Coin World’s Steve Roach recently conducted an insightful video interview with PCGS officers, where they responded to reader questions.

We'll get a look at one of 2017's big United States Mint releases before 2016 wraps up.

Today, many coin buyers are not collectors at all. They do not acquire coins systematically to build sets. At the moment, the coin market is in a state of flux.

The term "Uncirculated" can mean different things to different collectors. Is it more about the condition of the coin, or its original intended purpose?

Campaign collectibles are trying to promote candidates amid all the mudslinging.

The USS Constitution Museum marked the Oct. 21 219th birthday of the USS Constitution by issuing a limited edition copper medallion.

The demographics of the U.S. Mint's customer base shows that in 2015 the percentage of customers aged 65 and older was nearly double that of 2006.

The 1983 Olympics dollar was offered in a three-coin “P-D-S set.” Of all modern commemoratives, it's the only one offered in such a set. Why is that?

Thousands of fake 1893-S Morgan dollars have found their way into the U.S. rare coin marketplace over the last few years. How can you identify them?

The election of 1932 put Democrat and former New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the White House for the first of his unprecedented four terms.

A $5,000 award will be presented by Kagin's to the winner of the firm's competition to design the cover for the firm's March 2017 auction catalog.

Collectors may now order as many sets as they want from what remains in the Mint’s inventory of the maximum authorization of 150,000 sets.

The 1912 presidential race featured President William Howard Taft, former President Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene V. Debs.

Political campaign items from the 1896 election include what are referred to as Bryan dollars — medals struck in silver professing Bryan’s monetary ideals.

The rare coin market is in a tentative state as collectors and dealers await the outcome of the presidential election and little is getting them excited.

Collectors covet rare holders from grading firms like PCGS and NGC, creating a market for unusual slabs.

The aspirations of “Honest Abe,” Abraham Lincoln, were not without their periodic acerbic exchanges with his opponent, an old rival.

The presidential election of 1800 pitted Vice President Thomas Jefferson against the president he was currently serving under, John Adams.

Ally Financial is raising awareness of the value of the coins in our change by giving everyone a reason to stop and pick up something most ignore.

So nasty were the personal attacks that one candidate blamed them for contributing to the death of his wife just days after he claimed victory.

Also this week, Q. David Bowers provided a how-to guide for intelligently buying coins, and we looked back at the history of the Walking Liberty half dollar.

As the election its the home stretch, a company has created some medals that may help with the decision making. They've done this before.

The photography skills of collectors and private sellers can vary from outstanding to abysmal. This makes some online error coin purchases a major gamble.

To understand why an MS-61 1860-S Seated Liberty quarter sold for more than $45,000 in a recent auction, you need to know a bit of U.S. coin history.

Demand is high for coins like the Washington quarter featuring "speckled russet-red and sea-green patina" that sold in a recent Heritage auction.

The 1926-D issues are known for being poorly struck, so whenever one like this crosses the block, you can expect a high price to be paid.

The Nov. 3 to 5 Whitman Baltimore Expo will feature exhibits from the Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) and Barber Coin Collectors Society (BCCS).

Mr. Hicks’ death came two days after the passing of his wife of 60 years, Marion L. Hicks, at age 82.

The designs used for United States coins were a problem dating from before the first federal coinage of 1792.

These days, coin buyers can be divided into two categories: (1) informed and aware of the nuances of the marketplace and (2) uninformed and don’t care.

Graded Extremely Fine 40 by NGC, it last sold at Heritage’s January 2015 Florida United Numismatists auction where it brought $470,000.

The reader did not have a wrong planchet error, but the coin he found in circulation is worth more than face value. An obverse image solved the mystery.

Assembling a set of circulation-strike Seated Liberty 20-cent coins is nearly impossible for almost every collector because of the rarity of the 1876-CC coin.

The set most notably contains one Reverse Proof 2016-S Ronald Reagan Presidential $1 coin, which the Mint is selling only as part of this set.

The U.S. Mint is considering a multi-piece American Liberty silver medal set, each piece having a different finish and struck at a different Mint.

Susan Maltby continues to review the results of the coin cleaning, toning and coating survey that appeared in an earlier 2016 issue of Coin World.

Also this week, the U.S. Mint announced the release date of the highly anticipated 2016-W Walking Liberty gold half dollar.

Weinman's Walking Liberty half dollar, which features one of the most beloved obverse designs, served the nation during two world wars and the Great Depression.

Business strike Morgan dollars with the contrast between frosted devices and mirrored fields that this one has can be characterized as Prooflike.

The Mint has set the 2016-W Walking Liberty Centennial gold half dollar’s mintage and household ordering limits but the price isn’t determined yet.

"The solitary coin nearest to qualifying as a presentation piece for the year," is how coin researcher Walter Breen described it.

The gold half dollar will the third coin to be issued in 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of 1916 coins introduced in .900 fine silver.

Legend’s auctions are well-known for offering some spectacular rainbow toned Morgan silver dollars and its most recent sale was no exception.

Mel Wacks has issued a limited number of counter­stamped 2016 Kennedy half dollars that celebrate the 400th anniversary of Bermuda’s Hogge money.

With millions of coins encased in plastic holders today bearing the grades MS-70 and Proof 70, some may question, “Why is this important or worth a mention?’’

Third-party graders offer precision of num­bers, guaranteed authenticity, and another advantage: a big label inside a nearly impenetrable hunk of plastic.

Colonial coins won't form a collection of perfect, lustrous gems, but their flaws sure reveal a great story about how they got here.

Grants to assist authors in publishing new references in four different collecting areas were recently awarded under the Central States Author Grants Program.

Scotsman will offer a blend of coins and jewelry — and some lots incorporating both — at its Collectors’ Auction in metropolitan Saint Louis.

Manufacturers of counterfeit Proof 2016-W American Eagle silver dollars, however, seem to be unaware of a pretty important detail.

Also this week, CoinWorld.com readers enjoyed a post about the mixed reviews collectors are giving the 30th Anniversary edge on the Proof silver Eagle.

In 1981, Leroy Van Allen found an 1879-S Morgan dollar with parallel gouges coming out of Liberty’s lower curls. Chris Simpson's found a later stage example.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries and Sotheby’s will present Part V of the D. Brent Pogue Collection of U.S. coins on March 31, 2017.

Though this Kennedy half dollar variety was discovered in the 1980s, relatively few examples have surfaced since. One recently sold at auction.

Since 2010 Diamond has tracked an array of misstruck 2000-P Virginia quarter dollars from one deranged press, finding a fifth error type in an eighth die stage.

Four-figure Kennedy half dollars aren't only among early issues; this newer strike brought a high price at a recent Heritage auction.

The book includes analysis of the mysterious 1964-D Peace dollar and provides the first ever photograph of the obverse die discovered in the Philadelphia Mint.

The auction catalog that illustrates the earliest known photograph of an 1804 Draped Bust dollar is for sale itself, and has a $1,000 estimate.

Collectors covet rare examples in top grades and spend substantial sums to acquire the finest examples.

United States and world gold coins that double as hosts for watch movements are among the lots offered in Heritage Auctions's Oct. 27 sale.

The co-founders of PCGS sat down with Steve Roach to talk about the firm's creation, the evolution of the coin grading landscape and the future of the hobby.

Collector Bob Carr hopes for a U.S. addition to his 779-item world collection of turtle coins, notes, and exonumia. The 2018 Cumberland Island coin might be it.