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This past month, we have added over 300 new coin issues to NumisMaster. Updated includes 2025 coins from Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Peru. At the end of September 2025, we ran our metals updates, which resulted in price changes for gold and silver. This updated over 30,000 pricing fields and the melt prices of each coin on the website that consists these metals. While the values for gold and silver bullion-based coins were being revised, we continued working on some special projects that were inspired by the observations of our subscribers. Mexican prices were also updated for 20th-century dated coins (read Jeff Starck’s column “Starck Reality” in the October 2025 issue for more). If you have a question or comment, please reach…

In the last month, we have added the American Eagle silver proof with the Navy privy mark and the next edition in the Comic Art series, this time featuring Batman. There are also a few coins that jumped quite a bit. The 2025-S proof silver eagle, which had just been released in the last report, jumped from over 3,500 to nearly 110,000 in the last month. With the edition of the Batman coin and medals, the Superman 1-ounce silver medal went from just under 15,000 to over 28,600. Despite many collectors’ reservations about the series, the Comic Art coins and medals are doing fairly well. With the holidays coming fast, these may be a good gift option for a young collector or a young future collector in your life. With…

Silver coins of 1853–1855 with arrows and rays have long fascinated numismatists, but in the early days of collecting, this was not true. These coins were so common in the late 1850s that few people thought of saving high-grade specimens for posterity. At the present time, we tend to think that the arrows and rays coinage was just something that happened on the spur of the moment, but in reality, a long historical process was involved. The story begins in April 1792 when the first mint law was signed by President George Washington. A system was established by which gold and silver coins were of equal importance; the ratio was fixed at 1 to 15, meaning that one ounce of gold was worth 15 ounces of silver. This system is…

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We have been keeping an eye on the price of gold for all of 2025, simply because the numbers seem to be bouncing around more rapidly than a ping pong ball served up by Olympic players. Virtually all collectors would like to own some gold, but right now it seems like the cost is going to keep it firmly out of reach of those of us who really chase down bargains. So, what we are going to present here might seem like some goofy, insane, last-ditch effort to pull something out of what appears to be an impossible situation. But we are going to look at a few of the countries that produce 1/20th-ounce gold bullion coins for the world markets. Specifically, we’re going to glance at a couple that…

With the supply of silver dollars low in the early 1960s, the casinos in Nevada turned to dollar-sized tokens. Laurence Griffin’s article, “Cartwheels…Nevada Style,” in the June 1966 issue of Coins showed many examples of these silver dollar substitutes. “In the early part of 1963, Nevada casino operators suddenly realized that they were facing a crisis,” Griffin wrote. “The supply of silver dollars had shrunk drastically. The shortage was threatening to wipe out one of Nevada’s biggest moneymakers, the dollar slot machine.” The Feb. 21, 1964, issue of the Las Vegas Review-Journal recorded under the headline, “Cartwheels Disappearing,” that coin collectors were to blame. “Nevada’s colorful, jangling silver dollars appear to be headed for oblivion, along with the one-dollar slot machines, because of coin collectors…,” the Review-Journal charged. “Blame for…

Nickels receive little coverage in the numismatic press, and you’re not likely to see large gatherings of Jefferson nickel collectors at coin conventions or hear of new record prices for nickel dates at auctions. Since the Jefferson nickel was introduced, there have been some glorious moments. The 1950-D was popular in the 1950s, but it reached its top price and plateaued. An uncirculated 1950-D was $6 in the 1960s, and an MS-60 sits at $6.50 today. An uncirculated roll was $250-$300 in the 1960s and $280 today. Over the years, a few dates have done a bit better, especially in top grades. The 1939-D has slowly moved to $60 in MS-65, and the 1939-S is $30 in that grade. In the late 1970s, a few Jefferson nickels moved in price.…

The story of the Benjamin Franklin half dollar began in France with two men: American statesman Benjamin Franklin and French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. If Franklin did not travel to Paris in 1776 to enlist French support for the American War of Independence, then the Ben Franklin half dollar would not exist in the form it does today. That is because when he was in Paris, renowned sculptor Houdon crafted the bust of the elder statesman. That iconic bust was the model for the Franklin half dollar (1948-1963), as well as other imagery, including medals. Mint Director Ross and Franklin Over the years, Franklin’s image was ubiquitous. Writes Roger W. Burdette, “Notable public figures are frequently remembered on the anniversary of their birth and death in medallic form, either on coins,…

The spot price of silver has finally set a new record, surpassing the previous high set in early 1980 when the Hunt brothers (Nelson and William Herbert Hunt) attempted unsuccessfully to corner the silver market. Gold and platinum continue to soar in price as well. Is fiat money about to die? The rally in gold, silver, and platinum suggests specie is back—with a vengeance. How much unbacked fiat cash can central banks continue to print, followed by fiat electronic voodoo, including crypto money? Is the price of gold irrational? Does the increasing spot price of the metal represent the need for tangible security against a non-tangible economy in which the pace of the growth of debt is outpacing the ability to pay even the interest on that debt? Senior Fellow…