Two Middlesboro Elementary School fourth-grade students take the helm at the launch ceremony for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park quarter.

Sales open at noon Eastern Time April 7 by the United States Mint for the Uncirculated 2016-W American Eagle 1-ounce gold $50 coin.

The American Eagle bullion program expanded in 1997 to include platinum bullion coins, and perfect examples of that date are rare.

Emancipation Hall is reserved April 13 for presentation of a congressional gold medal honoring members of the 65th Infantry Regiment.

The editor of SPLOID raised an interesting point in a recent online post. How can vending machines tell the difference between real coins and fake coins?

The American Eagle bullion program started in 1986 with the production of gold and silver coins and in 1997 expanded to include platinum bullion coins.

The public will gets its first glimpse of the 2016 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park quarter dollar when the issue debuts June 8 in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.

As prices for early United States copper coins continue to increase, half cents and large cents from the 1790s are becoming targets for counterfeiters.

The American Eagle bullion program started in 1986 with the production of gold and silver coins, and perfect examples from the early years are in demand.

In 2004, veteran coin dealer Don Wenger found a 1943 Lincoln bronze cent while sorting Wheat cents. It matches a certified coin, but ....

In 1857 and 1858 there was a rush of sentiment and nostalgia when the old copper cent, familiar since childhood, was discontinued.

President George H.W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Jesse Owens' widow, Ruth, on March 28, 1990.

The Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists will bring the John Burns Memorial Reference Library to the Central States Numismatic Society show in April.

The United States Mint will accept orders for the Proof 2016 American Buffalo 1-ounce gold coin (product code 16EL) starting March 31 at noon Eastern Time.

An iconic image of the American World War II experience was taken Feb. 23, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, which ended with an American victory March 26, 1945.

Housed on the first floor of the United States Mint at San Francisco, a line of yellow robots move with precision over a conveyor belt.

When the Commission of Fine Arts considered Boys Town commemorative images, it quickly endorsed a design rejected by the CCAC.

Members of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee secured two long-sought goals at their March 15 meeting.

Among the week's top stories on CoinWorld.com were posts about the Mint's recovery of the aluminum 1974-D cent, and damaged bullion coins getting low grades.

Mint officials took possession of the only known 1974-D Lincoln aluminum cent March 17 in San Diego and plan to display it.

Today, even political buttons have largely faded from sight, relegating I LIKE IKE and ALL THE WAY WITH JFK buttons to a seemingly dim past.

Finds this month were numerous and varied. Each discovery represents a type of coin that should not be found in rolls, yet they turned up anyway

The 1982 George Washington 250th Birth Anniversary half dollar is a coin of many “firsts.”

Civil Rights activist and congressional gold medal recipient Dorothy Height was born March 24, 1912.

Patrick Henry's famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech on March 23, 1775, is honored on a medal issued for the American Bicentennial in 1976.