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.

In less than a year, several denominations of paper bank notes in Trinidad and Tobago will be demonetized because the changeover to polymer notes for those denominations is completed.

A bronze drachm dated RY 8 (A.D. 144 to 145) minted in Alexandria, Egypt, under Antoninus Pius featuring a zodiac wheel and graded Extremely Fine by CNG sold for $43,200 in May.

A 1997 Proof gold £5 coin tribute to Princess Diana brought more than three times its estimate at a Dix Noonan Webb auction in London, realizing £6,200 on June 2.

A final environmental impact statement for a planned new BEP currency production facility in suburban Maryland is in the hands of the Treasury, which must now decide whether to move ahead.

The American Eagle 2021 One-Tenth Ounce Gold Two-Coin Set Designer Edition, featuring one coin apiece of the year's designs, will be limited to one order per household when sales begin July 29.

Wilma Mankiller, Adelina Otero-Warren and Anna May Wong join Dr. Sally Ride and Maya Angelou as subjects to be featured on the five 2022 American Women quarter dollars.

Announcement of delays for future 2021 Morgan and Peace dollar sales and the upcoming sale of Chris Dempsey's Hobo nickel collection attracted reader attention.

Valuable varieties and error coins remain to be found in circulation, and popular book's new edition offers suggestions for alert observers to spot treasures before they get spent at face value.

A privately struck "peace medal" to strengthen relations for the fur trade with indigenous populations of North America in the 1830s, one of seven traced and the second in private hands, sold for $144,000.

The high-profile sale of a numismatic rarity is drawing attention to coin collecting, and a new program can assist collectors in determining authenticity, value and connection through Coin World+.

The only 1933 $20 gold double eagle legal to own sold in just five minutes June 8 in a Sotheby's auction that realized $18,872,250, establishing a record for any coin sold at auction.

The only 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle authorized for private ownership realized $18,872,250 in a three-lot auction conducted by Sotheby's in New York on June 8.

A 1915 octagonal Panama-Pacific International Exposition $50 obverse and reverse hubs trial on a large, round copper planchet was a featured pattern offered in April from the Bob R. Simpson Collection.

A 1714-J Royal silver 8-real cob minted in Mexico City and rescued from the 1715 Plate Fleet wreck, and a .927 fine gold bar of Colombia in the wreck of the Atocha led Sedwick auction to a sales record.

A Bank of England £5 bank note originally presented to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957, bearing the low serial number A01 000003, was the top selling note in a May Dix Noonan Webb auction.

Jeff and Larry discuss the impending sale of the legal-to-own 1933 Saint Gaudens double eagle and find more shipwreck related items in the news of numismatic events.