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Post-by-Post Archives

• The Ten Rarest Three Dollar Gold Pieces
• Coins With Shady Pasts
• Who Owns the Most Gold ?
• Two-Legged Buffaloes?
• The Mystery of the Proof 1875 Gold Dollar
• 1849 Quarter Dollar Date Positions
• Rise of the Gold Standard in 14th-century England
• Counterfeit Indian Peace Medals
• THE BULLS, THE BEARS, AND CALIFORNIA GOLD COINS
• The Top Ten Mint State Saints
• Key-date San Francisco Mint Morgan Dollars
• This 19th Century Cent Design Lasted For Only One Year
• 1999-W 1/10th Eagle $5.00 Gold Matte Finish Error or Variety?
• Too Good to be True
• Avoiding Costly Mistakes When Building a Coin Collection
• Top Ten Rarest Liberty Head Quarter Eagles
• The Top Ten Rarest Ten Libs
• The Original Commemorative Quarter
• THE TOP TEN RAREST DAHLONEGA GOLD COINS – REVISITED
• Survival Rate of Proof United States Gold Coinage
• TWO-BITS, FOUR-BITS, SIX-BITS, EIGHT…
• A Story of Two Coins – Part 1
• Higher Powers of Magnification
• How To Collect Charlotte Gold Coins – By Doug Winter
• The Top Ten Best Coin Protection Products
• Top 10 Rare Coin Purchasing Strategies
• $20 Saint-Gaudens Series
• An Introduction to Commemoratives Coins
• Top 10 Most Important Grading Tips
• Transitional US Gold Coins
• Thematic Collecting of US Silver Commemoratives
• The Top Five Morgan Silver Dollars
• HOW TO PRICE VERY RARE COINS
• Ancient Fuhonsen Coins May be Japan’s Oldest Minted Currency
• The Coinage of Croesus
• The Top Ten Largest Gold Bullion Reserves
• The Original Plain Edge Coin – 1797 Half Cent
• 1834-1844: A Decade of Great Change for U.S. Gold Coinage
• The Stetson Collection Hoard
• The Story of America’s Most Beautiful Coin
• An introduction to Gobrecht Silver Dollars 1836-1837
• THE TWENTY-FIVE MOST OVERLOOKED EARLY SEATED COINS
• What is an Eagle?
• Understanding Coin Price Guides
• Is it Worthy? Who Really Knows the Value of a Rare Coin?
• Special Instructions for Submitting Platinum 10th Anniversary Eagles to NGC
• The Second US Mint at San Francisco: Part Three
• NEW ORLEANS DOUBLE EAGLES – An Update by Doug Winter
• Lady Lavery
• 2007-P Thomas Jefferson Doubled Die Reverse
• The Second US Mint at San Francisco: Part Two
• Why Do We Collect Things?
• The Second US Mint at San Francisco: Part One
• What is eye appeal? Answer depends on the person you ask
• Found Treasures: The Better Half of a Presidential Dollar
• United States Patterns
• The Three Major Eras Of Modern Proof Sets
• A Purist’s Lament
• Computer Grading Requires Human Input
• Getting to Know ANA Grading Standards
• Coin Buying “Tricks”
• ANACS Clearview 7™ Holder
• Hawaii and It’s Coinage …By James C. Johnston Jr.
• Ten Most Significant U.S. Commemoratives
• The Connecticut Coppers
• 5 Reasons to Buy and Collect Certified and Graded Coins
• INCREMENTAL GRADING
• Money, money, money: The history of cash
• Early Eagles, 1795-1804: A Date by Date Analysis
• Size Matters for Medals – Classifies three medal types
• From the Grading Room: $50 Gold Eagle Error
• Up Close ‘n’ Personal with the PCGS Grading Set
• The Phantom Dollars Of 1895
• PEDIGREES AND NUMISMATICS
• The Parthian Empire, some collectors focus on artistic interest
• THE TEN COOLEST UNITED STATES COINS REVISITED