The U.S. Mint will open sales at noon Eastern Time March 17 for Proof 2016-W American Eagle gold coins.

I clean out houses and found this 1776-dated coin and wanted to know what it was. Is it real or fake? Is it worth anything?

Trustee Q. David Bowers wants to find ways to increase public attendance to places with names like "New Hampshire Historical Society."

The Uncirculated 2016-P Shawnee National Forest 5-ounce silver quarter dollar goes on sale from the U.S. Mint at noon Eastern Time Feb. 25.

Also this week, a Coin World senior editor reports more interesting finds in circulation, and Q. David Bowers asks if today's grading standards are useful.

Metallurgical testing conducted by Professional Coin Grading Service on two 1792 cent patterns has determined both to be virtually pure copper.

It almost didn’t seem worth it, just to pick up five $2 rolls of coins, but I ultimately made some really neat finds.

The 1913-S Indian Head, Bison on Plain 5-cent coin is one of the key dates to the series.

From 1938 to 2003, the U.S. Mint implemented a number of refinements, little tweaks and modifications to the Jefferson 5-cent coin.

Check your change, you might find a rare 1894-S Barber dime, because Granny Clampett spent one in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies.

The Selma Foot Soldiers, whose protests in 1965 helped lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act, received a congressional gold medal Feb. 24 on Capitol Hill.

An Hawaii Five-0 episode titled “The $100,000 Nickel” is probably the most famous television show with a coin theme.

Dennis the Menace, the early 1960s TV version of the comic strip, frequently had a coin theme. In one episode Dennis can be seen placing cents in a folder.

Though it wasn't quite on time, the Mark Twain commemorative silver dollars were released to solid demand in both Proof and Uncirculated finishes.

The European tour of a 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar valued at more than $10 million is off to a rousing start.

Officials at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Mo., are placing a bulk order for Mark Twain commemorative gold and silver coins.

The Commission of Fine Arts recommended designs Feb. 18 for the 2017 Effigy Mounds National Monument and Ellis Island National Monument quarter dollars.

2016-S copper-nickel clad and silver coins in the two five-coin America the Beautiful quarter dollar Proof sets will have packaging with corrected graphics.

A research study compared the S&P 500 stock index, gold and Hermes Birkin bags, a high-status and high-priced bag that’s coveted as a status symbol.

The 1915-S Panama-Pacific Exposition $50 piece drives the story told in the “Internal Affairs: Parolee” episode of Dragnet, but makes only a cameo appearance.

Feb. 24 sales begin at the U.S. Mint for 200-coin mixed bags and two-roll sets of circulation-quality 2016-P and 2016-D Kennedy half dollars.

The Tucson Coin Club will be holding a coin show on Sunday, March 20, 2016.

The Professional Numismatists Guild will provide a scholarship to a deserving young numismatist to attend the American Numismatic Association Summer Seminar.

A running gag involving a fictional mint error plays a major part in the “Mayberry on Record” episode (season 1, episode 19) of The Andy Griffith Show.

Tebben unlocks coin stories. He starts by remembering that the first paragraph of a story should be what you’d tell you mother as you came in the door.