Spectacular Proof coins will be offered in the Stack's Bowers Galleries Rarities Night auctions including an 1825/4/1 Capped Head gold $5 half eagle, one of three known.

Heritage offered a 1714 Gloucester shilling that proved collectors are quite interested in rarity and historical value when considering collection needs, with this example bringing $90,000.

New notes have been issued by the Central Bank of Iran with denominations of 10,000 and 20,000 rials to replace the previous 10 million and 20 million toman notes in circulation.

To mark the 150th anniversary of completion of Australias telegraph line and its first transmission, the Royal Australian Mint on Aug. 3 released a dollar coin targeted to collectors, not for circulation.

De La Rue and bank note paper supplier Portals terminated their contract with a payoff, freeing De La Rue from an obligation to purchase Portal's paper, but leaving Portals' paper mill "no longer viable."

Legislation signed by President Biden authorizes the Treasury secretary to direct the U.S. Mint to strike Proof and Uncirculated coins in 2024 to help maintain the National World War II Memorial.

Sales totals for the two 2021 commemorative coin programs are available but not finalized by the U.S. Mint and information on distribution of the surcharges collected is not yet revealed.

A young Florida collector's find of a cud error on several examples of a 2022 coin created plenty of interest, and readers also reacted to the the U.S. Mint advertisement of a free coin with purchase.

Only 7,500 Reverse Proof 2022-W American Eagle, High Relief palladium $25 coins will be issued, with sales to begin Sept. 8 at a price to be released closer to that date.

The 2022 American Innovation dollar representing Tennessee and the TVA will be offered by the U.S. Mint in bags and rolls beginning on Aug. 30 from production at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints.

The second work in a planned four-book series on circulating contemporary counterfeit U.S. coinage covers silver denominations from 3-cent coins to quarter dollars and is expected this fall.

Kanga and Roo appear on the Royal Mint's 2022 Winnie the Pooh and Friends 50-penny coins, eighth in a nine-design series by Daniel Thorne based on E. H. Shepard's 1926 illustrations of A. A. Milne’s stories.

Two relatively common but exceptionally well-preserved 1936 commemorative half dollars with green CAC stickers each brought $55,812.50 in Legend Rare Coin Auctions’ Regency 53 sale.

The 1-ounce .999 fine silver version of the Matte Finish U.S. Coast Guard medal is scheduled to be offered for sale by the U.S. Mint beginning at noon Eastern Time Sept. 26.

A 2024 three-coin commemorative program recognizing Harriet Tubman signed into law Aug. 3 by President Joe Biden is the first of two commemorative coin programs for the year.

On about 10,000 counterfeit Canadian Polar Bear $2 coins identified and seized following a recent investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the toes are the giveaway.

A new book on Operation Bernhard, a counterfeiting operation conducted by Nazi Germany during World War II, will become available in August detailing attempts to disrupt British economy.

Numismatic Guaranty Co. will host a coin grading competition at the 2022 American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, Illinois, with multiple prize levels.

A 1922 Grant Memorial, With Star half dollar in PCGS Mint State 67 sold for $55,812.50 in Legend Rare Coin Auctions' Regency 53 sale, an improvement on the $42,300 it realized in 2017.

H.R. 1057, recently passed in the House, seeks 2024 commemorative coins whose surcharges would help maintain and repair the existing National World War II Memorial and support educational programs.