Designs for a congressional gold medal collectively recognizing women who stepped up to join the U.S. manufacturing workforce during WWII, keeping the factories running, were reviewed by the CFA Sept. 15.

The Commission of Fine Arts approved a reverse design for the 2024 American Innovation dollar honoring Maine and conditionally approved a design for the Missouri coin, with suggestions.

Dealers in the Authorized Bulk Purchase Program will get first chance to buy more than half of the limited-edition Reverse Proof 2022-W American Eagle palladium $25 coins, which go on sale Sept. 29.

Reflecting current secondary market prices, American Eagle silver dollar values in the "Precious Metals and Bullion Coins" pricing chart, found weekly in the "Coin World" print and digital editions, are updated.

After an initial auction in August of early Massachusetts silver coins from the collection of author Christopher J. Salmon ("The Silver Coins of Massachusetts"), Heritage continues its offerings in October.

Former U.S. Mint chief engraver John Mercanti's popular "American Silver Eagles" book is available in a revised edition with additional pages of historical commentary and an image gallery of unused designs.

Apparently enough Kennedy half dollars are available for circulation, and the U.S. Mint has suspended production of the coin to focus more attention on other products.

Heritage Auctions will be selling the first part of the Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection during the Long Beach Expo, with activities such as grading, seminars and a dealers bourse also among attractions.

The winners of the Lawrence J. Gentile Sr. Award and seven recipients of the Glenn Smedley Memorial Award were recognized by the ANA during ceremonies at the World's Fair of Money

While supplies last or until the end of September, the U.S. Mint is offering a 40% discount on selected 2021 products that include Silver Proof sets, Proof sets and Uncirculated Coin sets.

The Dahlonega Mint only issued the Indian Head gold $3 coin in 1854, and an example of the issue from the John O. Sykes Family Collection of Gold Coins brought $528,000 in a recent sale.

Officials of the Mint and several museums meet Sept. 17 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to present the historic impact of Nina Otero-Warren's work; she is featured on 2022's fourth American Women quarter dollar.

One of the best examples of an 1839-D Classic Head gold $2.50 quarter eagle, from Georgia's Dahlonega Mint, brought $168,000 in a Stack's Bowers Galleries August 2022 sale.

Minting of the first three issues of 2022 American Women quarter dollars is finished and the U.S. Mint reports more than 1.7 billion of the coins were manufactured, among other production figures.

Finally, we have an answer as to what true “first strikes” of a popular United States Mint product would bring at auction if certified by the Mint as being the first of their kind.

2021 American Eagle silver and gold bullion coins from the last production of Reverse of 1986 coins and the first of the Reverse of 2021 issues were sold in a special Stack's Bowers Galleries auction.

A new date is scheduled for launching sales of the limited-edition Reverse Proof 2022-W American Eagle palladium coin: it will now be available from the U.S. Mint beginning Sept. 29.

The theft of waffle-canceled Kennedy half dollars from the Denver Mint as an inside job continues to hold high interest, as do aspects of the Mint's future production plans.

The United States Mint has suspended 2022 production of Kennedy half dollars at its Philadelphia and Denver facilities, to focus on minting more of the smaller coinage for circulation.

The American Numismatic Association presented their literary awards during the 2022 World's Fair of Money with David Schenkman picking up top honors in two categories.