I’ve rolled coins and hunted treasure for years, but nothing compares to cracking open that box of half dollars brimming with toned beauties. Dates from 1971 […]

My Brush with Coin Confusion I was flipping through a coin dealer’s table recently when I spotted what looked like a rare 1958 Philadelphia doubled die […]

I recently found a stash of old pennies—about $30 face value—dating from 1940 to 1975. Since I’ve loved wheat pennies since I was a kid, I […]

As a coin collector who also loves tinkering with tech, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of automating how we sort coins by date and […]

My Unexpected Laundromat Find I recently fed cash into a laundromat change machine and got a surprise—a 2015 S Blue Ridge Parkway quarter staring back at […]

I was cleaning out my truck door recently—still tossing loose change in there after years of guiding fishing trips in retirement—when a simple coin count turned […]

Tracking down paper rolls for half-dollar coins has become a personal obsession of mine, and boy, has it opened my eyes to the quirks of our […]

You know that feeling when you’re just going through the motions of a chore and suddenly—bam!—a little piece of history lands in your palm? That happened […]

I just scored my first W quarter of the year – talk about a rush! Sure, it’s seen some pocket time, but that “W” mintmark still […]