Jeff and Chris speak with the sovereign ruler of Bermania, Allen Berman, a coin dealer and expert in Papal Coinage. They also discuss coinage from micronation, tiny, generally-unrecognized territories and look at an issue of Coin World from 1991.

Collectors will pay a solid premium for nice MS-62 coins that approach the MS-63 grade, as seen in this 1884-S Morgan dollar graded PCGS MS-62 with a green CAC sticker.

The 1795 Flowing Hair dollar has two distinct reverse varieties; Heritage offered a MS-62 Two Leaves example at its Feb. 20 to 23 Long Beach Expo auctions that sold for $75,000.

How can a coin not intended to circulate be placed into circulation in large numbers? Officials are still trying to work out the details.

Heritage’s Long Beach Expo auctions included several silver dollars that showed different aspects of the MS-62 grade, including the most expensive coin in the auction, an 1893-S Morgan dollar graded by NGC.

In anticipation of the fulfillment of a request from the state of Alaska to the U.S. Mint for 5 million 2020 Native American dollars to place into circulation in the state, two proponents of the measure have already begun circulating $1 coins on their own.

Three numismatic products associated with the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Program will be limited editions.

Columns this week include one of error coins that are struck together and remain together for longer than usual, and another about “Coin World’s” Sample Edition from March 1960.

News about a privy-marked American Eagle silver dollar, a genuine Continental dollar purchased for 56 cents, and design recommendations for two Bush coins were among the most-read articles of the past week.

Two contemporary counterfeits of the 1652 Pine Tree shilling, listed as Noe 13 and Noe 14, each sold for $1,320 at Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ offering of the Robert E. Martin Collection.

Collectors will be able to begin placing orders at noon Eastern Time March 19 with the U.S. Mint for the Proof 2020-W American Eagle gold coins.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Nov. 15, 2019, auction of the Robert M. Martin Collection offered this Small Planchet 1652 Pine Tree shilling graded PCGS EF-45, a perfect selection for a type collector.

Jeff and Chris speak with David Hendin, an expert in Ancient Jewish and Biblical coinage. They discuss Hendin's experience in publishing, his archaeological work, and his research on Biblical coinage.

For collectors drawn to Colonial American coins' handmade nature, the Robert M. Martin Collection of silver coins of the Massachusetts Bay Colony offered rich diversity at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Nov. 15, 2019, auction in Baltimore.

Collectors of ancient coins are right to be disappointed and concerned with the resolution of the years-long effort by the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild to test government regulations aimed at preventing the importation of ancient coins from certain countries.

The U.S. Mint will be using an outside contractor for applying color to the colorized versions of the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame silver dollar and copper-nickel clad half dollar.

At Kagin’s Inc.’s auction at the ANA National Money Show Feb. 27 to 29 in Atlanta, winning bidders have the option, for any lots graded by PCGS and NGC, of adding Coin World’s SmartTrack DNA tagging.

The 2020-W Reverse Proof 5-cent coin becomes available April 17, when sales begin for the 2020-S Silver Proof set, which the 2020-W 5-cent coins will accompany as a premium.

A tropical downpour in American Samoa wasn’t enough to dampen the spirits Feb. 13 of an estimated 800 people, including 500 schoolchildren, attending the U.S. Mint’s official launch ceremony for the 2020 National Park of American Samoa quarter dollar.

The U.S. Mint will be releasing two Proof coins May 8, including an American Eagle silver dollar with a privy mark, both to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of U.S. involvement in military action in Europe during World War II.