The offered coin is one of just 36 graded MS-66 by PCGS, who has graded only two MS-66+ and none finer.

The 1885 Liberty Head 5-cent coin has a low survival rate; even problem-free, heavily circulated About Good examples cost about $200. This one is Mint State 67.

Also this week, although its low price makes counterfeit sales less profitable, the American Eagle silver bullion coin's popularity makes it a target.

The Proof 2018-W American Eagle silver dollar will be offered in three products in January. Shown is the 2017-W issue.

Two options for the Treasury secretary are spelled out in the legislation that authorized the America the Beautiful Quarters Program to continue beyond 2021.

Also this week, a recent Scotsman sale yielded some impressive Morgan dollars.

An 89-year-old Delaware woman has kept a treasure trove of coins stored in a box under her bed for decades.

One of the flashier lots was an 1892 World’s Columbian Exposition medal featuring a Liberty Head design that failed to meet its reserve.

At $900,000, this 1792 Silver Center cent pattern topped bidding at Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Nov. 9 Rarities Night sale.

As the 2017 coin show and auction calendar winds down, this impressive leather holder topped the $10,000 mark, and here's why.

Some 1,800 people converged on Vincennes, Indiana, Nov. 14, to attend the launch ceremony for the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park quarter dollar.

Major errors on Morgan dollars are rarely seen, which makes an off-center 1884-O Morgan dollar in Heritage’s December auction unusual.

The U.S. Mint will close out a number pf product lines at the end of 2017, but is offering customer a “last chance” to buy the coins, medals and sets.

A Proof 45 grade is proof that the 1900 Morgan dollar circulated, or maybe was someone’s pocket piece. Bidders liked it; the coin sold above estimate for $834.

A collector paid at auction five times the published value for a 1943-S Walking Liberty half dollar graded Professional Coin Grading Service Mint State 65.

Renowned numismatist Eric P. Newman, who once owned all five examples of the 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin at the same time, died Nov. 15 at age 106.

A 1982 Lincoln cent and cent blanks encased in acrylic are possibly employees’ souvenirs from when the Ball Corp. began supplying the Mint with cent planchets.

The Proof 68 coin is among the finest Proof dollars of the date known and Scotsman wrote, “One can scarcely envision it being a technically better example."

Court action brings SS Central America salvaged United States and pioneer gold coins, gold ingots, gold dust, and silver coins closer to marketing in 2018.

Also this week, we delve into some background of the blue security thread that appears in Series 2009 and later $100 notes.

The America the Beautiful quarter dollars struck for issuance in 2018 will exhibit a variety of finishes to be included in a number of numismatic products.

It is one of just four half dollars struck in April 1861 at the New Orleans Mint while the Branch Mint was under the physical control of the Confederacy.

The United States Mint's Holiday 2017 Product Guide includes many "last-chance" offers, some for products held in U.S. Mint inventory for years.

More than 10 million 1945-S Walking Liberty half dollars were minted. Nice MS-66 examples can cost less than $200, but only two in PCGS MS-67+ are certified.

The U.S. Mint is seeking public input through Nov. 30 concerning renewal of currently approved customer information collection.

The medals were awarded to eighth grade students, rewarding their essays on Civil Service Reform. The present medal is engraved to Charles Holt Gould.

An 1865-S Coronet gold $2.50 quarter eagle sold during an Oct. 29 GreatCollections auction for more than double its value listed in published price guides.

Unlike the famed 1893-S Morgan dollar, the 1893-O coin is not among rare Morgan dollars at the forefront of collectors’ minds.

Error collectors can easily distinguish between a brockage, a form of error that leaves an incused mirror image, and a contact mark, which is damage.

Most older books, including numismatic references, are accessible online. An ANS program considers what this means for book collectors.

A missing zero may have led to the failure of the 1891 silver coin design competition, as the paltry compensation offered failed to attract skilled artists.

The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition is known for its five commemorative coins, but it also offered artists opportunities to design many medals.

An example of what are considered the rarest of the space-flown silver Robbins medals is being offered in RR Auction’s November sale.

Two congressmen are seeking answers concerning efforts to stem the infiltration of counterfeit U.S. coins into the nation’s economy.

This silver medal by Hermon Atkins MacNeil was awarded to American photographer Arthur Hewett who was the official photographer of the exhibition.