,450,000 struck. Done. The trouble is that a […]
Priya Anand
Why Gold Prices Differ Between Dealers for the Same Coin
Market Updates & Premiums

Why Gold Prices Differ Between Dealers for the Same Coin

Open two browser tabs, drop the same one-ounce gold coin into both carts, and the totals will not match. Neither seller is doing anything improper. The metal is identical, the weight is identical, and the spot quote feeding both pages came out of the same wholesale market seconds ago. Gold prices differ between dealers because […]
Daniel Reyes
What Are the 2026 Semiquincentennial Coins? A Full Guide
New Issues & Mint News

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 […]
Thomas Albrecht
Are Franklin Half Dollars a Good Investment?
Silver Coins

Are Franklin Half Dollars a Good Investment?

Half dollars stopped being pocket change a long time ago, so when one turns up in a coffee can of old coins it gets a second look. If it shows Benjamin Franklin on the front and the Liberty Bell on the back, it is ninety percent silver and it left a mint between 1948 and […]
Grace Whitfield
The History of the U.S. Nickel, From 1866 to Today
U.S. Coins

The History of the U.S. Nickel, From 1866 to Today

The five-cent piece is the plainest thing in an American pocket. No silver, no gold, no eagle on the back, just a president and his house. It is also the only denomination still circulating in essentially the metal Congress gave it in 1866, and the one lawmakers are arguing over right now. The history of […]
Ruth Calloway
Silver Eagle Key Dates: When Bullion Turns Numismatic
Bullion vs. Numismatic Insight

Silver Eagle Key Dates: When Bullion Turns Numismatic

Most American Silver Eagles are worth the silver inside them plus a modest premium for being a coin the whole market recognizes on sight. That is the entire story for the overwhelming majority of the hundreds of millions struck since 1986, and there is nothing wrong with it. A one ounce government bullion coin is […]
Margaret Ellison
Is There a Best Time of Year to Buy Gold?
Macro Environment & Strategy

Is There a Best Time of Year to Buy Gold?

Gold opened Friday, September 11, 2026 at $4,359.40 an ounce, down roughly 1.1% from the previous close and the lowest the metal had traded since August 6. Ask around for a reason and you will get several. The August CPI report was due, expected to show consumer prices up 3.4% from a year earlier. Futures […]
Daniel Reyes
Are $10 Indian Head Gold Eagles a Good Investment?
Gold Coins

Are $10 Indian Head Gold Eagles a Good Investment?

Type “gold eagle” into a search box today and you will mostly get the modern one-ounce bullion coin the U.S. Mint has struck since 1986. That is a perfectly good coin, and we have written about it. But the eagle as a denomination is much older. It goes back to 1795, it was worth ten […]
Samuel Hart
Why Are Silver Premiums Higher Than Gold Premiums?
Market Updates & Premiums

Why Are Silver Premiums Higher Than Gold Premiums?

Buy a one-ounce gold coin and a one-ounce silver coin on the same afternoon, and something odd turns up on the receipt. The gold coin costs a few percent more than the metal inside it. The silver coin can cost fifteen or twenty percent more, and in a busy market a good deal more than […]
Daniel Reyes
What Is the American Palladium Eagle? A 5,000-Coin Sellout
New Issues & Mint News

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 […]
Thomas Albrecht
Are Standing Liberty Quarters a Good Investment?
Silver Coins

Are Standing Liberty Quarters a Good Investment?

Reach into a bag of 90 percent junk silver and sooner or later you will pull out a quarter with a striding figure on one side, an eagle in flight on the other, and a smooth blank step where the date ought to be. Dealers sort those into their own pile without much comment. The […]
Grace Whitfield
When Did the U.S. Stop Making Silver Coins?
U.S. Coins

When Did the U.S. Stop Making Silver Coins?

Ask a room of coin buyers when American money stopped being silver and you will get three answers, all partly right. The dime and quarter went first, the half dollar hung on five more years in a watered-down form, and the silver dollar had quietly stopped circulating long before either. The line most holders use […]
Ruth Calloway
Quantitative Easing and Gold Prices: What Actually Happened
Macro Environment & Strategy

Quantitative Easing and Gold Prices: What Actually Happened

The Federal Reserve spent three and a half years shrinking its balance sheet, then quietly stopped. Runoff ended on December 1, 2025. Since early January 2026 the System Open Market Account has been buying Treasury bills again, close to $250 billion of them by the start of July, and total assets stood at $6.74 trillion […]
Daniel Reyes
Are Krugerrands a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile
Gold Coins

Are Krugerrands a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

Almost every American who owns gold has handled a Krugerrand at some point, or been offered one, and a fair number are not quite sure what they are holding. The coin carries no dollar figure, no ounce marking that matches its weight on a scale, and a portrait of a nineteenth century Boer statesman most […]
Samuel Hart
How to Clean Coins Without Destroying Their Value
Collecting Tips

How to Clean Coins Without Destroying Their Value

Somebody hands you a cigar box of dark silver dollars from a grandparent’s dresser, and the impulse arrives before the thought does: make them look like money again. Every coin shop in America has watched that impulse walk through the door about an hour too late. The blunt version is that most cleaning takes value […]
Ruth Calloway
Why Coin Premiums Change When Gold and Silver Move
Market Updates & Premiums

Why Coin Premiums Change When Gold and Silver Move

Anyone who has watched a dealer’s order page for a few months has noticed something strange. Spot climbs hard, and the finished coin costs less over metal than it did before. Spot collapses, and the coin stubbornly refuses to get cheap. The metal is doing one thing. The coin is doing something else entirely. That […]
Daniel Reyes
How to Read Coin Auction Prices Realized
Pricing, Guides & Market Reports

How to Read Coin Auction Prices Realized

Auction archives are the closest thing the coin market has to a public transaction record. Anyone can look up what a particular date and grade brought last spring, in what holder, and how hard the bidding ran. That transparency is genuinely useful, and it is also easy to misread. The number printed next to a […]
Priya Anand
The Gold Donald Trump Coin With No Gold
New Issues & Mint News

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 […]
Thomas Albrecht
Are Graded Bullion Coins Worth the Premium?
Bullion vs. Numismatic Insight

Are Graded Bullion Coins Worth the Premium?

Walk any bullion show or scroll any listing site and you will see the same coin twice. There is the plain American Silver Eagle, sold loose in a plastic flip, priced a hair above the value of its ounce of silver. Then there is the identical year and design sealed in a hard plastic holder, […]
Margaret Ellison
Are Walking Liberty Half Dollars a Good Investment?
Silver Coins

Are Walking Liberty Half Dollars a Good Investment?

Ask a longtime coin dealer to name the most beautiful silver coin the United States ever put into circulation, and a good many will reach for the Walking Liberty half dollar before you finish the question. Struck from 1916 through 1947, it carries Adolph A. Weinman’s striding Liberty on the obverse and a mountaintop eagle […]
Grace Whitfield
The History of the U.S. Penny, From 1793 to 2025
U.S. Coins

The History of the U.S. Penny, From 1793 to 2025

On November 12, 2025, at the Philadelphia Mint, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach pressed the last circulating one-cent coin the United States will make. It closed a run of 232 years, longer than any other American coin has managed. The penny outlived the half cent, the trime, the twenty-cent piece, and every circulating gold coin, yet […]
Ruth Calloway
Are Indian Head Quarter Eagles a Good Investment?
Gold Coins

Are Indian Head Quarter Eagles a Good Investment?

Most pre-1933 United States gold coins wear their designs proudly on the surface, the way a Saint-Gaudens double eagle does. The little $2.50 Indian Head quarter eagle does the opposite. Its portrait and its eagle sit below the field, sunk into the metal rather than raised above it. Hold one at an angle and the […]
Samuel Hart
Which Gold and Silver Coins Are Easiest to Sell?
Market Updates & Premiums

Which Gold and Silver Coins Are Easiest to Sell?

Most buying guides stop at the purchase. You compare premiums, pick a coin, and the story ends when the package arrives. But every ounce you buy is half of a round trip. Sooner or later, you or your heirs will sell, and the form you chose years earlier decides how fast that happens and how […]
Daniel Reyes
The America the Beautiful Quarters Program: A Retrospective
New Issues & Mint News

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, […]
Thomas Albrecht
Are Mercury Dimes a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile
Silver Coins

Are Mercury Dimes a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

Pull a tray of Mercury dimes across a coin show table and something happens: people who never look twice at a modern quarter slow down. The little silver dime with the winged head is one of the most admired designs the United States ever put into pocket change, and it circulated by the billions from […]
Grace Whitfield

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