Also this week, we wrote about a Washington quarter that sold for nearly $2,000, and whether the Mint's planned palladium bullion is coming at the right time.

The week-long juggernaut that is the ANA World’s Fair of Money is now over and the 2016 edition can be characterized as a modest success for the coin market.

Collectors will learn what designs will appear on the 2017 Boys Town Centennial $5 gold half eagle, silver dollar and copper-nickel-clad half dollar.

This unheralded 5-cent pattern was designed by Charles Barber, yet it doesn't raise a lot of chatter with collectors.

Error collectors new to the hobby quickly encounter coins with unexpected bumps in the field and design. Expert Mike Diamond explains the most common types.

This month I begin reviewing the results of the coin cleaning, toning and coating survey that appeared in my Feb. 29 column.

“One of the all-time classics of the entire American numismatic compendium," is how Scotsman Auction Co. described this Standing Liberty quarter.

The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the 2016 Ronald Reagan $1 Coin Cover on August 18 at noon Eastern Time.

The 2000-D Lincoln cent the reader found is likely a genuine Lincoln cent struck at the Denver Mint, but the extra design element was added elsewhere.

Most relatively affordable Philadelphia Mint gold coins of the late 18th and early 19th centuries have problems. Here's an example.

Also this week, a Roman coin hoard dug up in York, England, in 2014 was finally publicized, and a "technically perfect" 1989 silver Eagle sold at auction.

Classic collector coins dominated the Aug. 11 Rarities Night auction by Stack’s Bowers Galleries held during the ANA World’s Fair of Money in Anaheim, Calif.

The U.S. Mint's exhibit of the sole known example of a 1974-D Lincoln aluminum cent was a hit with collectors at the ANA World’s Fair of Money.

The author mastered the science of differentiating between real and counterfeit coins, but is there any science to coin grading? How is that subject mastered?

Heritage's Platinum Night auction held at the ANA World’s Fair of Money offered a single example of each of the two basic types of 1792 pattern cents.

We, all too often, amass significant collections of coins only to relegate them to the dark confines of a safe-deposit box until the time comes to sell them.

Demand was frantic back in the summer of 2014. Coins released during the first day of the 2014 ANA show were selling in excess of $3,000 days later.

The Philadelphia Mint struck more than 673.5 million 1983 quarter dollars, so what makes this one that sold by GreatCollections.com so special?

The new site features improved navigation, search capability, and user interface to help numismatists explore, learn, shop, and conduct research with ease.

A half dozen other major awards, honors and recognitions were also announced at the annual banquet.

The Mint posted on its website for download a full-color informational brochure detailing the production of the 1974-D Lincoln cent struck in aluminum.

Going through a U.S. Mint box of America the Beautiful Harpers Ferry 5-ounce coins, a reader found a couple of coins with some kind of doubling on the edge.

It looks like the U.S. Mint heard the concerns of its customers following the release of the gold "Mercury" dime and adjusted accordingly.

Author Allan Schein announces the release of his newest numismatic book, The $2½ & $5 Gold Indians of Bela Lyon Pratt.

Modern issues in top grades like this one continue to get the attention of collectors putting together grading service Registry Sets.