A Kazakh-born cosmonaut carried a 2014 copper-nickel 50-tenge coin on a 2015 space mission and that coin is now in a Kazakhstan museum for exhibit, thanks to a collector's intervention.

Jeff and Larry welcome back original podcast host Chris Bulfinch, who re-joins the Coin World staff. This week’s topics include auction buys, recent articles and getting caught up with what’s been going on with Chris.

The nation's first African American woman to serve as a federal judge could be the posthumous recipient of a congressional gold medal if a proposed Senate bill is passed.

A 32-gun frigate of the British Royal Navy that served in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars now appears on a dollar coin in a Ship series from Pobjoy Mint.

With an emphasis on diversity, an advisory council narrowed the choices among potential subjects for Canada's next $5 note to eight candidates, from which the minister of finance will chose one.

Ventris C. Gibson, currently acting Mint director and now nominated to a full five-year term as the 40th director of the Mint, has an opportunity to repair relationships with Mint customers.

Top quality Morgan dollars to be offered in an upcoming Heritage auction in Dallas will be available for viewing as part of the Feb. 15 to 19 Long Beach Expo in California.

A 2022 3-ounce silver coin issued by Barbados includes an imbedded genuine chondrite meteorite and is uniquely shaped to offer great appeal, with a limited mintage of only 999 pieces.

More than 3,000 pieces of deaccessioned Confederate currency, all issued on Feb. 17, 1864, will be sold by the South Carolina Archives & History Center on the anniversary of issue.

The Royal Canadian Mint offers a Proof 2022 .999 fine gold $100 coin to mark the centennial of the passing of inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who resided in Canada for many years.

The United States Mint continues its silver medal program honoring U.S. presidents with the latest offering, depicting James K. Polk, available on Feb. 14.

Rolls, bags and boxes of circulation-quality 2022 Native American dollars made at the Philadelphia and Denver Mints will become available from the U.S. Mint on Feb. 9.

The American Women quarter dollars program is getting noticed with the distribution of the circulating coins and the upcoming sale of a five-coin Proof set on the Mint schedule.

An unusual wrong planchet error, an 1866 Shield 2-cent coin on an Indian Head cent planchet, sold for $18,000 in Heritage's January online sale, as did a 1942 Walking Liberty half dollar on a quarter planchet.

Jeff returns from New York and recaps his visit to the Big Apple while Larry catches us up on what some of the past guests have been doing, including a playoff touchdown for our favorite football numismatist.

A PCGS MS-65 out-of-collar broadstrike 1906-D Coronet $10 eagle is a rare example of a gold coin error. It sold for $10,800 to a bidder in Heritage's January online sale of error coins.

A new 200-quetzal note issued in Guatemala, using cotton fiber, new security devices and a different method of printing, joins circulation with the previous issue of the country's highest value note.

The release of the 2022 Maya Angelou quarter dollar, the first in the American Women quarters program, is garnering a lot of attention in the general media, and that is a good thing for collecting.

An 1864 Shield, Large Motto 2-cent coin graded Mint State 65 brown by NGC, a great example of an obverse capped die error, sold for $45,600, leading sales in a Jan. 3 Heritage auction of error coins.

A joint circulating commemorative €2 coin program marking the 35th anniversary of the Erasmus Program is set for release July 1, with 19 nations each issuing their version of the commemorative coin.