Coin folders are used as a coin storage method to protect coins from the elements. Protection for coins was historically only available to affluent collectors...

A challenge coin is a small coin or medallion, bearing an organization's insignia or emblem and carried by the organization's members. Traditionally, they...

are rarely seen in circulation. The coins are sold by the Royal Mint at face value and also, with presentation folders, at a premium to that face value....

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals, and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists...

A commemorative coin is a coin issued to commemorate some particular event or issue with a distinct design with reference to the occasion on which they...

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Coin counterfeiting of valuable antique coins is common; modern high-value coins are also counterfeited and circulated. Counterfeit antique coins are...

and formed the Whitman Publishing Company. Whitman now primarily produces coin and stamp collecting books and materials. The company was owned by Anderson...

Coin grading is the process of determining the grade or condition of a coin, one of the key factors in determining its collectible value. A coin's grade...

circulation coin, sometimes called a business strike (US), is a coin minted and issued for commerce as opposed to those made as commemorative coins and proof...

scrip) other than coins and paper money. This includes "Good For" tokens, badges, counterstamped coins, elongated coins, encased coins, souvenir medallions...

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Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors include beautiful, rare, and historically...

Bi-metallic coins are coins consisting of two (bi-) metals or alloys, generally arranged with an outer ring around a contrasting center. Common circulating...

Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is an American third-party coin grading, authentication, attribution, and encapsulation service founded in 1985...

expensive coins. Most of these are auction prices. Several private sale prices over $2m are not in this list yet. "US Double Eagle gold coin sold for record...

two ways: Seigniorage derived from specie (metal coins) is a tax added to the total cost of a coin (metal content and production costs) that a customer...

Proof coinage refers to special early samples of a coin issue, historically made for checking the dies (as in demonstrating that something is true) and...

There are in more than 3,000 different VAMs however the coin certification company Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) does not recognize all of them...

Toning on a coin is the change of colour brought about through oxidization, which forms a thin layer of tarnish on the metal's surface, typically as a...

international third-party coin grading and certification service based in Sarasota, Florida. It has certified more than 60 million coins. NGC certification consists...

numismatics, token coins or trade tokens are coin-like objects used instead of coins. The field of token coins is part of exonumia and token coins are token money...

Although the vast majority of coins are round, coins are made in a variety of other shapes, including squares, diamonds, hexagons, heptagons, octagons...

coins are made incorrectly at the mint, including anything that happens to the coin up until the completion of the minting process. Mint error coins can...

Coin cleaning is the controversial process of removing undesirable substances from a coin's surface in order to make it more attractive to potential buyers...

The Sheldon Coin Grading Scale is a 70-point coin grading scale used in the numismatic assessment of a coin's quality. The American Numismatic Association...

Third-party grading (TPG) refers to coin grading & banknote grading authentication, attribution, and encapsulation by independent certification services...

plastic flips, cardboard flips, coin folders (press-in type), coin tubes, coin albums, and for higher value individual coins, coin slabs. The collection can...

A coin catalog (or coin catalogue) is a listing of coin types. Information may include pictures of the obverse and reverse (front and back), date and...

Numismatic Association Certification Service, better known as ANACS, is a coin grading company founded in 1972. Originally founded in June 1972 as the American...