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Buffalo nickels turn up in old jars and inherited collections more than almost any other pre-1965 coin, and that leads to a lot of disappointment: the overwhelming majority of the roughly 1.2 billion …

The Franklin half dollar is the coin collectors underrate and non-collectors overrate. Non-collectors see a big silver coin from the 1950s and assume it is rare; it is not, and a worn one is worth its …

The Standing Liberty quarter lasted only fifteen years, from 1916 to 1930, and it packs more collector drama into that span than most series manage in a century: a first-year mintage of 52,000, a desi …

Every week someone emails us a photo of a golden dollar with George Washington or John Adams on it and asks whether it is rare. The honest answer is that a Presidential dollar pulled from a bank roll, …

The Liberty Head nickel, better known to collectors as the V nickel for the big Roman numeral on its back, was struck from 1883 to 1912 and stayed in pocket change long after that. Most of the ones st …

On November 12, 2025, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach started the press at the Philadelphia Mint that struck the last Lincoln cent made for circulation. That ended a run that began with the Coinage Act o …

Every year the U.S. Mint sells two annual sets that hold the same denominations and look nearly identical in a catalog photo: the Proof Set and the Uncirculated Coin Set, which nearly every collector …

Ask a room full of collectors to name the most beautiful U.S. coin and the Walking Liberty half dollar wins more votes than anything but the Saint-Gaudens double eagle. The Mint agrees: it borrowed Ad …

On October 6 at noon Eastern, the U.S. Mint puts the 2026 Semiquincentennial Proof Set on sale at $107. That is more than two and a half times what the 2025 clad proof set cost, and the price has gene …

For the first time in the modern era, the U.S. Mint has put a privy mark on a circulating half dollar, and it did it twice. The 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollar, the one-year Semiquincentennial desig …