Commemorative coin programs need a fix, one columnist believes. Also this week, a reader questions the declining trend in the market for Peace dollars.

The ANA World’s Fair of Money is months away, but the auctions already have a star — the finest 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin will be offered by Stack‘s Bowers.

“The Colonial Newsletter” is folding but not going away. It will be reborn as the “Journal of Early American Numismatics” and have a wider focus.

The Proof version of the American Buffalo 1-ounce gold $50 coin for 2018 will become available for sale from the U.S. Mint at noon EDT on May 10.

This MS-63+ graded coin sold for just a bit under what an MS-64 example might bring. Was the premium for the hoard pedigree, or the MS-63+ grade?

At noon Eastern Time May 14, collectors can begin placing orders with the U.S. Mint for the 20-coin 2018 Uncirculated Coin set.

Snow and slush didn’t stop Stack’s Bowers Galleries from having a great set of auctions at the Baltimore show, where the firm sold $14.2 million in U.S. coins.

The new Mega Red is enhanced with 294 pages covering 845 varieties of U.S. dimes and 10-cent pieces of many kinds.

One of only two of its type, a gold so-called dollar medal for the Louisiana Purchase centennial expo highlights Stephen Album Rare Coins’ mid-May auction.

The 2018 Silver Proof set goes on sale April 24 — many collectors anticipate the familiar ritual of placing an order for one of the sets every year.

Identification of a fourth surviving 1854-S Coronet gold $5 half eagle is labeled the “discovery of a lifetime.”

World War I propaganda included coins and medals with wartime messages. Also in this issue, we take a look at a notes featuring scenes from American history.

A MS-66+ red 1914-D Lincoln cent and an MS-67 1916 Standing Liberty quarter dollar are two key dates of the early 20th century in an upcoming Legend auction.

An 1854-S Coronet $5 gold half eagle that the owner believed might be counterfeit is genuine, authenticated by NGC, and only the fourth known example.

This 1858 Seated Liberty half dime graded MS-68 has both an NGC star and a green CAC sticker, attesting to its tremendous appeal.

Once owned by Egyptian King Farouk, this pattern dollar by William Barber, graded Proof 62 red and brown, shows the influence of classical sculpture.

A grand jury in Minnesota returned a six-count criminal indictment April 10 charging 67-year-old coin dealer Barry Ron Skog with selling fake U.S. coins.

Now that the United States Mint has a real director, what will he do that changes the bureau and the collector customers it serves?

An April 11 launch ceremony for the 2018 Apostle Islands National Lakeshore quarter dollar drew a standing-room-only crowd to Red Cliff, Wisconsin.

Order cancellations for the five World War I silver medals are driving sales figures down. Deliveries of the medals are set to start in late May.

Brad Karoleff laments the changing nature of conversations at coin shows, which have veered toward incessant discussions of grade.

The United States Mint has its first director since 2011. David J. Ryder was administered the oath of office April 12 by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

One offering is not a product of the U.S. Mint: an 1849 $10 eagle pattern in copper, likely struck in France by French engraver Louis Charles Bouvet.

Among the most beautiful coins in Heritage’s March 29 sale was a 1928 Winged Liberty Head dime graded Mint State 67+ full bands by PCGS that sold for $9,600.

The April 21 sale features a silver 1652 Massachusetts Pine Tree, Large Planchet, No Pellets at Trunk shilling with a pre-sale estimate of $10,000 to $12,000.