The Holey Dollar was one of the very firstcoins to be used in Australia, still a penal colony at the time. The governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, enlisted the help of a convicted forger, William Henshall, to produce the coins. The colony had already been running for 20 year...
Canadian George V Half Dollar coin. Image: NGC Coin Explorer A recession during the early 1920s caused demand for larger-denomination coins, such as the half dollar, to founder. The mintage of the 1921 half dollar was a respectable 206,328 pieces, but virtually all of these pieces were wit...
In November, an anonymous donor in Fargo, North Dakota, left a 2016 Australian gold kangaroo coin worth nearly $3,000, per theForum. Weeks later, someone slipped four gold coins worth collectively around $6,800 into various Salvation Army kettles around ...
This specimen of the "King of U.S. Coins" is the finest known example of the 1804 Silver Dollar and is graded Proof-68 byProfessional Coin Grading Service. When this coin sold in August of 1999, it became the world's most valuable coin to date. It easily beat the previous record-hold...