Many consider Elizabeth Jones’ Nike a modern masterpiece, but not everyone. Both praises and criticisms of the coin are featured in our latest issue.

Extensive research points to the 1783 Nova Constellatio, Plain Obverse quint pattern as the first coin officially struck by authority of the U.S. government.

Rare Morgan dollars, some of them spectacularly toned, drew bidders during Legend Rare Coin Auctions’s Regency XXII auction in Las Vegas.

John F. Kennedy has been depicted on the half dollar since 1964 and is on a Presidential dollar. Congress is considering a Kennedy silver dollar for 2020.

SilverTowne founder and former Professional Numismatists Guild President Leon E. Hendrickson died July 23 at Summers Pointe Senior Living in Winchester, Ind.

An aluminum 1974-D Lincoln cent and 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagles in U.S. Mint custody will be displayed by the Mint Aug. 1 to 5 in Denver.

Selected Mint State and Proof Indian Head cents and type coins from The Sedona Collection brought strong prices in GreatCollections July 23 online sale.

The August Coin World Monthly edition, which mailed July 24, will also profile several artists behind many of America's paper money designs.

Collectors and dealers will have multiple ways to buy the 10-coin 2017-S 225th Anniversary Enhanced Uncirculated Coin set when it goes on sale Aug. 1.

Stack’s Bowers announced that, effective Aug. 14 with its Hong Kong Showcase Auction, it would be standardizing its buyer’s fee to 20% across all auctions.

With so many events and activities on the calendar for the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money, anyone attending is unlikely to become bored.

A previously unknown obverse die struck 1875 Seated Liberty 20-cent coins at the Philadelphia Mint in a newly identified die marriage.

George Washington rides horseback on one side; the other reads CARRY ME TO ATWOOD’S RAILROAD HOTEL. This NGC MS-63 brown example is unusually well preserved.

The Morgan dollar's wonderful designs were born on pattern coins for several denominations before going public on the dollar coin for circulation in 1878.

Hard Times tokens include privately issued cent-sized pieces struck from around 1832 to 1844, issued by merchants, this one from an engraver.

Of the 1806 Draped Bust, Knobbed 6, No Stem Through Claw half dollar variety, seven are known, two show a die break, and this is one of the two.

Most of the 188,039 1896-S Barber quarters entered circulation, and this PCGS AU-58+ example with a green CAC sticker is about the best “AU” example around.

The ANA World’s Fair of Money won’t be the only place where collectors can buy the 10-coin 2017-S 225th Anniversary Enhanced Uncirculated Coin Set in person.

Subtle design and relief modifications to the Jefferson 5-cent coin would be required to extend die life while striking on planchets composed of a harder alloy.

The U.S. Mint sold nearly 77 percent of the maximum mintage of 10,000 Proof 2017-W American Eagle platinum $100 coins during the first week of sales.

Also this week, there's a developing situation with the state of Texas and their gold reserves that are kept across state lines.

A new edition of “The Whitman Guide to Coin Collecting” by Kenneth E. Bressett, first published in 1999, was released on July 4.

It is from a low mintage of just 5,959 pieces, of which it is certainly one of the very finest known. It offered a rare second chance to acquire a Pogue coin.

More than half the maximum mintage of 10,000 Proof 2017-W American Eagle platinum $100 coins sold during the U.S. Mint's first day of sales July 6.

The June 22 to 25 Whitman Expo is the smallest of the three Whitman shows, but it yielded some heavy hitting coins, like a Proof 1864 Small Motto 2-cent piece.