Readers watched U.S. Mint activity, including its sale of older products to dealers, upcoming colorized coins and new product delays, while also keeping an eye on the circulating coin shortage.

Jeff and Chris speak with error coin expert Mike Diamond, discuss the coin shortage brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Chris shares a book about Robert Morris.

First-day sales for the Uncirculated 2020-W American Eagle silver dollar nearly reached 100,000 units, signalling an end to sales of the 2019-W coin.

The tokens of Lewis Feuchtwanger are highly collected and the an example of the Bavarian-born metallurgist's work was recently seen on the block at Stack's Bowers.

Fewer than a third of the available 75,000 limited-edition, special-finish 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame Kids sets, aimed at young collectors and scheduled for September delivery, have sold.

With the release of the United States’ first colorized coins a little more than a month from now, the nation will be joining the rest of the world.

The latest in the ANS series of Money Talks, "State Coinages of the Confederation, 1785-1788," will be presented by Ray Williams, live via video conference July 18.

An 1843 Seated Liberty quarter dollar, part of the Q. David Bowers collection and subject of an entry in a 2000 book about rare coins, realized $7,800 in a recent Stack's Bowers auction.

The ANA has opened classes, live first, then recorded versions, in the eLearning Academy to provide education opportunities in place of canceled physical coin shows and events.

The Stack's Bowers Galleries auction originally planned for the ANA World's Fair of Money will go on and feature the ESM Collection of United States Large Cents as a key attraction.

Unsold products from 2016 to 2018 in the U.S. Mint inventory have been offered to select bulk dealers via a sealed-bid auction, with thousands of gold and silver coins moved.

Half cents and other copper coins take center stage on the podcast this week. Jeff and Chris interview Bill Eckberg about his book on half cents and leadership of Early American Coppers (EAC).

The U.S. Mint's first foray into colorizing coins, examples of the half dollar and silver dollar coins in the 2020 National Basketball Hall of Fame program, will soon be available for purchase.

Seldom seem rarities from the 19th century drew spirited bidding attention in the Early American Coins and Numismatic Americana session at Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Santa Ana auctions.

Production chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic prompt altering plans for circulating the 2020-W Salt River Bay quarter dollars, and ditch special plans for all the 2020-W quarter dollars.

A coin shortage created by COVID-19 conditions continues to draw attention, as banks ration coins and merchants call for cashless transactions or exact change.

The U.S. Mint will soon offer a three-coin set featuring the U.S. Virgin Islands' Salt River Bay National Historical Park, in the America the Beautiful quarter dollar series, with coins from three Mints.

Low sales of the Eleanor Roosevelt, First Spouse gold $10 coin make it a key in the series, and a PCGS Proof 70 Deep Cameo example in a First Strike holder sold for over $2,000 in June.

The 2005 Kennedy half dollars had a unique distribution and a mintage in the millions, but one of the finest MS-69 examples as graded by PCGS brought home nearly $2,000 in a sale.

The Cent Project 2020, an effort launched by Lincoln cent specialist and dealer Charles Daughtrey, is a worthy project that needs volunteers in every state.