Details of the contract between the U.S. Mint and the firm colorizing the Basketball Hall of Fame coins indicate the possibility of future additional colorizing projects.

A collection considered to be among the top early U.S. colonial coins ever assembled will be sold in a pair of 2021 auctions, including the finest known example of the 1787 Brasher doubloon.

Increasing gold prices boosted interest in Stack’s Bowers’ Aug. 6 Las Vegas auction of a date run of original Coronet half eagles from a European bank hoard off the market for a century.

Auction companies adapted to cancellation of the 2020 World's Fair of Money, relocating their planned auctions, and buyers showed high interest in outstanding gold coins and large cents.

Proof strikings of the Roanoke Colonization 350th anniversary commemorative half dollar are unrecorded; this example merits the NGC Specimen 67 status and sold for $43,200 Aug. 4.

Collectors in Nevada and Arkansas were each the first to submit a 2020-W Salt River Bay quarter dollar to PCGS, the latest winners in the second year of the Quarter Quest.

Cents take center stage again on the Coin World Podcast as Jeff and Chris interview Chuck Daughtrey, owner of coppercoins.com and the founder of the Cent Project, an initiative dedicated to cataloging the number of cents in circulation and identifying varieties. They also talk about the release of Heads Up: Will We Stop Making Cents?

A 1922 Grant Memorial commemorative half dollar can be found in two different versions, but the one with the star is most desired, especially when it's a Specimen strike.

Online resources are making numismatic research easier than ever, making traditional libraries a little less relevant than in the past, at least at on some levels.

Commemorative half dollars were among stars of the recent Heritage Auctions Platinum Night, and a unique offering from the 1930s stood out as a pristine example of quality striking.

Two gold End of World War II 75th Anniversary coins have differing compositions, and price adjustments are likey for precious metals numismatic coins as metals prices advance.

Buyers of the Basketball Hall of Fame Kids sets are being pleasantly surprised by the early delivery of packages not expected until September tat has reportedly been delivered as early as Aug. 11.

The company under contract with the United States Mint to colorize the Basketball commemorative coins is no longer a mystery: a Massachusetts firm is identified.

There are no more Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S silver dollars left in the U.S. Mint's inventory as the latest sale lasted only 10 seconds when offered in the most recent sale.

In our top stories, readers watched a video announcement by the U.S. Mint about the coin shortage and also found interest in a sellout of the Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S American Eagle.

The United States Mint will offer the last of the Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S American Eagle silver dollars at noon ET on Aug. 12. Fewer than 100 are available.

Chris flies solo this week, interviewing Robert Wright, a financial historian and author of One Nation, Under Debt, Corporation Nation, and The Genealogy of American Finance. Their discussion centers on Revolutionary War finance.

Because the World's Fair of Money was canceled, the ANA will offer its annual awards celebration in a virtual ceremony Sept. 2.

“Monster” toned Morgan dollars remain in hot demand, and during the PCGS Members Only show auction, the coin pictured here blasted past its $2,500 to $3,000 estimate to $18,212.50.

The United States Mint's decision to offer unsold inventory of older precious metals coins angers collectors, who believe the decision violates their trust about product offerings.