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Heidi Wastweet is an award-winning medallic artist. Over the course of her 30-year career, she has designed more than 1,000 coins, medals, and tokens, mostly for private mints. From 2010 to 2018, Heidi sat on the CCAC, where she, along with other members of the art community and general public, deliberated on the direction of American coin and medal design. If you have bought a coin or medal from...

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, former Coin World editor and head of ICTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce Beth Deisher joins us to talk about the pernicious threat that counterfeit coins pose to the coin industry. Counterfeit coins have been a fact of life since ancient times, but today’s counterfeiters operate sophisticated factories, have a global reach, and are more motivated than ever to di...

John W. Adams is a consummate collector and numismatic scholar, whose focus over many decades of activity has included studies into United States large cents, numismatic pedigree, U.S. and world medals, and in-depth research into the American numismatic auctions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. On July 14, 2018, numismatic booksellers Kolbe & Fanning will offer an important section of Ada...

A little more than thirty years ago, a coin dealer from California and a close circle of his dealer friends, bestowed new life upon the rare coin market with the introduction of a market-acceptable third party grading service. But there is far more to the story of the early days of PCGS than what you know and the industry as we know it today was built because of and in spite of the ideas that went...

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan has an in-depth conversation with coin dealer Rob Oberth, owner of Oberth Rare Coins & Currency in Marietta, Georgia, and founder of the facebook group Coin Dealers Helping Coin Dealers. We’ve followed this dealer to dealer trading group since its infancy and watched it grow to an active trading group with hundreds of active dea...

The world mints create thousands of collector coins each year, many push the limit of what we have long considered the definition of coin and good taste. In the US, however, the same staid process that has culminated in a generation of boring coin design continues apace. How can the CCAC, the CFA, Treasury, and the Mint's most talented artists combine to create coins that often leave collectors wa...

In this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to John Kraljevich. Noted expert on US Coins, Americana, a fellow alumnus of the University of Virginia, and also a candidate for the State House of South Carolina in district 26. John and I talk about cataloging the great coins in the American federal series; what his area of specialty - Americana - says to us about the American experience; and how...

Better known in the wider hobby by the nom de coin “R. Tettenhorst” (which was actually the name of his secretary, to whom his packages were addressed), Bernard Edison--“Bunny” to his friends--carefully assembled his collection over a lifetime of business and civic success in the St. Louis, Missouri area. A member of the Edison family of Edison Brothers Stores fame, Bernard was born on March 23, 1...

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, we talk to Daniel Frank Sedwick, numismatist, auctioneer, and owner of Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC, the premier seller of cob and shipwreck coins in the United States. On May 15, Sedwick’s will auction a unique and historical regulated gold cob struck in Peru. We talk about the significance of this coin, cob coinage, what it’s like to collect in literal Treasure. *...

Distinguished numismatist Pat Heller joins Charles Morgan for this episode of the CoinWeek Podcast. Pat has always strongly advocated that people diversify their holdings with some amount of precious metals, but in the Age of Trump, will we see the political and economic winds change, making Americans more secure in the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. government? Or, should stackers continue t...

While coin conventions focused on U.S. coins have stagnated in recent years, one area of the coin show circuit has continued to thrive: ancient and world coin shows. Whether its the New York International Numismatic Convention or the upstart Chicago Coin Expo, collectors of ancient and world coins see many benefits from buying coins in person and meeting with dealers and fellow collectors. In this...

In this episode of the coinWeek podcast, we talk to Mark Stephenson, Vice President of PCGS. We ask Mark about the state of modern coin releases one quarter into 2018, how label programs have become more sophisticated in recent years, and what level of effort goes into the design of special coin holders and special PCGS insert programs. It's an insightful conversation about what is happening right...

Ira Goldberg is a fifty-year veteran of the rare coin industry. Over the course of his career, Ira has handled virtually every numismatic rarity you can think of. But the project he has worked on in secret over the past fifteen years with an anonymous collector may be his most significant endeavor. Called the Tyrant Collection, this varied collection of rare and important coins spans the millennia...

Despite barely circulating, the Susan B. Anthony dollar can still be found at your local bank for face value. The coin, struck in earnest in 1979 and 1980, and then only for collectors in 1981, was an immediate failure upon its release and stockpiled in bank vaults and the Treasury by the tens of millions. Then, without much fanfare, the coin made a one year return in 1999, at the same time that t...

Bob Evans has been there from the start. Chief scientist and historian for the salvage and recovery effort of the famous SS Central America, "the Ship of Gold". The SS Central America sank in 1857. On board, was millions of dollars in today's value of gold and silver coins, gold ingots, and other valuable artifacts. In 2014, a second salvage of the site was conducted and the fruits of that work ha...

This is THE episode of the CoinWeek Podcast that you will want to listen to, if you want to learn exactly how the coin market works on the inside. Doug Winter is a lifelong devotee to the rare coin market, and expert on American gold coins and their varieties, and a published author and blogger, who is one of the leading experts in American numismatics. Doug and Charles cover a lot of ground in th...

Charles Morgan breaks down the ins and outs of the 1976 Bicentennial 3-Coin Silver Set. Is this a silver coin set that has potential for big profits? What do the typical coins grade out? What is the recent price performance and certified population total growth? All of these are important factors that modern coin collectors and investors must consider to fully understand the market. You won't find...

Patrick O'Connor has just published a great reference on the coinage of Queen Isabella II of Spain. This 19th century monarch ruled over a Spain that was greatly diminished compared to its heyday as a global colonial power. Through her coinage and the struggles of her nation to coin and circulate its own money, numismatists can learn a great deal about the state of her empire. *** This CoinWeek po...

Numismatic News editor Dave Harper has just returned from a trip to the Beijing International Coin Exposition, one of the world's fastest growing coin shows. In his column, Dave calls the show a "Trade Show", which sparks discussion with CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan, who after attending this year's World Money Fair in Berlin thinks that the trade show element is just what the American coin show...

This week on the CoinWeek Podcast, we get into the weeds about numismatic research and how today’s numismatists are undoing years of faulty understandings of some of America’s most important coins. David McCarthy is our guest today. David stunned the hobby after he revealed his research that points to a fascinating origin story of the Type 2 Nova Constellatio Quint - a coin that his firm Kagin’s p...

Tim Rathjen is a coin dealer and inventor. He is obsessed with coins and has developed a pattern recognition technology that automates the time intensive and knowledge intensive task of sorting bags of coins. We discuss the implications of his new machine - called NUMAN - his upcoming coin app, and more... next on the coin week podcast. *** This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Travel b...

Chris Costello is not only a US Mint Artist Infusion Program coin designer, but is also the creator of the Papyrus font. Costello developed the font shortly after completing his undergraduate degree in 1982. Since then, the font has appeared as a standard choice on hundreds of millions of computers around the world. A recent Saturday Night Live skit thrust Chris and Papyrus into the media spotligh...

Ed Moy was director of the United States Mint from 2006-2011, at which time he had more than a few opportunities to pay a visit to the United States bullion Depository at Fort Knox, a super secure installation that has fed into hundreds of conspiracy theories surrounding the Fed and America's recall of gold bullion in the 1930s. We ask Ed a series a questions about his visits to the facility and w...

A 96 square foot portrait of Abraham Lincoln made up entirely of one cent coins won the grand prize at ArtPrize on October 8, 2017. We speak with artist Richard Schlatter about his unique creation. * * * This CoinWeek podcast is brought to you by PCGS. Travel back in time to the emergence of the premier third-party coin grading company. For limited time, collectors can secure their coins with thro...

The CoinWeek Podcast returns after a short hiatus. We've been up to our eyeballs in new site design, an hour-long new video, and preparations for our next on location video shoot. In this episode, editor Charles Morgan talks about the upcoming United States Mint forum and big issues he thinks that the Mint needs to address to truly make an impact in today's numismatic market. * * * This CoinWeek p...