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American Liberty 2025 High Relief Gold Coin. Image: United States Mint / CoinWeek. On August 21, the United States Mint will open the sales window for the American Liberty 2025 High Relief Gold Coin, a $100 gold coin featuring an intricately designed sunflower and bee motif. With a mintage limited to just 12,000 pieces and […]

Innovative minting technology is showcased in today’s noon U.S. Mint release of the 2025-W Proof Laser Engraved American Silver Eagle, the first in the series to feature a laser-engraved privy mark. Limited to 100,000 coins and struck at the West Point Mint, the proof silver dollar carries an initial household order limit of one. According

2025 Bee £1 is set to be the UK’s rarest pound coin currently in circulation! In fact, as of this moment, the 2025 Bee £1 is even rarer than both the Salmon and Kew Gardens 50ps! The Royal Mint has confirmed that 30.855 million new £1 coins are entering circulation across the UK. The release

First Read, a continuing series of essays about classic and contemporary works of numismatic literature … Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney. London, Penguin (2024) paperback 365 pages. $33.65 ISBN : 978-1-847927514 “This is two thousand years old,” my father reminded me as he placed the small silver disc

V & E Coin News – The Government of India will issue a ₹108 commemorative coin to mark the 108th Birth Anniversary of Sri Satya Pramoda Teertha Swamiji. The Ministry of Finance issued a gazette notification on August 18, 2025, confirming this coin. Sri Satya Pramoda Teertha Swamiji was the 41st pontiff of the Shri Uttaradi Math, a

The Government of India will issue a ₹108 commemorative coin to mark the 108th Birth Anniversary of Sri Satya Pramoda Teertha Swamiji. The Ministry of Finance issued a gazette notification on August 18, 2025, confirming this coin. Sri Satya Pramoda Teertha Swamiji was the 41st pontiff of the Shri Uttaradi Math, a revered institution in the Dvaita Vedanta

V & E Coin News – By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….. 1943 Copper Pennies (officially known as 1943 Copper Lincoln Cents) have been discovered in various locations, including cafeterias, gumball machines, and in circulation. A Mint Chief Engraver even privately held one, and another is rumored to have been taken

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….. 1943 Copper Pennies (officially known as 1943 Copper Lincoln Cents) have been discovered in various locations, including cafeterias, gumball machines, and in circulation. A Mint Chief Engraver even privately held one, and another is rumored to have been taken by an employee from the Denver

2024 Flowing Hair High Relief Gold Coin, signed 45 of 230. Image: GreatCollections. By Charles Morgan for CoinWeek …. The Mint produced only 230 privy-marked coins. All were sold in December 2024, at record prices; few have returned to the market since. Coin “45” to sell at GreatCollections this September. A limited run of 230 privy-marked gold coins, produced

1831 Capped Bust Quarter. Image: Stack’s Bowers / CoinWeek. By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….. Also known as “About Uncirculated 58”, or “Borderline BU,” AU58 is a specific grade on the Sheldon Scale. A coin properly graded as AU58 shows only the slightest evidence of wear, typically on its highest points. It retains about 90% of its