Multi-ply plated steel and nickel-plated steel are not viable composition alternatives for the quarter dollar for security reasons.

Investors and collectors remain thirsty for silver American Eagle bullion coins a month after closing out 2015-dated coin sales.

New Mexico collector Tommy Bolack spent $42,300 Jan. 6 to add a “10 penny” nail to his collection of major U.S. coin errors.

The third installment of Stack’s Bowers Galleries and Sotheby’s auction of rare coins from the collection of Texas businessman D. Brent Pogue is set for Feb. 9.

Finest-known 1894-S Barber dime realizes nearly $2 million during Heritage's Platinum Night auction.

Jay Cline, who died in January 2015, was known for his devotion to the Standing Liberty quarter series and was acknowledged as an expert.

Heritage’s first U.S. Coins session, held on Jan. 6, featured impressive error coins that were led by a crazy undated Roosevelt dime that was struck on a nail.

The finest known 1894-S Barber dime topped Heritage’s Jan. 7 Platinum Night auction held during the Florida United Numismatists convention.

Editor Beth Deisher received a sneak preview of Elizabeth Jones' design for the 1986 gold $5 Statue of Liberty coin from U.S. Treasurer Katherine D. Ortega.

Simpson Collection's gorgeous toned Civil War era half dollar sold at a bargain Dec. 17, 2015, in Las Vegas at Legend's Regency Auction XV.

David T. Alexander reviews new book, 'Who’s Who among American Medallists. The Artists of Our Country’s Coins and Medals, 1652 to Date,' by D. Wayne Johnson.

PCGS Proof 65 red and brown, CAC, 1877 Indian Head cent at $6,500 fills in for regular issue series key.

The top lot in Legend’s Dec. 17 auction was this 1899 Coronet gold $5 half eagle graded Proof 68+ Deep Cameo by PCGS.

Reader finds two coins while searching through rolls of coins and is not sure if they are doubled dies or errors.

Theorist Albert Einstein is soon appearing on a U.S. coin, but it’s not being issued by the United States Mint.