An 1879 Morgan quarter dollar pattern in silver was included in the recent Harry W. Bass Jr. Core Collection sale offered by Heritage and sold for $43,200.

Our issue date of Sept. 11 recalls that terrible day in 2001, when terrorist attacks killed thousands and changed the nation forever. Even the coin collecting community was changed.

Available spots fill quickly at the Numismatic Guaranty Company's contests held at major shows, where hobbyists test their skills at deciding the proper grades of coins and exonumia.

Elongated coins included in a 1981 reference work by Lee Martin and Dottie Dow will be permitted to be submitted to the Professional Coin Grading Service for authentication and grade.

Readers continued to find interest in the announcement of the upcoming sale of the Uncirculated 2023-W American Eagle palladium coin with error coins also among the top stories of the week.

The U.S. Mint will join with the National Women's History Museum to hold a launch ceremony at the University of Texas - San Antonio to commemorate the release of the Jovita Idar American Women quarter.

Release of the Proof 2023-S American Eagle 1-ounce .999 fine silver dollar for sale, priced at $80, begins at the U.S. Mint on Oct. 10 , and a household order limit of 25 coins will remain for 24 hours.

The Token and Medal Society issued several literary and membership awards to journal contributors and longtime members during the 2023 American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money.

Legend Rare Coin Auctions' Regency 60 sale held at the firm's New Jersey headquarters offered several half dollar beautie including a pair of coveted San Francisco Mint Walking Liberty half dollars.

The news that the United States Mint will be opening a special website where it will seek public comment on ways to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial in 2026 is welcome.

The lone palladium offering by the U.S. Mint expected for 2023 generated top interest as well as the continued stories surrounding the special "Director's Strike" 2023 Peace dollars.

The ANA received four lithographs featuring Kevin Lipton's recently acquired Saint-Gaudens "Victory" statue reduction, all signed by their artists, who have extensive history in coin design.

A U.S. Mint announcement of an upcoming public comment website joined the forums, club meetings, awards banquets, auctions and other events of a busy 2023 ANA World's Fair of Money.

A 1964 Lincoln cent on a copper-nickel dime planchet is a fascinating error, embodying the Mint’s 1964 transition from 90% silver dime planchets to the copper-nickel clad planchets used for 1965 dimes.

The Philadelphia Mint mark on the reverse indicates this was intended to be one of the wartime “silver nickels,” but this one was struck on a zinc-coated steel planchet for a 1943 Lincoln cent.

Some wrong planchet errors can be a little tricky to detect, like a 1943 Lincoln cent struck on a planchet intended for a Winged Liberty Head silver dime.

With the sales launch Aug. 8 for the United States Navy bronze medal, the U.S. Mint has now offered three different medals with the same designs celebrating Navy heritage.

The "first" Morgan dollar struck was intended as a presentation for President Rutherford B. Hayes; it survives to this day. Will history record the existence of the first 2023 Peace dollar?

Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered Indian peace medals at its June 13 Numismatic Americana and Early American Coins session

The Uncirculated 2023-W American Eagle palladium coin will go on sale from the United States Mint starting Sept. 7. It will be the only palladium coin to be released by the Mint in 2023.