The American Numismatic Association has awarded 2022 college scholarships to Elijah Hardwick and Jason Rackas. Each winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship to use toward tuition.

The Perfection Collection of Capped Bust half dollars will cross the auction block at Legend Rare Coin Auctions on Sept. 8 at its Regency Auction 54.

Collector support for a proposed 120-piece commemorative coin program in 2023 is completely lacking. Fortunately, the legislation has barely moved in the House of Representatives.

Enrollment is now available from the U.S. Mint for the Franklin Pierce Presidential silver medal, scheduled to be offered for $65 each when the Mint launches sales Oct. 3.

Readers continue to marvel over a 10-year-old collector's discovery of multiple examples of cud errors on 2022 Wilma Mankiller quarter dollars in the American Women quarters series.

Two 1848 Coronet, CAL. gold $2.50 quarter eagles, both graded About Uncirculated Details, that sold one after the other at Heritage’s July 14 auction in Dallas, brought quite different prices.

The U.S. Mint's first-day sales Aug. 16 for the Millard Fillmore Presidential 1-ounce .999 fine silver medal reached 11,960 pieces, with 8,808 of them from advance orders through the enrollment option.

At the 2022 ANA World’s Fair of Money, Women in Numismatics presented organization awards for its last time. Founded in 1991, the organization has met its goals and plans to dissolve Dec. 31, 2022.

The 78th Conference and Convention of the New England Numismatic Association will take place in New Hampshire in October, and the 2022 NENA medal has a windmill theme.

Ventris Gibson 40th director of the U.S. Mint, sees her personal core values of fairness, integrity, trust, accountability, credibility and transparency as a perfect match for the agency.

The U.S. Mint offer of 2017 American Liberty, High Relief, 225th Anniversary $100 coins with free bonus 2018 American Liberty tenth-ounce gold $10 coin was extended to Aug. 20.

Collectors of Colonial coins seek also the counterfeit pieces that co-circulated, and Stack's Bowers Galleries recently sold a newly discovered 1777 circulating counterfeit halfpenny with a rare die pairing.

A replica of an 1804 dollar, an uncertified electroplate example produced at the Philadelphia Mint around 1860 with a then state-of-the-art process, attracted $21,600 in a Heritage auction.

Openings on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee will need to be filled when several current members see their terms expire, and candidates are being sought for the positions.

After years of waiting, we will finally get a portrait of Harriet Tubman on legal tender U.S. currency. However, the portrait, or portraits, will first appear on three 2024 commemorative coins.

Spectacular Proof coins will be offered in the Stack's Bowers Galleries Rarities Night auctions including an 1825/4/1 Capped Head gold $5 half eagle, one of three known.

Heritage offered a 1714 Gloucester shilling that proved collectors are quite interested in rarity and historical value when considering collection needs, with this example bringing $90,000.

Legislation signed by President Biden authorizes the Treasury secretary to direct the U.S. Mint to strike Proof and Uncirculated coins in 2024 to help maintain the National World War II Memorial.

Sales totals for the two 2021 commemorative coin programs are available but not finalized by the U.S. Mint and information on distribution of the surcharges collected is not yet revealed.

A young Florida collector's find of a cud error on several examples of a 2022 coin created plenty of interest, and readers also reacted to the the U.S. Mint advertisement of a free coin with purchase.