The San Francisco Museum and Historical Society is leaving the Old Mint, but its president hopes it won’t be a permanent move.

Engraved tokens made by convicts condemned to Australia are affordable highlights of Dix Noonan Webb's May 13 auction.

Striking error coins look unusual and are the result of something going wrong during the minting process.

Plenty of info here this morning from Coin World

The March 29 passing of Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, 95, at a Nashville nursing home leaves the number of surviving Doolittle Tokyo Raiders to just two.

Big savings await collectors who register for the ANA seminar early

As part of our continued conversation with our readers, we like to ask our Facebook fans to share about the numismatic acquisitions they've made recently.

Federal prosecutors say several U.S.-based metal recyclers conspired in an elaborate scheme to bilk the U.S. Mint out of more than $5.4 million.

J.H. Cline is gone, but he is certainly not forgotten among the crowd of coin collectors and dealers at the Whitman Baltimore Expo.

An official wrote that the city terminated the lease with the historical society, effective immediately, due to “lack of progress” on the restoration project.

A 1792 Birch cent brought $1,175,000 at Stack’s Bowers Galleries March 26 auction of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation’s collection at the Whitman Baltimore Expo.

What might have been but wasn’t: 1983 and 1984 Olympics commemoratives distributed solely by the Occidental Petroleum Co.

A lot happening this week, keep it here at for the latest

Sometimes in this column I talk about a fantastic auction result and explain why a coin is so desirable, why it went for so much money.

Numismatists tend to prize coins that are pristine and that are in as close to perfect condition as they possibly can be.

Coin dealer applications welcomed for bourse of mainly stamp-related event, held in newly renovated Forest View Educational Center in Arlington Heights, Ill.

An October 1835 skirmish considered the "Lexington of Texas" is commemorated on bronze and silver versions of 2015's TNA convention medal, from Frank Galindo.

The U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) will share booths #1409/1415 at the Whitman Baltimore Expo March 26 to 29.

In 1883, the Kingdom of Hawaii authorized the production of a set of silver coins, intended to ease the coin shortage on the islands.

The City of San Francisco is kicking the nonprofit San Francisco Museum and Historical Society out of the Old Mint.

Silver jewelry sales in the United States rose in 2014 according to an online survey fielded by “National Jeweler” magazine.

The years that Margo Russell served as editor of Coin World — from 1961 until her 1985 retirement — were some of the most evolutionary in our hobby.

Congressional leaders presented a congressional gold medal March 24 to golfer Jack Nicklaus.

The American Numismatic Association Road Show will make its next stop at the Georgia Numismatic Association 51st Coin and Currency Show, April 17 to 19.

Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Congressional Gold Medal Presentation Ceremony April 18.