We often take for granted the people we meet in the hobby. The passing of my good friend John Burns has forced me to reflect.

Heritage Auctions’ June 4 to 8 auctions held during theLong Beach Expo brought more than $16 million.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries will market what it calls "the most valuable collection of federal American coins ever formed": the Pogue family collection.

The blank surface of uniface pattern test strikes can reflect the presence of a metal block, an underlying planchet, or a smooth, flat-faced die.

An extremely rare Branch Mint Proof 1876-CC Seated Liberty dime is crossing the auction block July 17 after being off the market the past four years.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries' June 27 auction in Baltimore of U.S. coins comprises a wide range from Colonials through double eagles.

The U.S. Mint is taking precautions to reduce the possibility of mule error coins with the production of the 2014 Kennedy, 50th Anniversary half dollars.

The former director received the coins sold by Ira & Larry Goldberg Auctioneers in the 1960s as a gesture of thanks.

Authorized purchasers may now order American Eagle silver bullion coins without limit after ordering allocations were lifted June 2.

Discoveries of coins on archaeological sites in Israel, Greece and England show the practice of burying coins to protect from theft has gone on for millennia.

ANA's Board of Governors on June 10 heard about a new college scholarship, appointed a new treasurer, and accepted a bid for a new roof for the Money Museum.

Heritage Auctions’ June 4 to 8 auctions held during the Long Beach Expo brought more than $16 million

In the summer 2014 issue of Curry’s Chronicle, the journal of the Carson City Coin Collectors of America, writers address the coins and history of the Mint.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy half dollar in 2014, the United States Mint will be offering seven special, different, Kennedy half dollar coins.

A canceled 1870-CC Seated Liberty half dollar reverse die (once a doorstop) and an 1870-CC coin the die struck before cancellation will be on display Aug. 5-9.

Top 14 coins from Saddle Ridge hoard removed from Amazon.com.

Many special coins were offered at auction in May from the Eric P. Newman Collection of early American coins.

The secret to selecting the best U.S. coins is to look for one well struck with "full details."

A great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover will speak during a June 19 ceremony in West Branch, Iowa, for the 2014 Herbert Hoover Presidential dollar.

A launch ceremony for the Arches quarter took place Friday morning at the Utah park.

Amazon listed 361 still-available lots of the Saddle Ridge gold coins on June 9, including the $2.75 million collection of the 14 finest pieces.

1886 $2 silver certificate will be among the notes offered by Heritage Auctions during its Sept. 3 to 8 Long Beach Expo Currency Signature Auction.

The U.S. palladium American Eagle bullion coin program is not dead but not on the U.S. Mint's radar.

The most recent Bonhams auction in Los Angeles on June 2 brought nearly $1.2 million with nearly 90 percent of the 368 lots finding buyers.

1982 legislation was proposed as a "logical" compromise to produce the first U.S. Olympic coins.