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Original articles on U.S. mints, famous coins, legendary collectors, and numismatic terminology from CoinAppraiser.com.

Original articles on U.S. mints, famous coins, legendary collectors and engravers, and the terminology every coin owner should know — 69 articles plus our full glossary (open the glossary).

1652 Pine Tree Shilling

1793 Chain Cent

1793 Half Cent

1795 Capped Bust Right Eagles

1795 The First Year of the Mint

1796 Draped Bust Quarter

1856 Flying Eagle Cent

1857 Large Cent

1868 Large Copper Cent

1883 Liberty Head Nickel

1894-S Dime

1895 Proof Morgan Dollar

1900 Lafayette Dollar

1907 Indian Eagle Wire Rim

1909 V.D.B. Lincoln Cent

1913 Liberty Head Nickel

1916 Standing Liberty Quarter

1916 Walking Liberty Half Dollar

1943 Steel Lincoln Cent

1955 Double Die Lincoln Cent

20th Century American Gold Types

A Useful Library of Early Copper Coins

Abe Kosoff

Abner Kreisberg

B. Max Mehl

Bela Lyon Pratt

Capped Bust Half Dollars

Carson City Mint

Christian Gobrecht

Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green

Denver Mint

Early Gold Quarter Eagles

Edouard Frossard

Flowing Hair Silver Dollars

Gold Half Eagles

Half Cents Struck on Talbot, Allum, and Lee Tokens

Half Dimes

Heaton and the Silver Barons

Henry Chapman

Howard Newcomb

James Longacre

John Reich

Joseph J. Mickley

Joseph Wright

Lester Merkin

Lewis and Clark Gold Dollars

Lorin G Parmelee

Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr.

Matthew Stickney

Modern Numismatic Lingo

New Orleans Mint

New Philadelphia Mint

Panama Pacific Exposition Coins

Saint Gaudens Double Eagles

The American Numismatic Association

The Clapps of Numismatics

The First Philadelphia Mint

The History of the 1794 Silver Dollar

The Norweb Family

The Palace Collections of Egypt Sale of 1954

The Rarity of Early Gold

The Rise and Fall of 1903-O Silver Dollar

The San Francisco Mint

The Silver Dollar Girl

The Year 1796 Minting and Numismatics

Thomas Harrison Garrett

Twenty Cent Pieces

Virgil Brand

William Dunham