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Celebrating invention and ingenuity from the states of Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, and Texas, the United States Mint today released its 2025 American Innovation $1 Coin Proof Set™. Each coin in the set bears a 2025 date and belongs to the Mint’s American Innovation® $1 Coin Program. Produced in proof quality, they feature sharp relief, frosted […]

We’ll pick up where we left off – Thursday evening. It was literally the only evening that I didn’t have a business dinner, so we ended up grabbing food at a place I had my eye on all week, Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse. It was across the street from the Dodgers’ Minor League affiliate’s stadium, and

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1932-S Washington Quarter. Image: CoinWeek. By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….. As the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth in 1932 drew closer, the United States Mint began preparing the Nation’s numismatic arena. With the Act of March 4, 1931, the U.S. Senate decreed that the portrait of Washington “shall appear on

1793 Flowing Hair Half Cent. This example is one of the finest known. By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….. Why Is the 1793 Half Cent Important? The Flowing Hair, Cap Left Half Cent was the first design of the U.S. half cent denomination. It was a copper coin worth 1/200th of a dollar and issued for use

The India Government Mint, Hyderabad, has opened the bookings for the ₹100 commemorative coin issued to mark the Birth Centenary of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. The bookings are open from August 28, 2025, and it is subject to limited availability. Earlier, on August 7, 2025, the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, released the commemorative coin and postage stamp to

V & E Coin News – Three coins from Bruce Laquster’s “Renard Collection Commemorative Half Dollars in Mint State. Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) has announced the winners of its 2025 Registry Awards, celebrating exceptional coin collections from around the world. The honors, presented for the first time at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of

Three coins from Bruce Laquster’s “Renard Collection Commemorative Half Dollars in Mint State. Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) has announced the winners of its 2025 Registry Awards, celebrating exceptional coin collections from around the world. The honors, presented for the first time at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money last week (August 19-23), recognize

1796 Draped Bust Dime. Image: Stack’s Bowers / CoinWeek By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….. The Draped Bust Dime: America’s First “Dime” Not a Dime at All The 10-cent piece–or dime, as we know it–was originally and officially referred to as the “disme” (pronounced DEEM). This is how the denomination was

2010-D Franklin Pierce Presidential Dollar. Image: United States Mint / CoinWeek. By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …. The 2010-D Franklin Pierce Presidential Dollar is a one-dollar coin struck at the Denver Mint as part of the United States Mint’s Presidential Dollar Coin series. Congress authorized the program in 2005 with the