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The Tools of a Professional Coin Grader
While obviously not limited to U.S. coins, this recent article gives a look into the tools that professional graders, and in this specific case, our Director of Numismatic Education and Outreach, use… (View Post)11 -
PCGS Confirms New 1795 Flowing Hair Half Dollar Variety
The coin was struck with a previously unknown obverse die and is now recognized as the new Overton 133 variety. It is the first new major die variety to be discovered on a 1795 Flowing Hair Half Doll… (View Post)28 -
PCGS Now Recognizing Canada 1967 Doubled Die Obverse Cent
Discovered in the 1970s some of these coins feature a moderate doubled die variety on the obverse, noticed most prominently in the lettering “D • G • REGINA.” This doubled die exhibits pivoted hub do… (View Post)2 -
1856-1864 Copper-Nickel Cents
In this just released article, we take a deep look at the nine year span of copper-nickel cents. In 1856, Director of the United States Mint James Ross Snowden, opted for a new one-cent coin alloy co… (View Post)6 -
A Closer Look at a Series of 1869 $1 “Rainbow Note”
Owing to the multiple colors visible on these notes are white paper with a blue partial tint, red serial numbers, green serial number frame and top tint, and a red or “pinkish” Treasury seal. These h… (View Post)2
