Back in 1999, Jennifer Scott, now 49, heard on the news that the U.S. Mint was issuing quarters to honor each of the 50 states. She began collecting the quarters, each featuring a design specific to ...

Boasting the most prestigious coin collection in the United States, the American Numismatic Society is renowned for its curation of and research on the history of currency. Now they're trading their ...

The United States government has stopped minting pennies, leading to a surge in interest in coin collecting as both a hobby ...

Keil Sherman remembers the joy of receiving gold coins from his grandmother, Jean Grossman, on his birthday. The coins, given to him throughout his teenage years, were from his grandmother’s family ...

Don't let valuable coins become worthless due to a simple mistake.

Coin collecting can feel like stepping into a glittering treasure hunt where history meets opportunity. Beyond the charm of owning tiny artifacts from distant eras, many collectors are drawn by the ...

In a digital world filled with credit cards, electronic payments and direct deposits, you can go for days without handling actual money. But for collectors and hobbyists all over the world, there’s no ...

There are lots of things that don’t make sense to me, more of them every day. One of them, admittedly it’s minor given the other challenges facing the planet, occurs when national currencies are ...

I’m visiting my parents on Cape Cod this month. My father recently turned 90, and my mother decided to open the long-buried safe where my father kept his coin collection. This offered a brief moment ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

For the past century, one of the most valuable collections of coins ever assembled has been hidden away in Denmark, its location known only to a handful of designated stewards. The situation was ...

On Jan. 1, the euro becomes the standard currency of a dozen European countries from Ireland to Italy. Billions of coins in circulation in those countries will no longer be accepted anywhere but ...