Congress passed a bill allowing cheaper 5-cent coin compositions, including zinc clad in nickel, as minting costs exceed face ...

Congress passed a bill allowing cheaper 5-cent coin compositions, including zinc clad in nickel, as minting costs exceed face value. It also permits transaction rounding and potential suspension of ...

CAC Grading auctioned 20,000 CEO John Albanese-signed labels, raising six figures for nonprofit numismatic groups, charities ...

Uncirculated 2007-W American Eagle silver dollars were struck on burnished planchets. Grading labels at the time carried no notation as such. I purchased a 2007-W silver American Eagle certified Mint ...

B. Max Mehl was a Texas coin dealer who became one of the most prominent professional numismatists of the mid-20th century. A complete set of auction catalogs by Texas dealer B. Max Mehl was among the ...

Reading and acting on the fine print found on U.S. silver certificates in the mid-1960s meant big profits for thousands of individuals and businesses. Not everyone reads the “fine print,” but in the ...

The Seleucid King Demetrius II struck this tetradrachm at Tyre during his second reign, 129 to 125 B.C. It is dated to 127 or 126 B.C., not long before Seleucid silver coinage ended at Tyre. Among the ...

The U.S. Mint’s cost to produce and distribute each copper-plated Lincoln cent during Fiscal Year 2024 exceeded 3.5 cents. For nearly two decades, the cost to the United States Mint to strike and ...

These designs considered by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee were recommended for the 2026 Semiquincentennial, U.S. Constitution quarter dollar. The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee ...

This 1941-D Lincoln cent shows an improper alloy mix error. The lighter streaks are enriched in zinc, tin, or both. Freshly minted coins are sometimes adorned by ...

Patricia Collins has been named to the position of director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the appointment of Patricia “Patty” S. Collins to ...

A revolution began in 2005 and things have not been the same since. The concept of third-party grading made the leap from coins to paper money when the two major grading services introduced slabbing ...