Early holders from Professional Coin Grading Service attracted high bids in Legend’s early December Regency Auction 56, with early generation "rattler" holders well exceeding coin values.

The Numismatic Auctions LLC sale in January features high interest items not often seen in auction, including one of four gold medals struck for Civil War survivors nearly 100 years after the conflict.

Legend's recent Regency Auction included several coins in slabs from the early days of third-party coin grading, which, now recognized as rare, are items of desire for some collectors.

Hobby activity slows during the last days of 2022 in anticipation of renewed vigor at the FUN convention in Orlando and the 51st NYINC in New York City, both in early January 2023.

Readers this week found interest the future, with articles about 2023 coinage production underway in 2022 and new Bank of England notes using King Charles III's visage, plus auctions to come.

The first of four American Innovation dollars that will be released in 2023 will honor the Buckeye State as Ohio's chosen design will focus on the role of the state in the Underground Railroad system.

Images of the 2023-dated American Innovation dollars representing Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi now appear at the Mint website, where bags and rolls of the coins are offered.

On Oct. 26 to 29, 2023, Nashville's Music City Center will host the inaugural International Money Exposition, which Steven Ellsworth plans as an annual event under new Tennessee tax laws.

A December auction of over 500 lots of Civil War era tokens included one from toy merchant G.A. Schwarz and showed the collector market's high level of interest for rare examples of these private issues.

The Commission of Fine Arts and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee will review design proposals in January for a congressional gold medal for the Harlem Hellfighters of World War I.

A three-year loan of the congressional gold medal honoring the Nisei soldiers of World War II is being extended to allow the medal to remain on view at the National Museum of the United States Army.

Animal themes are popular among Civil War token designs, and a couple of pieces in Steve Hayden’s Dec. 11 sale depicted, separately, the head of a dog and a horse-headed sea monster.

Four accomplished musicians and performing artists were recognized Dec. 8 with a James Smithson Bicentennial Medal from the the Smithsonian Institution, for culture-changing impacts on American sound.

Walter Husak collected coins since his early teens, and one accomplishment was a nearly complete set of over 300 large cents that he sold in 2008. He passed away in California Dec. 15 at 80.

The December Heritage U.S. Coins Signature Auction included gold $10 eagles that were deemed impaired by third-party graders, but the coins were attractive to buyers despite the blemishes.

Steve Hayden’s Dec. 11 auction of Civil War tokens featured some rare varieties including an 1863 Patriotic Civil War Token struck over an 1843 Seated Liberty dime and graded MS-66 by NGC.

Maybe the most interesting aspect of 2022 is how normal it appeared. After several years of pandemic-caused cancellations and closures, public numismatic events returned in 2022.

The more than 50 Americans held captive in Iran for 444 days will be recognized with a congressional gold medal after President Joe Biden signs legislation recently passed by congress.

The 2023 Central States Numismatic Society convention features an expanded bourse and separate areas dedicated to dealer-to-dealer trading and lower-priced items for beginning collectors and young dealers.

Anticipation of 2023 products from the U.S. Mint ramps up, as subscription options opening to customers for the new year's American Eagle silver dollars and Kennedy half dollars are among top stories.