New 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar Variety

1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar

Professional Coin Grading Service (www.PCGS.com) has confirmed a new die marriage for the 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar. The coin was struck with a previously unknown obverse die and is now recognized as the new Overton 133 variety. It is the first new major die variety to be discovered on a 1795 Flowing Hair Half … Read more

Mudd and Sanders Give Collectors Their “Two Bits”

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New ANA Podcast Covers Conversations about Coins and Paper Currency “Two Bits,” a new podcast from the American Numismatic Association (ANA), is now available on money.org/podcast. Its hosts, ANA Museum Curator Douglas Mudd and The Numismatist author Mitch Sanders, the two discuss wide-ranging topics about numismatics and the world of coins and paper currency. In … Read more

Coin Collecting Albums Vol. 3 Set for Release August 1

Coin Collecting Albums Vol 3

After three years of research and writing, the third volume in David W. Lange’s series of books chronicling the publishers of coin albums and their product lines is set for an August 1 release. The book is titled Coin Collecting Albums, A Complete History & Catalog: Volume Three, Whitman Publishing Company Folders and Albums 1940-1978. … Read more

2020 World’s Fair of Money Suspended

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ANA Board of Governors to Consider Alternate Options The American Numismatic Association (ANA) announced today the suspension of the 2020 World’s Fair of Money®. The show, originally scheduled for August 4-8 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the largest annual coin and paper-currency event in the United States. The ANA Board of Governors has been deliberating the … Read more

Indian Head Gold Paces Near $12 Million

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It was a pair of rare Indian Eagles bidder pursued to top lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Long Beach Expo U.S. Coins Auction, as the two high-grade examples led more than 1,400 lots offered June 4-7. The U.S. Coins portion of the auctions brought a combined $11,051,014. “Although the Long Beach Expo was cancelled due … Read more