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Modern Coins: The period from 1965 to 1967 was an interesting time in US numismatic history, which produced a number of rarities including a No-S Proof Coin Set to be offered by Heritage at CSNS

From the NGC series on Counterfeit Detection A basic lesson will help you always catch fakes, like the 1895-O Morgan Dollar, which could be deceptive to many.

Doug Winter’s article on the decade between 1834 and 1844 that was the beginning of the modern era at the United States mint. The second half of this decade was especially interesting, as a number of experiments and acts of legislation provided some of most attractive and popular issues in the history of American coinage.

NGC Posted a great story about Certifying a Family Heirloom: 1805 $5 Gold Coin. Although not a coin collector, Robert McGough found his way to John Albanese to assist in getting his “heirloom” authenticated and certified.

Beginning with this article: The 1863 $10 Gold Eagle, Doug Winter is going to focus on issues that he regards as “Forgotten Rarities.” These are coins that are truly rare but which, for a variety of reasons, do not get the fanfare that they deserve.

Change may be in the air at one or more coin grading services, but dealers, collectors and investors will find business as usual at Certified Acceptance Corp. (CAC). That’s the company’s message to the hobby in the wake of reports that at least one of the two largest grading services is considering the establishment of “premium-quality” grade designations.

The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Gold Coin and Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Bronze Medal on March 18, 2010

A possibly unique gold coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar will go on display at the British Museum today – the Ides of March, marking the 2,054th anniversary of his death.

NGC graders are fortunate to have seen more coins than anyone, but they always take time to appreciate truly special coins. The unexpected encounter with this 1872-CC $20 is one such example. It is the Highest Graded example known

Daniel Frank Sedwick will be holding Treasure and World Coin Auction #7 on Wednesday-Friday, April 7-9, 2010. In great deference to the Sedwick patriarch, for the first time ever we are offering selections from the Frank Sedwick study collection of 1715-Fleet gold cobs

NEW & UPDATED – Our coverage of rare coin and currency news has expanded with Tim Shuck taking over as Editor of Coin News Daily. This is a special section of CoinLink where we scour the web for items of interest related to numismatics and post a short excerpt and link to these “off site” resources.

We have also made changes to The Bullion Report with daily news and article updates, and a weekly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.

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