Last week, I related a situation at a coin show where one dealer felt that another dealer was stealing from him, because the buying dealer engaged in a practice called ... Read More

I must confess that when I opened my first set of Proof Presidential Dollars, I thought I had a double error of sorts right from the start. First of ... Read More

There have been a lot of rumors swirling around the subject of the Presidential Dollar edge lettering recently, and I've been getting a lot of email asking for clarifications on ... Read More

I had an interesting debate with a coin dealer about ethics at a coin show I attended recently. The dealer had some 5,000-coin bags of wheat cents for sale ... Read More

The United States Mint began accepting orders for the 2007 Platinum Eagle coins on Tuesday, July 17 at 12 noon ET. The coins contain .999 fine platinum bullion and ... Read More

U.S. gold coins are among some of the most interesting coins ever issued by the United States. Probably the best thing about U.S. gold is that many of the ... Read More

The Florida United Numismatists (FUN) organization is sponsoring its 2007 Summer FUN Coin Show this weekend in West Palm Beach, Florida. This is the smaller of the two shows ... Read More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Warren S. White, ("Scott" to his friends,) has been a coin collector all his life, and he's owned some pretty fabulous coins from time to time. ... Read More

If you're like most collectors, you like to get a bargain when you buy coins for your collection. Unfortunately, most novice collectors' definition of a "bargain" is incorrect! ... Read More

My regular readers know that one of the fundamental points I try to get across to novice coin collectors is that they must understand the difference between a coin's price, ... Read More

I remember an experience I had when I first started collecting ancient coins. I used to visit the shop of a local coin dealer every month or so, just ... Read More