The U.S. Mint's first-day sales of 2017 American Eagle platinum bullion coins matched the bureau’s entire 2016 allocation.

The petition wants to give the same currency status to gold and silver that is currently given to paper U.S. dollars and circulating coins.

As part of the RCM’s celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary, it has added a Canada 150 privy mark to a version of its Maple Leaf silver bullion coin.

McConaughey plays the offbeat head of a flailing Nevada mining company who enlists a legendary geologist to help him strike gold. Literally.

U.S. Mint officials did not disclose how many coins will be made available initially, but they did set the date for authorized purchasers to begin ordering.

Also this week, we got our first look at an actual 2017 American Liberty gold coin, and gold ingots recovered from the SS Central America were sold at auction.

Prince, the legendary musician who died in April, was apparently quite a collector of gold bars, and his exact physical gold holdings were recently revealed.

The Mint’s Jan. 9 sales for the 2017 American Eagle silver bullion coin reached 3,747,500 coins. How did that compare to first-day sales in 2016?

The Inaugural Trump Dollar marks the Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States.

Huge demand led to record-setting year-end totals in 2014 and 2015, but strong monthly totals in early 2016 did not continue in the second half of the year.

The Mint finished 2016 American Eagle gold bullion sales with its slowest month of the year, but that didn't prevent the 2016 total from being a five-year high.