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NGC Puts a $2,500 Bounty on the First July 4th Privy Quarter Found in Circulation
There is a quarter worth $2,500 somewhere in America’s loose change, and nobody knows whose pocket it will land in. Numismatic Guaranty Company has offered a…
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2026 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set. A Year That Rewrote America’s Pocket Change
The annual uncirculated set is usually the most predictable product on the U.S. Mint’s calendar: the same denominations,…
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1984 Lincoln Penny Varieties To Look For in Pocket Change
We now continue our examination of Lincoln cent varieties. Moving right along to the varieties that you can…
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Grand Prix Centenary 50p: The Royal Mint Marks 100 Years of British Motorsport on Its First Ever Racing Coin
The Royal Mint has, for the first time in its history, put motorsport on an official UK coin.…
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The Museum Becomes the Coin: Monnaie de Paris Marks the Musée d’Orsay’s 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, a disused Beaux Arts railway station on the left bank of the Seine reopened as…
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The Libertas Americana Returns: Monnaie de Paris Reimagines Franklin’s Medal for America’s 250th
In 1783, a French engraver named Augustin Dupré finished a medal that Benjamin Franklin had dreamed up entirely…
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Monnaie de Paris Marks America’s 250th by Reviving the Libertas Americana
The Monnaie de Paris has opened its tribute to the 250th anniversary of American independence, and it has…
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The Royal Mint Strikes a Coin for American Independence, and Buries the Rebellion in the Relief
There is a quiet irony in this release that the marketing copy never quite says out loud. To…
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U.S. Mint to Slip 250,000 “July 4th” Privy-Mark Quarters Into Pocket Change for America’s 250th
The U.S. Mint has found a way to make a coin nobody can buy. On June 23, the…
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Monnaie de Paris Marks the Marilyn Monroe Centenary With a Five-Coin Tribute in Gold and Silver
A hundred years after a baby named Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles, the woman she…
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The Royal Mint Marks 500 Years of the Crown, and the Gold Coin That Started It All in 1526
The Royal Mint has released 500 Years of the Crown, a UK £5 range marking half a millennium…
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