COINage, a monthly American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 special-interest magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

, targets numismatists

Numismatics

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects. While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the...

 and coin

Coin

A coin is a piece of hard material that is standardized in weight, is produced in large quantities in order to facilitate trade, and primarily can be used as a legal tender token for commerce in the designated country, region, or territory....

 investors

Investment

Investment has different meanings in finance and economics. Finance investment is putting money into something with the expectation of gain, that upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security for the principal amount, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time...

. The magazine was originally published on a quarterly basis by Behn-Miller Publications, Inc., under the joint ownership of Gordon Behn and COINage editorial director James L. Miller. In 1965, the magazine moved to a bimonthly publishing schedule, and has been published monthly since 1966. Behn retired in 1982, making Miller the sole publisher of COINage, as well as sole owner of the renamed Miller Magazines, Inc.

COINage focuses primarily on American coins, although articles on paper money

Banknote

A banknote is a kind of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender. In addition to coins, banknotes make up the cash or bearer forms of all modern fiat money...

and non-American coins have appeared. Some of the topics covered by the magazine include:

• coin investing trends
• coin history
• upcoming coins
• collecting advice
• biographies
• current news

A monthly feature entitled "Coin Capsule" features information on coins from a specific year, interspersed with world history from that year.

Not wanting to stick with any particular topics, the magazine does not have any specific editorial calendar.