Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas introduces legislation in the 117th Congress calling for a congressional gold medal for the 36th president, Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson, a third attempt for the recognition.

After an absence since 2013, the PNG Day will be held in conjunction with the Central States Numismatic Society convention in April at the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg.

The Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d’Art congress and exhibition planned for Tokyo, postponed from its original October 2020 date, is reset for December 2021.

After a successful online event in August of 2020, organizers are collecting presenters for another virtual installment of the three-day Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium, set for March 20 through 21.

Size and color can be the tipoff that a coin was struck erroneously on an incorrect planchet, and these pieces are often highly desirable because the error is easily understood.

A late January Ira and Larry Goldberg auction offers a newly discovered 1857-O gold $20 double eagle that emerged from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is now graded PCGS MS-61 prooflike, certified by CAC.

Jeff and Larry recount the weekend experiences of getting back to buying coins in person and attending events. There’s a dive back to 1973, the Carson City GSA sale, a tribute to Alex Trebek and outrage expressed in the letters.

Coins of the English Civil War are historic and collectible, with one interesting example an AU-58 1645 silver shilling of Carlisle, England, in the Feb. 2 and 3 Ira & Larry Goldberg Pre-Long Beach auction.

Legislation seeks to supplement the law that created a congressional gold medal for Merchant Mariners of WWII, to fund purchase and distribution of bronze duplicates for eligible WWII service personnel.

2021 gold $100 and silver $1 coins in the Australia at Night series for Niue use selective plating and finishing techniques to feature the wombat, a native marsupial that is critically endangered.

A Spink auction on behalf of the Bank of England raised $330,000 for donation to two charities, Pancreatic Cancer UK and YoungMinds, with a sheet of 45 £20 notes drawing the highest bid, £15,000.

The incredible discovery of a previously unreported mule, bearing the obverse of a Sacagawea dollar and reverse of a Presidential dollar, should electrify the hobby and start a search for more.

The Martin Van Buren Presidential silver medal, celebrating the 8th U.S. President, is next in that U.S. Mint series, available beginning Feb. 1 priced at $65.

A group monitoring organized crime in Latin America, Insight Crime says currency counterfeiting activity is increasing in Brazil, where more fake money was seized by July 2020 than in all of 2019.

During a pandemic affecting nearly aspect of life, buying and selling rare coins and paper money seemed undeterred, as a recap of 2020 reveals a strong collectibles market.

To commemorate the 25th year of neutrality, Turkmenistan's Central Bank offers new bank notes in six different denominations featuring a multi-colored logo to mark the occasion.

With the signing of legislation allowing creation of silver dollars marking the centennial of the transition from Morgan to Peace designs, members of two panels will meet to review the designs.

No quarter dollars in 2021 will bear the W Mint mark of the West Point Mint; the 2019 and 2020 coins mark the extent of the short-term program designed to stimulate collector interest.

The comprehensive law legislates quarter dollar programs through 2030 and overall coinage redesign for 2026, and authorizes designing and striking U.S. Olympic medals.

The Bank of Cabo Verde issued its new 200-escudo note in a cotton fiber material, replacing the only polymer denomination, though the two will appear similar and co-circulate.