Mushy details on coins can have many causes, and they sometimes can be confused with each other.

The U.S. Marshals Service featured prominently in the coin collecting community the week of Jan. 25, making arrests and being the focus of a coin program.

Silver from ceremonial implements recovered from the April 5, 1864, fire of the Boston Masonic Lodge, was used to strike Seated Liberty half dollars.

The only known Enhanced Uncirculated 2014-D Native American, Missing Edge Lettering dollar from a 2014 American $1 Coin and Currency Set has gone to auction.

Members of the CCAC enthusiastically called for a number of major changes to the U.S. Mint’s proposed High Relief gold coin and silver medal program.

The two different styles of edge reeding found on 2015 American Eagle tenth-ounce gold bullion coins are variants, not errors.

A 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar that reportedly had been kept as a talisman from D-Day to Berlin realized $437,100 in Spink's Jan. 27 auction in New York.

The Feb. 2 segment of "Strange Inheritance," a new series broadcast on the Fox Business Network, will focus on the George Walton 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin.

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Heritage’s U.S. coin auctions at the Florida United Numismatists show in Orlando took place between Jan. 7 and 12.

The Wells Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco will reopen as soon as possible following a Jan. 27 robbery of gold nuggets.

The United States Mint has released images of the 2015 March of Dimes silver dollar, in its second commemorative coin program for the year.

Philadelphia publisher and collector Andrew Madsen Smith produced a 107-page pocketbook-size volume that covered the breadth of American coins in 1881.

Heritage’s U.S. coin auctions at the Florida United Numismatists show in Orlando took place between Jan. 7 and 12.

Three of the famous U.S. silver coins issued in 1916 will come back next year in the form of pure gold coins under a plan being considered by the U.S. Mint.

A silver marksmanship badge awarded to N.B. Irwin, of “Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves,” during the Civil War crosses the auction block Feb. 5 in New York.

The 1866-S Coronet, No Motto gold double eagle is believed to exist by no more than 200 examples from among 120,000 coins struck at the San Francisco Mint.

A new firm has begun identifying what it calls “Grade Enhancements” on certified modern coins, adding a sticker to the slabs of coins meeting certain criteria.

Heritage’s U.S. coin auctions at the FUN show in Orlando featured more than 8,000 lots that totaled more than $70 million.

Pricing changes for certain 2015-dated numismatic products from the United States Mint have been announced.

Former Coin World Editor Margo Russell, 95, died Jan. 26 in Sidney, Ohio.

One of only five 1920 Wilson so-called dollar medals struck in gold to celebrate the opening of the Manila Mint is coming to auction Feb. 5.

The Commission of Fine Arts recommends two significant changes to the U.S. Mint's 2015 High Relief gold coin.

Lessons the U.S. Mint's manufacturing staff learned in the production of the 2014 National Baseball Hall of Fame coins to be detailed Jan. 29 in Berlin.