September 2016 American Eagle silver bullion coin sales were less than half of September 2015's total. A sales-record three-peat appears a pipe dream.

The U.S. Mint reports cumulative sales through Oct. 3 of 29,500 of the 2016 Theodore Roosevelt National Park 5-ounce silver bullion quarter dollars.

The Royal Mint continues its annual Lunar Zodiac series of coins with 2017 Year of the Rooster issues in silver and gold.

Investment demand during 2016 is expected to expand, but that doesn't necessarily mean that bar and coin demand is up from 2015 levels.

A 1-ounce silver bullion coin honors the mythological Greek Pegasus. The British Virgin Islands’ Reverse Proof $1 coin has a mintage limit of 50,000 pieces.

We also profiled an ancient coin that depicts a structure that still stands and looked back at an unprecedented flood of error notes into circulation.

PCGS has graded and slabbed a 2014 American Eagle gold bullion coin that was struck on a planchet intended for the American Buffalo gold $50 bullion coin.

Don't have the time or patience to prospect for gold but still want the thrill of owning the hoped for result? An upcoming auction has some items for you.

Sales are underway for seven silver bullion coins and eight gold bullion coins, all marking 2017 as the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac calendar.

Through Sept. 13, sales for the first four 2016 America the Beautiful 5-ounce silver bullion coins topped 245,000 coins.

Also this week, the hobby continued to process the groundbreaking discovery of tooling meant for a possible 1964 Morgan dollar.

Former Coin World Editor Beth Deisher remembers a golden apple and the day the West Point Mint hosted a first strike ceremony for the $50 American Eagle.

The California find comes only a couple of weeks after a 145-ounce nugget unearthed in Australia made headlines.

A new report suggests that an increase in the price of platinum as the result of a potential South African miners' strike is possible. But for how long?

July was bad for the U.S. Mint's American Eagle silver bullion coin sales. August was worse. It was the slowest month in more than two-and-a-half years.

A-Mark Precious Metals Inc. has acquired a majority ownership stake in Indiana-based SilverTowne Mint.

The Mint made only 20,000 coins available for purchase when the coins first went on sale July 25 for the first time since 2014.

Work by ICTA led to limits on some of the most bur­densome requirements of the Minnesota Bullion Coin Dealer Law, but there's some confusion to clear up.

Other popular posts focused on the results of a survey on coin cleaning, the quick sell-out of a new U.S. Mint product, and a non-collector's amazing coin find.

An Australian man prospecting for gold with a metal detector has unearthed a 145-ounce gold nugget valued at $250,000 AUD ($190,282 in U.S. dollars).