Jeff and Larry branch out to world topics, including the upcoming US-Mexican Numismatics convention with World Numismatics’ Cory Frampton.

In the first offering from a major collection of medals by Victor David Brenner, an example of his 1895 bronze Society of the Cincinnati medal sold for $5,400, well above its estimate, to the society's museum.

An 1815/2 Capped Bust half dollar, discovered stashed in a tobacco tin under a staircase in a British home and now graded PCGS MS-63 sold in Heritage's Oct. 7 Premier Session in Dallas for $39,600.

For customers of the numismatic products of the U.S. Mint, 2021 had its highs and lows, with the sales of stunningly popular coins pleasing some and alienating others. What is in store for 2022?

To gauge customer interest, the U.S. Mint catalog lists the 1-ounce silver Air Force and Coast Guard medals for 2022 with a Remind Me button, but no mintage, sale date or price.

The limited-edition four-coin Reverse Proof 2021 American Innovation $1 Coin set representing New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York and Virginia is expected to go on sale on Nov. 8.

U.S. Mint anti-counterfeiting efforts include minting changes, with obvious and not obvious results, and a lab to verify that masses of metal presented as mutilated coins actually are U.S. coins.

The unveiling of the 2022 American Women quarter dollars' designs and the sale of four Canadian counterstamped silver dollars topped the attention for the week.

A 1976-D Washington quarter dollar and a 1976-D Kennedy half dollar, each with an obverse die cap error, were popular attractions in the Aug. 19 sale offerings by Stack's Bowers Galleries.

Jeff and Larry explore the importance of design, including the new designs planned for 2022 coins.

An 1855 Coronet gold $2.50 quarter eagle provided a rare glimpse at a gold coin with an error as the broadstruck coin brought $26,400 in Stack's Bowers Galleries' Aug. 19 sale.

A collection of Proof and Mint State Seated Liberty half dollars from the Boylston Collection amassed over a 20-year period is in Legend's Regency 48 sale in San Diego Oct. 27 and 28.

Signs indicate that the numismatic community is edging back to normal, or at least a new normal. Whether it will ever return to the pre-pandemic era is unclear, though that may be a good thing.

Registration is now open and early reservations are encouraged for rooms at the host site of the 2022 National Money Show, to be held March 10-12 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.

Ranked within the top 30 of the greatest U.S. error coins, a deep obverse die cap on an 1847 Braided Hair cent, graded MS-63 brown, sold for $28,800 in a Stack's Bowers Galleries auction.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appointed numismatist and collector Dr. Harcourt Fuller, a Georgia State University professor, to a position on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.

The U.S. Mint’s inventory of 50,000 Limited Edition 2021 Silver Proof Set — American Eagle Collection products neared depletion in nine hours on the first day of sales Oct. 1.

In 2022, the Mint begins the American Women Quarters Program, and the year's Treasury-approved reverses, featuring accomplishments and contributions of five American women, are revealed.

Designs approved by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for the 2022 American Innovation dollars for Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee were revealed.

The resignation of Mint Director David J. Ryder continues to interest readers, who also found their curiosity piqued by a high-graded U.S. cent and a Pobjoy Mint homage to the Morgan and Peace dollar designs.