The fourth issue in Pobjoy Mint's 2021 50-penny Sea Creatures series spotlights an interesting tropical fish native to the Indian Ocean, which changes color or even gender as it ages.

A 1927 memo from his staff recommended all of the portraits that Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon chose for the new small-size notes issued in 1929, although he switched a couple.

The annual Assay Commission was canceled after 1980 as unnecessary. The restoration of production of precious metals U.S. coins is grounds for the restoration of this lost tradition.

With the return of the ANA World's Fair of Money in August, Heritage Auctions and Stack's Bowers Galleries are putting together the lots that will be showcased at the Chicago area event.

Uzbekistan has finished the project of a new note series with the 2,000- and 20,000-som notes that feature the "Great Silk Road" and some of the country's ancient historical attractions.

A 1736 silver medal associated with a lottery set up to help pay for creation of a giant silver wine cooler is among lots in a July Dix Noonan Webb auction in London.

The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee reviewed and recommended designs for the three-coin commemorative program in 2022 recognizing the centennial of the Negro Baseball League.

H.R. 3325, proposed to award gold medals to the agencies involved in protecting the U.S. Capitol from the breach of protestors on Jan. 6, 2021, has passed the House of Representatives.

The design of a silver collector coin from Latvia, by a couple as their first foray into coin design, celebrates marriage with the mutual "yes" on both sides, as required for a marriage.

An anonymous buyer paid $104, 625 for a 1792 Flowing Hair half disme graded Fair 2 that gained national attention after it was found in a dealer's junk box in Washington a few months ago.

The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee spent two days reviewing designs, including those for three of the 2022 American Women quarter dollars and a gold medal for Merrill's Marauders.

A Proof 2021-S American Eagle, Reverse of 2021 silver dollar, minted at the San Francisco Mint, becomes available for sale from the U.S. Mint Aug. 16, but ordering details are lacking.

After a four-month delay, the silver medal honoring the United States Air Force will become available on June 22, the 2.5-ounce silver medal offered for $160.

Sale of the Weitzman-owned 1933 gold double eagle drew headlines around the world and our readers were at the epicenter of interested parties, while a future gold offering also held high interest.

Jeff and Larry talk to author Rob Kravitz about postage currency while wondering aloud about the new 1933 double eagle owner (not us).

A bronze Roman Provincial coin struck circa A.D. 43 or 44 at a mint in Judaea under King Agrippa I offers a complex pictorial narrative of a treaty of friendship and alliance between leaders.

A battle in Vietnam, among the last in the conflict to involve Australian soldiers, is the subject of the collector-only issue of an Uncirculated copper-nickel 50-cent coin from the Royal Australian Mint.

Four faces of the family of Septimus Severus grace a gold aureus struck around A.D. 202 in Rome, which sold for $36,000 in a Classical Numismatic Group auction in May.

A Washington newspaper calls out the continuing delay in development for release of a re-designed $20 Federal Reserve note to feature Harriet Tubman in place of the current Andrew Jackson image.

The sale of the sole 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle authorized for private ownership for a price topping $18.8 million is evidence that the top of the coin market remains strong.