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  2. Coin collecting - Wikipedia

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    A coin collection, featuring coins loose and in various storage mediums. Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors include beautiful, rare, and historically significant pieces. Collectors may be interested, for example, in complete sets of a particular design or ...

  3. Dollar coin (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A Morgan dollar coin. The dollar coin is a United States coin with a face value of one United States dollar. Dollar coins have been minted in the United States in gold, silver, and base metal versions. Dollar coins were first minted in the United States in 1794. While true gold dollars are no longer minted, the Sacagawea, Presidential, and ...

  4. Glossary of numismatics - Wikipedia

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    A homogeneous mixture of two or more chemical elements, where the resulting compound has metallic properties. Common coin alloys include cupro-nickel (copper and nickel) and bronze (copper and tin). altered date. A false date put on a coin to defraud collectors, usually to make it appear more valuable.

  5. Coins of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    These coins began circulating on February 15, 2007. Starting 2012, these coins have been minted only for collectible sets because of a large stockpile. The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was minted from 1979 to 1981 and 1999. The 1999 minting was in response to Treasury supplies of the dollar becoming depleted and the inability to accelerate the ...

  6. Morgan dollar - Wikipedia

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    Morgan dollar. The Morgan dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1878 to 1904, in 1921, and beginning again in 2021 as a collectible. It was the first standard silver dollar minted since the passage of the Coinage Act of 1873, which ended the free coining of silver and the production of the previous design, the Seated Liberty dollar.

  7. Coinage shapes - Wikipedia

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    Coinage shapes. The Tenpō Tsūhō, a Japanese coin from the 19th-century. Although the vast majority of coins are round, coins are made in a variety of other shapes, including squares, diamonds, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, decagons, and dodecagons. They have also been struck with scalloped (wavy) edges, and with holes in the middle.

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