Did you know that the Communist Chinese are behind the move to eliminate the U.S. penny from circulation? Because of the explosive growth in China as a result of ... Read More

Last week's Coin Dealer Ethics scenario was about the nasty dealer practice of cherrypicking proof sets. I presented a scenario sent in by reader Rick B., who suspects his ... Read More

A plain edge Jefferson Presidential Dollar has been found in Iowa by Bruce Countryman, who found a single specimen among the dozens of rolls of Denver Mint Jefferson Dollars that ... Read More

The practice of dealers cherrypicking coins from the Proof sets is what I refer to here as a "nasty practice." It is becoming increasingly common in recent years, partly ... Read More

Last week, our Coin Dealer Ethics question was about a teenage collector named Casey who took his 1914-D Lincoln Cent out of a grading service holder so he could put ... Read More

Note: The changes noted below have been confirmed and posted to eBay's site on the Coin Sellers rules page (click the link to "show" "Some Examples.") There has been a ... Read More

For this week's Coin Dealer Ethics question, I'd like to borrow an idea from this month's issue of the Numismatist. (The Numismatist is the official journal of the American ... Read More

Last week, we took a look at an ethical scenario where a coin dealer was faced with a situation where an eBay auction closed at a very low price because ... Read More

The Wyoming State Quarter was quietly made available for sale on the U.S. Mint's Web site, and at local banks, as of September 4, 2007. There will be an ... Read More

The Sacagawea Dollar will be getting some new reverse types starting in 2009, thanks to a bill which has just passed both houses of Congress. H.R. 2358, known as ... Read More

I get a lot of positive feedback from readers who enjoy the ethical questions I have been posting. (Recent topics include Cherrypicking and Naive Sellers.) This week, let's ... Read More

I get a regular stream of email messages containing images of bizarre coinlike things that non-collectors have found in circulation. They invariably want to know what kind of error ... Read More